Human Rights Vocational Placement

POLI60502 Human Rights Vocational Placement 15 Semester 2 Postgraduate Taught Level 6 James Pattison Unit coordinator Politics 1 FHEQ level (Framework for Higher Education Qualifications) ' Masters/Integrated Masters P4 ' European Credit Transfer & Accumulation System Rating : 7.5 Content: 1. Induction 2. Vocational Placement 3. Essay Supervision from course tutor Content: 1. Induction 2. Vocational Placement 3. Essay Supervision from course tutor Aims: The course unit aims to provide students with the opportunity to work in and contribute to the practice of human rights. This is delivered by a vocational placement with Manchester-based organisations involved in a variety of practices of human rights. The placements will be organised by the course tutor. Students will be given the chance to work with human rights practitioners and/or marginalised groups within Manchester seeking to address human rights issues. The course unit aims to: - Deliver work experience relevant for employability within the human rights sector - Assist placement organisations with research, development, and delivery of community-based human rights projects - Examine concrete and specific human rights problems in Manchester - Show the implications of international human rights mechanisms in a local environment - Explore the relationship between theories and practices of human rights Learning Outcomes: On completion of this unit successful students will be able to demonstrate: - The ability to deliver the placement organisations' project requirements - The ability to deploy research skills as required by the placement organisations' project - A contribution to the development of the placement organisations' aims - The ability to relate aspects of international human rights norms to specific and localised human rights issues - The ability to relate theoretical issues to concrete practices of community-based human rights projects in Manchester This course will utilise interactive learning and teaching strategies. Students will be expected to take part in a variety of the placement organisations' activities as required. The course tutor will be involved in supervision of the students' essays. Assessment will be both formative and summative. Formative assessment will be provided in terms of supervisory meetings with the course tutor, and formally through essay feedback. There will be two summative assessments. Placement project leaders will award a pass or fail determined by the students' satisfactory delivery of the projects requirements. The other will be in the form of one 4500 word essay. The essay will provide students with the opportunity to study an area relevant to the human rights project of their placement organisation. 2 Written assignment (inc essay) 100% N <ul> <li> Brown, Chris (2002). Sovereignty, Rights and Justice: International Political Theory Today (Cambridge: Polity Press).</li> <li> Dickinson, Rob, Elena Katselli, Colin Murray, and Ole W. Pedersen (eds) (2012). Examining Critical Perspectives on Human Rights (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).</li> <li> Donnelly, Jack (2003). Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice, Second Edition (Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press).</li> <li> Dunne, Timothy and Nicholas Wheeler (eds) (1999). Human Rights in Global Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).</li> <li> Forsythe, David (2006). Human Rights in International Relations, Second Edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).</li> <li> Goodhart, Michael (ed.) (2009). Human Rights: Politics and Practice (Oxford: Oxford University Press)</li> <li> Haas, Michael (2008). International Human Rights: A Comprehensive Introduction (New York: Routledge).</li> <li> Mertus, Julie A. (2005). The United Nations and Human Rights: A Guide for a New Era, First Edition (London: Routledge).</li> <li> Nickel, James W. (1987). Making Sense of Human Rights: Philosophical Reflections on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (Berkeley & London: University of California Press).</li> <li> Shue, Henry (1980). Basic Rights: Subsistence, Affluence, and U. S. Foreign Policy (Princeton: Princeton University Press)</li> <li> Steiner, Henry J., Philip Alston, and Ryan Goodman (eds) (2008). International Human Rights in Context, Third Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).</li> <li> Smith, Rhoda (2010). Textbook on International Human Rights, Fourth Edition (Oxford: Oxford University Press).</li></ul> Seminars 2 Placement 13 135 PLEASE NOTE: THIS MODULE IS ONLY AVAILABLE TO STUDENTS TAKING THE  HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMMESTimetable Weeks 1 & 8 only Tuesday 13.00-15.00 - Weeks 2-7 in placement