ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology of Conflict*
Examination of events and institutions associated with large-scale or ongoing conflict in variety of settings. Particular consideration to roots of violence, violent manifestations and cross-cultural misunderstandings, and nature and content of armed confrontation.
(UCLA, Anthropology 256)

Contemporary Issues in South Asia
Uses film, novels, ethnographies and popular journalism to explore a variety of issues in post-independence South Asia. Topics such as environmental, feminist, and human rights movements; communalism; mass media; and South Asian diaspora, youth culture and development may be covered.
(UC Santa Barbara, Anthropology 142B)

Gender, War, and Militarism
Examines politics of militarization in relation to gender, race, and sexuality in national and international contexts of war. Explores ideologies and representations of masculinity and femininity in discourses of militarism. Topics include war crimes; contestations over historical memory; effects of militarization on gender roles; cults of heroism; and peace activism.
(UC Riverside, Anthropology 179)

Health and Culture in Americas*
Health issues throughout Americas, especially indigenous/Mestizo Latin American populations. Holistic approach covering politics, economics, history, geography, human rights, maternal/child health, culture.
(UCLA, Anthropology M266)

Human Environmental Rights
Introduction to human environmental rights. Examines the expansion of human rights to include human environmental rights, abuses of human environmental rights, associated social conflicts, and emergent social movements including environmental justice and transnational advocacy networks.
(UC Santa Barbara, Anthropology 185)

Human Rights II: Contemporary Issues
Interdisciplinary discussion that outlines the structure and functioning of the contemporary human rights regime, and then delves into the relationship between selected human rights protections—against genocide, torture, enslavement, political persecution, etc.—and their violation, from the early Cold War to the present.
(UC San Diego, Anthropology: Sociocultural 140)

Indigenous Activism in the Americas
Focusing on the contemporary struggles of Indigenous peoples for rights; self-determination; social, political, and environmental justice and/or increased nation-state participation. Examines how the mobilization of indigenous peoples is strengthened through regional, hemispheric and global solidarities; and how international law, media, and technology support indigenous actions for change.
(UC Merced, Anthropology 116)

Law, Violence, and Human Rights*
Examines how adequately law and liberal theories of the state recognize, explain, and delegitimize political violence, particularly the violence committed by states. Addresses theories of the state within which human rights law is embedded, the ethnographics of violence, the legal use of force.
(UC Irvine, Anthropology 246D)

Sexualities and Culture
Examines the field of sexuality studies using a comparative, cross-cultural approach. Emphasizes the relation between culture, history, and political economy in the emergence of sexual practices and sexualized identities. Examines theories of sexuality and identity, with particular attention to violence, human rights, and political agency.
(UC Riverside, Anthropology 145)

Warfare and Conflict
Examination of conflict and violent confrontation as these have been treated in anthropological literature. Cross-cultural comparison of institutions such as raids, feuds, ritual warfare. Consideration of application of anthropology to study of militaries, modern warfare, and large-scale ethnic conflict.
(UCLA, Anthropology 159)


EDUCATION

Language and Identity
Relationship between language as social practice and the construction of individual and collective identity, and its significance in educational contexts. Topics covered include: language as embodied practice; language and subjectivity; pedagogy and symbolic control; language learning as mediated action and as the social symbolic construction of identity; writing and textual identity; authorship and voice; language learning memoirs as acts of identity; the politics of recognition; linguistic human rights.
(UC Berkeley, Education 250D)


ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
 
Human Environmental Rights
Introduction to human environmental rights. Examines the expansion of human rights to include human environmental rights, abuses of human environmental rights, associated social conflicts, and emergent social movements including environmental justice and transnational advocacy networks.
(UC Santa Barbara, Environmental Studies 185)

International Rural Development Policy
Comparative analysis of policy systems governing natural resource development in the rural Third World. Emphasis on organization and function of agricultural and mineral development, with particular consideration of rural hunger, resource availability, technology, and patterns of international aid.
(UC Berkeley, Environmental Science, Policy, and Management 165)

Water and Development*
This class is an interdisciplinary graduate seminar for students of water policy in developing countries. It is not a seminar on theories and practices of development through the “lens” of water. Rather, it is a seminar motivated by the fact that over one-billion people in developing countries have no access to safe drinking water, three-billion don’t have sanitation facilities and many millions of small farmers do not have reliable water supplies to ensure a healthy crop. Readings and discussions will cover: the problems of water access and use in developing countries; the potential for technological, social, and economic solutions to these problems; the role of institutions in access to water and sanitation; and the pitfalls of and assumptions behind some of today’s popular “solutions.”
(UC Berkeley, Energy and Resources Group 275)


ETHNIC STUDIES

Ethnohistory of Native People of Mexico and Central America
Ethnohistorical development of pre-colonial, colonial, post-colonial Mexican and Central American indigenous people; the impact of economic and political factors on the process of cultural adaptation. Attention is given to the questions of nation-building, forced assimilation, indigenous resistance, organized political responses.
(UC Davis, Native American Studies 133)

Ethnopolitics of South American Indians
Social, political, cultural movements of indigenous South Americans in response to establishment, expansion of European colonialism, post-colonial nation-states. Ethnopolitical processes developed through interactions between Indians, Euroamericans. Socioethnographic analysis of main indigenous areas and the development of national societies.
(UC Davis, Native American Studies 120)

Human Rights in Americas
International human rights law and U.S. foreign policy in context of historical, political, social, and legal issues and court decisions involving U.S. and its role and relations with governments and institutions throughout Americas. Historical and contemporary development of regional and international law, institutions, law, and norms related to promotion and protection of human rights.
(UCLA, Chicana and Chicano Studies 151)

Slavery and African American Life Before 1865
This course will examine the origins of the African slave trade, and explore political, economic, demographic and cultural factors shaping African American life and culture prior to 1865.
(UC Berkeley, African and African American Studies 116)

The U.S. Role in Central America
A critical examination of the role played by the United States in Central America from the 19th century to the present. The focus will be on trends in U.S. policy, including an assessment of current policy alternatives in Nicaragua, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and the impact of those policies on Latinos in the United States.
(UC Berkeley, Chicano Studies 162)

War, Race, and Violence*
This course critically examines theories and research on war, race, and violence, including everyday forms of state violence, war and the making of empire, the politics of war memory, and war refugees.
(UC San Diego, Ethnic Studies 264)


HEALTH

Health and Human Rights*
The course examines the origins of health and human rights concerns and outlines a conceptual basis for human rights among health professionals. It provides an overview of the epidemiology of human rights violations worldwide and an analysis of the psychology of abuse. The course considers the role of health professionals in: (1) documenting the health and social consequences of human rights violations and war; (2) treating survivors of abuse; (3) addressing specific human rights concerns of women and children; (4) identifying the impact of health policy on human rights; and (5) participating in human rights education and advocacy. The course will also examine issues of universality of human rights and cultural relativism and the role of accountability for the past abuses in prevention.
(UC Berkeley, Public Health 211)

Immigrant Health*
Overview of key topics in public health for documented and undocumented immigrants and refugees in U.S. Demographics, health status, behavioral risk factors, and social determinants, health and human rights, and access to healthcare and prevention services. Analysis of public policy across topics. Builds skills necessary to develop integrated approach to health of immigrant populations.
(UCLA, Community Health Sciences 205)

Intentional Disasters: War and Refugees*
Overview of intentional disasters, with focus on technically underdeveloped areas and consequent population migration. Principal focus on health consequences of these events and strategies to address health issues.
(UCLA, Community Health Sciences 254)

Violence, Social Justice, and Public Health
This course addresses violence as a public health issue, using an interdisciplinary public health approach to enable undergraduate students to explore and analyze violence from personal, social, community, and political perspectives. Beginning with individual experiences of violence and its impact, the course will go on to focus on gender-and race-based violence, firearms, poverty, youth, and collective violence; students will learn to apply public health strategies to identify causes of violence and develop practical community-based plans to prevent violence and promote safety.
(UC Berkeley, Public Health 107)


HISTORY

The African Slave Trade
History of the African slave trades, from the early Egyptian and Saharan trades in the pre-modern period to the trans-Atlantic trade (15th-19th century) and the contemporary trafficking of humans.
(UC Davis, History 115E)

Death Penalty Global Perspectives Since 1492
From early modern witches, rebels, and heretics to hyper-modern gangsters, terrorists, and serial killers, applying capital punishment to foreign nationals and ethnic minorities has sustained a global conversation about the sanctity of human life and the meaning of citizenship in the Americas and Europe.
(UC San Diego, History: Topics 166)

Dictatorships in Latin America
How did dictatorships come about? Who were the authoritarian leaders? How did they organize their regimes and what were the consequences? Recent publications on dictators in Latin America allow for comparisons across countries and throughout time to answer those questions.
(UC San Diego, History: Latin America 114)

El Salvador and the United States: Human Rights and Revolution
From coffee boom through rebellion, militarization, revolution, state terrorism, and migration, the U.S. has loomed large in the history of El Salvador. This course explores this relationship from 1920 to the present through the prisms of revolution and human rights.
(UC San Diego, History: Latin America 116)

Human Rights I: History and Theory
Explores where human rights come from and what they mean by integrating them into a history of modern society, from the Conquest of the Americas and the origins of the Enlightenment, to the Holocaust and the contemporary human rights regime.
(UC San Diego, History: Topics 119)

International Law—War Crimes and Genocide
Comparative study of genocide and war crimes, stressing European developments since 1900 with reference to cases elsewhere. Topics include historical precedents; evolving legal concepts; and enforcement mechanisms. Emphasis on the Holocaust, the USSR under Stalin, ex-Yugoslavia, and the Armenian genocide.
(UC San Diego, History: Topics 134)

Latin America in the Twentieth Century
This course surveys the history of the region by focusing on two interrelated phenomena: the absence of democracy in most nations and the region’s economic dependence on more advanced countries, especially the United States. Among the topics discussed will be the Mexican Revolution, the military in politics, labor movements, the wars in Central America, liberation theology, and the current debt crisis.
(UC San Diego, History: Latin America 102)

Latin American Revolutions – Twentieth Century
Analyzes the leading revolutions of the twentieth century in Latin America to explore issues of citizenship, human rights, and ethnic minorities in the region. Highlights the importance of women and peasants in the making of the Mexican, Cuban, Bolivian, and Nicaraguan revolution.
(UC Santa Barbara, History 151R)

Palestine, Zionism, and Evolution of Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Examination of origins of Arab-Israeli dispute from mid-19th century through founding of state of Israel and expulsion/flight of three quarters of million Palestinians from their homes. Exploration of social history of Palestine up to Zionist colonization, origins of Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, varieties of Zionism, Zionism and colonialism, seminal events and their consequent symbolic connotations “Great Revolt” and 1948 nakba (disaster), construction of national consensus in Israel, 1967 and its aftermath, intifada, and redefinition of conflict as result of Oslo. Honors Collegium 2 Comparative Genocide Social comparative study of genocide, combining theoretical concepts with case studies (such as Armenia, the Holocaust, American Indians, Uganda under Amin and Obote, etc.).
(UCLA, History 109B)

Revolution in Modern Latin America
A political, economic, and social examination of the causes and consequences of the Mexican, Cuban, and Nicaraguan revolutions. Also examine guerrilla movements that failed to gain power in their respective countries, namely the Shinning Path in Peru, FARC in Colombia, and the Zapatistas in Mexico.
(UC San Diego, History: Latin America 103)

Serbia, Bosnia, and Kosovo: The Contemporary Crisis and Its Historical Roots
Explores historical precedents for the current Yugoslav crisis. Examines the tragic events of the 1990s and South Slavic history from the Ottoman conquest to World War II. Focus is on the national histories and mythologies of Serbs, Bosnians, and Albanians.
(UC Riverside, History: Europe 176)

Topics in International Conflicts
A study of international conflicts from military, social, economic perspectives with a focus on the preparation for and conduct of war and the consequences.
(UC Irvine, History 103)


INTERDISCIPLINARY PROGRAMS

Feminist Theory and the Law*
Interrogation of the relationship between law and its instantiating gendered categories, supported by feminist, queer, Marxist, critical race, and postcolonial theories. Topics include hypostasization of legal categories, the contest between domestic and international human rights frameworks, overlapping civil and communal codes, cultural explanations in the law, the law as text and archive, testimony and legal subjectivity.
(UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness 212)

The Globalization of Rights, Values, and Laws in the 21st Century
This interdisciplinary course is an introduction to the complex interplay of transnational values, international rights and legal institutions that increasingly govern social, cultural and geopolitical interactions in our contemporary world. Theoretical and methodological tools from the social sciences, jurisprudence, and philosophy will be applied in the analyses of these interplays. A study of rights and norms presupposes not only an understanding of the empirical evolution of rights traditions (including constitutional traditions) in a variety of global regions, but also an understanding of the theories of rights and laws that support such traditions as they are embedded in them (just war theories, peace theories, etc.). The study of rights and norms also requires an exploration of the transformations of crucial international norms and rights due to the formation of supranational institutions and organizations in the 20th century (UN, UNESCO, GO’s, etc.). The course will provide the students with an opportunity to place emerging transnational rights institutions into a historical and geopolitical framework.
(UC Berkeley, Interdisciplinary Studies 100E)

Third World Feminisms and Globalizations*
Studies third world feminist theories and struggles and their relations to globalization; topics include nationalism, development, transnational practices, identity politics, human rights, especially the ways in which Third World feminisms respond and contribute to political, economic, social, and cultural transformations.
(UC Santa Cruz, History of Consciousness 232A)


INTERNATIONAL AND AREA STUDIES

Colombia: Sociedad y política
Taught in Spanish. Overview of contemporary Colombian politics and society in historical and institutional context, with an interdisciplinary approach to the causes and consequences of political violence. Special focus on agrarian and ethnic conflict. Enrollment restricted to junior and senior Latin American and Latino studies majors.
(UC Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies 194B)

Gender, the Nation, and Latina Cinema
Applies theories of transnational feminism, decolonization, and globalization to the study of Latina cinematic representation in the Americas. Focusing on Latina image making, course explores representations of race, sexuality, and the nation; citizenship, diaspora, and belonging; gender-based violence and racialized state violence; militarization, human rights, and global justice.
(UC Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies 176)

Global Culture and Ethics
Explores connections over the last century between global cultural developments and the quest for normative values on a global level. Topics include the communications revolution, cultural ideologies, international migrations and diasporas, the human rights movement, and new cosmopolitanisms.
(UC Santa Barbara, Global and International Studies 110)

Human Rights in World Affairs
Examination of the U.N. declaration of human rights as a universal "sacred text," and the responses to it from Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu, Christian, Jewish, and secular philosphic traditions.
(UC Santa Barbara, Global and International Studies 111)

Latin America: The Quest for Development and Democracy
A comparative examination of central issues in and components of Latin American political life, including economic development, regimes and alliances, guerrilla wars, the armed forces, human rights, and democratic consolidation. Countries studied include Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, and Cuba.
(UC Riverside, Latin American Studies 142)

Power and Resistance in the Americas: Cross-Border Social Movements
Focuses on politics of power and resistance regarding major cross-border issues facing Latin Americans and Latinos in the 21st century. Emphasizes migration and migrant organizing; neoliberal "free trade" and implications for labor; organizing by women's, indigenous, and ecological movements; and for democracy and human rights. Many specific cases drawn from binational Central American experiences.
(UC Santa Cruz, Latin American and Latino Studies 80C)


LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

Contemporary Arab Film and Song
Exploration of conjunctions between contemporary Arab film and song and between popular cultures and cultures of commitment (Iltizam), with possible focus on specific genres such as realist/neorealist Arab film; feminist Arab film or popular Arab film and song; topics such as nation, gender, and representation or democracy and human rights or censorship, reception, and resistance. Possible examination of various national cinemas such as Tunisian, Egyptian, Moroccan, Algerian, and Palestinian. Various musical genres such as Rai, Mizoued, and Hip-hop also examined in relation to emergence not only of national cinemas, national music industries, and iconic singers but also of video clip, satellite TV, star academy, and reality shows — all products of transnational and pan-Arab mass media.
(UCLA, Comparative Literature M148)

Diasporas and Exiles in the Hispanic World
Concentration on literary works of political exiles from oppressive regimes (e.g. Spain’s Franco, Portugal’s Salazar) and 1970s and 1980s South American dictatorships. Focus on diasporas produced by economic constraints in the U.S., Latin America and Spain. Strong interdisciplinary approach in examining of cases and ideas. Course is conducted in Spanish.
(UC Merced, Literatures and Cultures 159)

Global Humanities: The Politics and Poetics of Witnessing
What do literature and critical theory contribute to the reflection on human rights and the analysis of their violation? Inquiry into different ways in which the humanities can reframe the debate on human rights and act as a social force.
(UC Santa Barbara, Comparative Literature 36)

Holocaust Discourse
Legal, visual, historical, cultural discourses and debates that contribute to represent the Holocaust as a coherent and cohesive event, and as a touchstone of moral and political discourse in the U.S., entailing powerful stories about pluralism, tolerance, democracy, human rights, and justice.
(UC San Diego, Communication and Culture 142)

Justice, Law, Violence
An introduction to the concepts of justice, law, and violence through literary and philosophical texts. Raises fundamental questions of individual human existence within the social collective. Topics include natural right, freedom of will, sacrifice, revolution, gender, and power.
(UC Riverside, Comparative and World Literature 28)

Topics in Violence and Visual Culture
This course focuses on the critical study of representations of violence, such as war, genocide, sexual violence, and crime, across a range of media, including literature, film, photography, and other forms of visual culture.
(UC San Diego, Literature/Cultural Studies 173)

Torture: Theory, History, Practice
An investigation into the history of torture from classical antiquity to Amnesty International. Discussions focus on its interrelations with literature, law, art history, gender, and violence in the media. Guest lecturers, as available.
(UC Santa Barbara, French 154D)

Trauma, Memory, Historiography
How do individuals, communities, cultures, nations remember and/or forget, preserve and/or erase, traumatic events?
(UC Santa Barbara, Comparative Literature 113)


LAW

Advanced Comparative Law Seminar
This seminar is designed to acquaint the student with the basic institutions and policies in legal systems adhering to continental European legal traditions (so-called civil law countries), with emphasis on judicial organization, the scope of judicial power, and the protection of civil and human rights.
(UC Berkeley)

Anti-Terrorism and Criminal Enforcement
This course addresses the legal aspects of the U.S. government's "war" on terrorism. It examines the crimes and special approaches to criminal procedure (including bases for extended detention and special rules of investigation) that are being used in that effort that differ from much of ordinary criminal process. Problems of legality, constitutionality, application and the appropriateness of using particular policy approaches are addressed. The main emphasis is on U.S. domestic law, not on the use of international adjudicative process or international agencies. The course plays off of the tension between a criminal or law enforcement approach, on the one hand, and a wartime, military basis, on the other. The goal of the course is to examine how much and to what extent the steps taken by the government in this "war" may take away from us elements of our traditional civil liberties. A casebook containing the relevant recent cases, statutes and other materials is used in the course.
(UCLA, Law 369)

Capital Punishment and the Constitution
The course offers an overview of the constitutional law governing the death penalty. After an initial look at the history of capital punishment and the arguments for and against the death penalty, the course will consider the following topics: early challenges to the death penalty; different statutory attempts to enact constitutional death penalty schemes; execution of offenders who commit non-homicide crimes and who are felony murder accomplices, juveniles, mentally retarded, insane or possibly innocent; jury selection in capital cases; the effect of race on capital sentencing; the roles of the defendant, defense counsel, the prosecutor, and the trial judge; the procedural requisites and evidentiary limits for capital sentencing trials; penalty trial instructions and arguments; state and federal post-conviction review of capital sentences; clemency proceedings and execution; and international standards regarding capital punishment. The course is designed both for students generally wishing to learn more about the death penalty and students considering the practice of criminal law. Although only criminal law is required for the course, knowledge of criminal procedure would be helpful.

The casebook is Rivkind & Shatz, Cases and Materials on the Death Penalty (West Publishing 2001). The course offers guest speakers, video documentaries, an optional visit to a capital trial or an appellate argument in a death penalty case, and, if possible, an optional tour of San Quentin State Prison, which houses California’s death row for men.
(UC Berkeley)

Capital Punishment Seminar
This seminar’s primary objective is to provide the student with a basic understanding of the procedures and limits governing the imposition of the death penalty. The course will begin with the development of general constitutional issues and principles and then concentrate on specific topics that frequently arise in capital punishment cases: the selection of death qualified jurors, admission of evidence at the sentencing phase, proper sentencing procedures, and the pursuit of appellate and habeas corpus relief. Course materials will emphasize federal constitutional law and focus primarily on United States Supreme Court decisions.
(UC Hastings, Law 770)

Death Penalty Seminar
Offers overview of the constitutional law governing the death penalty in the United States.
(UC Davis, Law 245B)

International Criminal Law
This course provides a general introduction to individual criminal responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity. We will study the creation, operation, and jurisprudence of the post-World War II tribunals (Tokyo and Nuremberg), the two ad hoc international criminal tribunals (Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda), and the International Criminal Court. We will consider issues related to the definition of crimes, jurisdiction, theories of liability, defenses, and rules of procedure and evidence. We will also look at attempts by national courts to invoke universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes, and at the evolution of hybrid tribunals that combine features of national and international courts.
(UC Hastings, Law 221)

International Development Law and Policy
This course explores legal issues, institutions and strategies pertaining to international development, examining efforts to strengthen foreign legal systems through such devices as improved judicial administration, alternative dispute resolution and legal aid. Emphasis is placed on substantive legal issues pertaining to human rights, the status of women, the environment and economic reform. The seminar focuses substantially, though not exclusively, on Asia.
(UC Berkeley)

International Environmental Law
This seminar examines the role of law in the management of the international environment. Consideration is given to international environmental treaties; the role of the international Court of Justice in identifying and establishing international environmental law; international regulation of private conduct that affects the environment; and the effects of international trade, financial institutions, human rights and armed conflict on the environment.
(UC Berkeley)

International Human Rights
This course provides an introduction to human rights law, policy and institutions and the use of these mechanisms for protecting and promoting human rights. In addition to the focus on core human rights issues, the course will analyze cutting edge legal developments in human rights and the environment, globalization, and corporate responsibility. Students will gain an understanding of the legal norms and procedures in the human rights field, and the activities of nongovernmental organizations in the United Nations system. Students will have the unique opportunity to develop their research for presentation to the U.N. Human Rights Commission.
(UC Berkeley)

International Human Rights
This course examines laws, theories, and institutions relating to international human rights.
(UC Davis, Law 248B)

International Human Rights
This course is an introduction to the law and institutional mechanisms for the international protection of human rights. It examines briefly the theory and the history of the field, together with key United Nations documents. International treaty and non-treaty mechanisms for protecting and promoting human rights, including regional systems and the role of non-governmental organizations, are covered. We will also address the use of international human rights standards in United States courts. Discussions will then focus on specific contemporary human rights problems, which may include the prevention of torture and disappearances, the use of criminal and civil sanctions, and minority and indigenous peoples rights. We will pay special attention to the role of corporate actors in human rights issues, to international criminal tribunals and accountability for human rights violations, and to environmental and development rights.
(UC Hastings, Law 417)

International Human Rights Law
This course serves as a basic introduction to International Human Rights law. International Human Rights has become one of the most influential and also controversial fields of jurisprudence. We will seek to become well acquainted with every significant aspect of this critical field including its history, theory, and practice. We will start off by focusing on the historical origins, philosophical foundations and the emergence of the concept of humanitarian law. Eventually, the topics covered in the course will include the United Nations world system and United Nations Charter, the major international and regional human rights conventions and other related legal instruments, the mechanisms for the implementation and reporting of human rights practices, the main international bodies and organizations, including NGOs, dedicated to the enforcement and upholding of human rights standards, the various generation of rights including political, civil, economic, and cultural rights, and remedies for human rights violations including the use of force and humanitarian intervention. A significant portion of the course will be dedicated to discussing the most controversial aspects of International Human Rights law such as the universalism versus relativism debate, cultural and religious exceptions to global human rights standards, hypocrisy and double standards in human rights enforcement and implementation, critiques of Western human rights schemes, the war on terrorism, and the use of torture.
(UCLA, Law 273)

International Human Rights: Law, Policy, and Process
The seminar introduces the law and institutional mechanisms for the international protection of human rights, emphasizing international treaty and nontreaty mechanisms for protecting and promoting human rights, including regional systems and the role of nongovernmental organizations. The use of international rights standards in the United States is also addressed.
(UC Berkeley)

International War Crimes Prosecution Seminar
This is a seminar on the prosecution of war crimes. Over the last decade, there has been an explosion of war crimes prosecution, with multiple tribunals prosecuting war crimes that happened in the former Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, and Iraq. American prosecutors are and will continue to be involved in many of these tribunals. This course will focus on the legal and practical issues that arise when prosecuting these complex and challenging cases.
(UC Hastings, Law 733)

National Security Law
This course examines international law and U.S. domestic law relevant to the handling of national security matters. Much of the course focuses on international law governing the use of military force and conflict management. On the domestic level, we will study the allocation of power under the Constitution between Congress and the President with respect to war powers and other national security issues and we will assess the role of the courts as a check on the political branches in this area, particularly as it relates to ongoing efforts to fight terrorism. Domestic statutory authority, including the War Powers Resolution, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and the Military Commissions Act, will be covered as well. On the international level, we will review the lawfulness of the use of military force in several illustrative cases and assess key problems in international humanitarian law/the law of war presented by the ongoing conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan and by operations against transnational and subnational terrorist networks. We will consider such specific topics as war crimes, the question of unlawful combatants, the treatment of prisoners of war, and the protection of civilian persons in time of war. Special attention will also be given to the U.N. Charter and the institutional framework for collective efforts to maintain international peace and security, including peacekeeping operations and enforcement actions. As we look at various challenges presented by new weapons technologies, the course concludes by examining several key disarmament and arms control issues, focusing on efforts to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons.
(UCLA, Law 269)

Native American Law
Legal relations between Native American tribes and the federal and state governments. Topics include the basic jurisdictional conflicts, which dominate this area of law and cover specific areas such as land rights, hunting and fishing rights, water rights, domestic relations law, and environmental protection. Religious freedom, repatriation. Issues regarding terminated and non-recognized tribes are also addressed.
(UC Davis, Law 277)

Public International Law
This course is a broad introductory survey of international law as understood and practiced in the United States. Our goal is to understand how international law affects U.S. policy-makers, and how it is applied by U.S. courts. Topics include the sources of international law, the U.N. Charter, the process of settling international disputes, the role of foreign states and foreign law in U.S. Courts, the exercise of extraterritorial and universal jurisdiction by U.S. courts, human rights, the use of force, war powers of the president and congress, and the development of international environmental norms.
(UC Hastings, Law 535)

Public International Law
Public international law is the body of law that governs relations between states in the international system and, increasingly, regulates the treatment of individuals and corporations by states. The scope and importance of public international has expanded dramatically in the last century, as a result of acceleration in global trade – and the vast growth of international communications and transportation attendant to it; the escalation of international armed conflict; rapid deterioration of the environment across the globe; and increased international awareness of large-scale human rights violations. With the advent of the global war on terror and the unfolding global financial crisis, public international law is continuing to expand to meet new challenges.

This course will serve as a basic introduction to the rules, procedures, institutions and actors that are involved in the development, enforcement and adjudication of public international law. We will cover the nature and sources of international law; the role and influence of states, non-governmental organizations and international organizations; the law of treaties; customary international law; jurisdiction and immunities; state responsibility; the law governing the use of force; international dispute resolution; and the role of the United Nations and of international judicial bodies. In addition, the course will survey specific fields within international law such as human rights, law of the sea, international criminal law, international environmental law and trade and investment law. The overview of the international legal system offered in the course will have an emphasis on current challenges and pressures including those posed by global warming, international terrorism and increased economic and financial globalization.
(UCLA, Law 270)

Refugee & Human Rights Clinic
Students will work 16-20 hours per week on projects involving refugee and human rights issues, and will have a unique opportunity to develop a range of skills relevant to legal advocacy in these areas. In the refugee area, there will be the opportunity to engage in the direct representation of asylum seekers, and to do policy and community education work on these issues. Human rights work may involve fact-finding and report writing, collaborative projects with other non-governmental organizations, and advocacy at regional human rights bodies, such as the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. A number of the projects may be in partnership with the law school’s Center for Gender and Refugee Studies (CGRS). CGRS is one of the nation's leading refugee advocacy organizations, engaging in research, national policy work, impact litigation, and other strategies in defense of asylum seekers.
(UC Hastings, Law 931/932)

Refugee Law
This course examines the root causes of refugee flight and the existing international norms that address human rights abuses and civil strife. Using both an international and a domestic law perspective, students examine the responsibility of nations to accept refugees. The course includes an in-depth examination of refugee law doctrine in the United States, with particular focus on the assessment of individual claims for asylum status.
(UC Berkeley)

Refugee Law & Policy
This course focuses on law and policy issues in the determination of refugee status. Refugee law has its origins in international treaties dating to the post-World War II period. This course begins with an examination of the international origins of refugee law, and the significance of international norms in its development. It will examine the relevance of these international norms in the context of such controversial policies as the interdiction and return of asylum seekers, and other measures which prevent or limit access of asylum seekers to the territory of the country of asylum. The course closely explores the meaning of the terms persecution, the various grounds on which persecution may be feared; namely political opinion, religion, race, nationality of membership in a particular social group. Particular attention will be paid to the developing jurisprudence of gender-based claims for asylum, and claims based upon sexual orientation. The course also addresses practical aspects of refugee representation, including the impact of psychological trauma and cross-cultural communication on the adjudication of asylum claims.
(UC Hastings, Law 428)

Refugee Law Seminar
Focus on the law concerning the admission of refugees into the United States. Detailed study of the Refugee Act of 1980, which is the major piece of legislation dealing with refugee admission, the international law that fueled the passage of the Act, and the various regulations promulgated by the Attorney General implementing the law. Analysis of the implementation of the Refugee Act and examination of some criticisms of the immigration bureaucracy’s implementation of the law. Some topical issues of refugee law, such as gender-based persecution, persecution based on the exercise of reproductive rights, and the persecution of lesbians and gay men.
(UC Davis, Law 233)

Reparation for Injustices: Domestic & International Seminar
In the wake of injustice, armed conflict or human rights violations, survivors often demand reparations for harm. In an increasing number of cases, states respond. This seminar considers a number of instances where reparations for past injustice have been made or proposed to groups and individuals (we will touch on but not focus on inter-state reparations), and a number of instances where reparations were proposed but never implemented. Such reparations will include not only monetary payments to individuals, but other measures designed to address historical injustice. From these experiences we will seek to draw general lessons as to both what the law is and what it should be. We will look at examples including reparations for the Holocaust, post-dictatorship reparations in Latin America and South Africa, the case of indigenous peoples in the U.S. and elsewhere, Japanese Americans interned during World War II, and African-Americans for slavery and Jim Crow. We will combine consideration of U.S., international and comparative law and policy.
(UC Hastings, Law 773)

Seminar: International Human Rights Colloquium
This course begins with a lecture on alternative approaches to understanding international human rights law. Legal, political, sociological, and economic perspectives will be considered. These lectures will be followed by weekly presentations on the topic by eleven leading human rights scholars from the United States and abroad. All lectures will be open to the University community, but course enrollment is limited to thirty law students and ten senior undergraduate students from other departments; students will be admitted on a first-come, first-served basis. Course requirements: attendance and a two-page critique of each of the papers presented by guest lecturers. No final exam; no term paper. Because student demand for the course is expected to be high and enrollment is limited, no student will be permitted to drop this course after enrolling in it.
(UCLA, Law 523)

Seminar: Laws of War and the War(s) on Terror
The subset of international law relating to the conduct of war – known as international humanitarian law (IHL) or the law of armed conflict – plays a prominent role in contemporary debates about law and political violence across the world from Colombia to Sri Lanka, from Afghanistan to Guantánamo Bay. The institutions, discourses and practices associated with IHL help shape contemporary debates about the use of force, provide a powerful language of legitimacy and de-legitimization, and structure decisions that may have crucial effects on international order and international human rights.

This seminar has two goals: first, to provide a basic introduction to IHL and second to explore some of the recurring and seemingly intractable problems that arise in the contemporary theory and practice of IHL, particularly in the post-September 11th context. Topics covered will include: international principles and rules governing the conduct of international and other armed conflict; the complementary nature of IHL and human rights law; the protections afforded by the 1949 Geneva Conventions and the 1977 Protocols to combatants and noncombatants, including civilians and POWs; the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross; key decisions of international bodies regarding accountability for violations of IHL; and the transformation of the theory and practice of IHL under the pressure of (the) contemporary war(s) on terror. A background in or familiarity with public international law and/or international human rights is helpful, but not necessary, to participate in the seminar.
(UCLA, Law 566)

Seminar: Trafficking and Human Rights
Human trafficking represents a troubling side effect of globalization, encompassing forced labor and the illicit trade in people across borders. This interdisciplinary course will review and critically assess a diverse literature on the international traffic in persons with an emphasis on the significance of the sociological, legal, and gender aspects of trafficking. We focus primarily on trafficking for sex work and the problematically blurred lines between the discourse on the commercial sex trade and trafficking, while also looking at issues such as the role of political and economic transition, militarization, the health implications of trafficking, trafficking for nonsexual labor, and the role of advocacy. We draw from a variety of sources, including academic scholarship, domestic and international laws, and governmental and NGO reports. This interdisciplinary course is open to ten law students and ten graduate students.
(UCLA, Law M577)

Transnational Criminal Law
Will examine the laws responses to a particular aspect of globalization, transnational crime. The course will explore the phenomenon of transnationality and how it affects the power of nation-states, acting alone or together, to prosecute certain crimes.
(UC Davis, Law 213A)


LEGAL STUDIES

The Death Penalty
Examines why the U.S. continues to have a death penalty when so many other countries have abandoned it. Arguments for and against the death penalty are covered.
(UC Irvine, Criminology, Law and Society C165)

Human Rights
Explores the history and development of human rights law, debates over the meaning of human rights, and the influence of human rights on social movements and political struggles.
(UC Santa Barbara, Law and Society 162)

International Human Rights
International human rights are at the forefront of national and international dialogue. These discussions reflect the evolution of human rights from declaratory statements to rights enforceable in courts. Using historic documents, timely current articles, and a new international human rights document being drafted at Berkeley, we will learn about the recognition of human rights, existing institutions to protect human rights, and look forward to the future of human rights.
(UC Berkeley, Legal Studies 154)

International Law
Origins and development of international law: international law is examined both as a reflection of the present world order and as a basis for transformation. Topics include jurisdiction and sovereignty, treaties, use of force, commercial law, and human rights.
(UC Santa Cruz, Legal Studies 173)

International Law and Global Justice
Examines war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the evolution and role of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Examines the evolution of the concept of international law, the rationale for its birth and existence, roots of international conflicts and genocides, possible remedies available to victims, mechanisms for the creation and enforcement of international legal order, as well as the role of colonialism, migration, poverty, race/ethnic conflicts, gender, and international corporations in creating and maintaining conflicts and wars.
(UC Santa Cruz, Legal Studies 128M)

Law and the Latin American/Caribbean Region
Examines legal regimes, criminal justice systems, and human rights politics in Latin America and the Caribbean.
(UC Santa Barbara, Law and Society 167)

Torture and Law*
Overview of legal issues and debates relating to torture, beginning with historical, philosophical and global perspectives on the laws and practices of torture, and ending with a survey of some of the literatures generated in response to post-9/11.
(UC Santa Barbara, Law and Society 258)

War Crimes
Explores complex international human rights/humanitarian law issues surrounding genocide and other mass violence, beginning with the Nuremberg trials following World War II up to recent atrocities in Rwanda, Bosnia, and elsewhere. Covers basic legal framework of human rights law, examines specific situations on a case by case basis, and discusses what options the international community, the nations themselves, and individuals have in the wake of such catastrophes. Enrollment restricted to legal studies majors during priority period.
(UC Santa Cruz, Legal Studies 139)


PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES

Human Rights and American Cultures
The course analyzes the theory and practice of human rights for three groupings in the United States and examines questions of race and ethnicity as they are embedded in various international human rights instruments. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of developing systems, laws, and norms for the promotion and protection of human rights while considering each group’s underlying political, literary, and cultural traditions.
(UC Berkeley, Peace and Conflict Studies 128AC)

Human Rights and Global Politics
After World War II, we witnessed a “revolution” in human rights theory, practice, and institution building. The implications of viewing indi viduals as equal and endowed with certain rights is potentially far reaching as in the declaration that individuals hold many of those rights irrespective of the views of their government. Yet, we also live in a world of sovereign states with sovereign state’s rights. We see everyday a clash between the rights of the individual and lack of duty to fulfill those rights when an individual’s home state is unwilling or unable to do so. After introducing the idea of human rights, its historic development and various international human rights mechanisms, this course will ask what post-World War II conceptions of human rights mean for a number of specific issues including humanitarian intervention, international criminal justice, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, and economic rights. Looking in-depth at these five areas, we will ask how ideas about human rights, laws about human rights, and institutions to protect human rights have on how states and other global actors act, and how individuals have fared.
(UC Berkeley, Peace and Conflict Studies 127)

International Human Rights
This course provides an overview to the historical, theoretical, political, and legal underpinnings that have shaped and continue to shape the development of human rights. Students are introduced to substantive topics within human rights and provided an opportunity to develop critical thinking, oral presentation, and writing skills. We discuss where the concept of human rights originates, how these ideas have been memorialized in international declarations and treaties, how they develop over time, and how they are enforced and monitored. We examine a variety of issues and encourage students to think differently—to analyze world and community events through a human rights framework utilizing some of the necessary tools to investigate, research, and think critically about human rights and the roles that we may assume within this arena. The course requires two six-page papers, participation in a team debate, and an independent reading assignment.
(UC Berkeley, Peace and Conflict Studies 126)

Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
This course introduces students to a broad range of issues, concepts, and approaches integral to the study of peace and conflict. Subject areas include: the war system and war prevention, conflict resolution and nonviolence, human rights and social justice, development and environmental sustainability.
(UC Berkeley, Peace and Conflict Studies 10)


POLITICAL SCIENCE

The Armed Forces and Politics
An introduction to the origins, nature, and behavior of the military within political systems. Focuses on the political interaction between the armed forces and civilians. Topics include military intervention, democracy, human rights, missions, defense organizations, and civilian control. Explores case studies of the United States, Russia, and countries from Latin America and Asia.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 159)

Causes of International Conflict
Investigation of the causes of international conflict and war, the conduct of war, its ultimate termination and the possibility of its prevention.
(UC Merced, Political Science 150)

Democratization, Citizenship, and Human Rights in South America
Examines military regimes, transitions to civilian rule, and politics of democratization in contemporary Brazil, Argentina, and Chile. Focus on the contradictions and legacies of transition politics, the challenges of democratizing political institutions, and the political and social consequences of neoliberalism. Emphasis on human rights, citizens' movements (especially feminisms), changing dynamics of civil society, and contemporary efforts to deepen democracy and extend meaningful citizenship to subaltern social groups and classes.
(UC Santa Cruz, Politics 150)

Ethical Issues in International Relations
An examination of the possibility and desirability of normative international political theory and an exploration of the moral dimensions of statecraft; use of force, nuclear deterrence, humanitarian intervention, distributive justice, and human rights.
(UC Santa Barbara, Political Science 119)

Ethics and International Politics*
Examines ethical debates in the field of international politics. Topics include just war theory, humanitarian aid, military intervention, international justice and human rights, aggression, peacekeeping, and global inequality.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 267)

Ethics and Justice in International Affairs
Should nations intervene in other countries to prevent human rights abuses or famine? On what principles should immigration be based? Should wealthy states aid poorer states, and if so, how much? Who should pay for global environmental damage? Answers to these moral questions depend to a great degree on who we believe we have an obligation to: Ourselves? Nationals of our country? Residents of our country? Everyone in the world equally? We will examine different traditions of moral thought including skeptics, communitarians, cosmopolitans, and use these traditions as tools to make reasoned judgments about difficult moral problems in world politics.
(UC Berkeley, Political Science 124C)

Ethnic Self-Determination and International Conflict
Compares the claims of the state and ethnic peoples in countries undergoing internal conflicts, e.g., South Africa, Northern Ireland. Analyzes the role of the international community in facilitating the peaceful resolution of conflicts.
(UC Davis, Political Science 126)

Human Rights
Examines the causes and consequences of human rights violations with a focus on Latin America. What are human rights? When and where are they violated? What political mechanisms are available to deal with human rights problems? How effective are they?
(UC Irvine, Political Science 153E)

Human Rights*
Surveys the primary theoretical and empirical issues in the study of human rights. Explores major themes and contemporary topics, including, but not limited to, cultural relativism, the evolution of the human rights regime, and the impact of globalization, domestic, and international institutions.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 268)

Human Rights and Foreign Policy
Analyzes theories, patterns, and cases of human rights foreign policy. How do countries pursue the values and standards of human rights in their foreign relations? How does the U.S. fit into worldwide trends? Examines U.S. behavior and international human rights.
(UC Irvine, Political Science 142H)

Human Rights in Theory, Law, and Politics
An introduction to the theory, politics, and law of human rights. Examines the emergence of human rights institutions since World War II and ongoing dilemmas in the field. Topics include cultural relativism, criminal tribunals, truth commissions, and refugees.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 150)

International Law
This course is an introduction to public international law for students of international relations. The primary purpose of this course is to enhance students’ understanding of the ways in which international law orders international politics. How and to what extent has it been used in resolving conflicts between nations? How and to what extent has it facilitated the achievement of common goals? What is the relationship between international law and states’ foreign policies? Emphasis throughout the course is on the substantive rules of the law, the relationship between law and politics, and on historical episodes that illustrate the issues. Substantive areas include international human rights, international trade law, and international law and the use of force.
(UC Berkeley, Political Science 127A)

International Law
Examination of the origin, changing structure, and application of international law, and the role of legal norms in regulating the behavior of states and maintaining international order. The use of force, pacific settlement of disputes among nations, human rights, international terrorism.
(UC Irvine, Political Science 172A)

International Law
Origins and development of international law: international law is examined both as a reflection of the present world order and as a basis for transformation. Topics include jurisdiction and sovereignty, treaties, use of force, commercial law, and human rights.
(UC Santa Cruz, Politics 173)

International Law and Organizations
International law and organizations are central to the efforts to create a world order to limit armed conflict, regulate world economy, and advance programs for economic redistribution among nations, and set minimum standards of human rights. This course explains the theory of international law and organizations that is accepted by diplomats and compares this viewpoint to the analysis of social scientists concerning the past record and likely future of world order concerning conflict, economic redistribution, and human rights.
(UC San Diego, Political Science: International Relations 140A)

International Law and the U.S. Legal System
Explores how international law and U.S. law interact, focusing on recent cases and controversies. Topics include: treaty and customary law as U.S. law; international human rights litigation in U.S. courts; war powers; detentions in the war on terror; and torture.
(UC Irvine, Political Science 172B)

The International Relations of East Asia
Surveys various aspects of relations between the nations of East Asia. Topics include historical development of the region; current political and security relations, including the impact of the American military presence; other issues such as economic relations and human rights.
(UC Irvine, Political Science 142B)

Issues in International Law
Explores theory and reality of international law; how it determines or governs or modifies policies of government. Emphasis on contemporary political and economic forces and international law in nuclear age, competing areas for new law, law of seas, human rights, new international economic issues, the environment.
(UC Santa Cruz, Politics 190G)

Modern Dictatorships
Considers how dictatorships from such countries as Germany, Cambodia, Chile, Argentina, and Iraq came to power; how they abused that power; what contributed to their successes; and why some met with defeat.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 157)

Politics of Africa: Issues in Contemporary African Politics
Examination of the main issues in African politics since the end of the Cold War. Topics include: Strategic Security Approach, Democratization, Human Rights, HIV/AIDS, African Peacekeeping, Terrorism, Religious and Ethnic Conflict, Debt and Stalled Development.
(UC Davis, Political Science 146A)

The Politics of Displacement
Antebellum American political history generally follows a routine script in which the purpose of the Revolution was to liberate Americans for self-government and economic and social development. Slavery is viewed as an anomaly still needing explanation, and Native American relocation as the consequence of natural forces of immigration and premodern social values. In this class, the revolution against traditional political authority embodied in Jefferson’s and Thomas Paine’s attack on the British crown, the rise of slavery, and the conflict with Native America are seen as coherent parts of a cultural and social development that emerges in the 18th- and 19th-century America. Using both original antebellum materials, including biographies, history, and literature, and contemporary images from American popular culture such as film, news and magazine articles, and music, we will compare and contrast the experiences of antebellum Native Americans, European immigrants, and African slaves as a connection between the past and the present emerges.
(UC Berkeley, Political Science 111AC)

Politics of Religion
Considers both the religious sources of political ideas and the political sources of religious ideas, addressing topics such as sovereignty, justice, love, reason, revelation, sacrifice, victimhood, evil, racism, rebellion, reconciliation, and human rights.
(UC Santa Cruz, Politics 7)

Politics of the Underdeveloped World
An introduction to the political processes and problems confronting third-world states. Topics include poverty, violence, dictatorship, civil-military relations, regime transitions, and democracy.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 17)

Problems in Latin American Politics
Research seminar allows advanced students to engage in current scholarly debates in the sub-field of Latin American politics. Topics and countries covered vary from year to year but may include civil society, citizenship and cultural politics in Latin/o America, comparative perspectives on democratization, politics and culture in Brazil, feminisms and women's movements in Latin America, the politics of race and ethnicity in the Americas, and human rights and social justice in a neoliberal era.
(UC Santa Cruz, Politics 190V)

Security, Conflict, Violence, War
Genesis and theories of conflict and war and their avoidance (past, present, future). Relationship between foreign policy and intra- and interstate conflict and violence. National security and the security dilemma. Non-violent conflict as a normal part of politics; violent conflict as anti-political; transformation of conflict into social and interstate violence. Interrelationships among conduct of war, attainment of political objectives, and the end of hostilities. Civil and ethnic wars. Political economy of violence and war.
(UC Santa Cruz, Politics 160C)

Terrorism and Political Violence
Explores the nature and origin of political conflict, violence, and rebellion. Examines political violence as a political pathology and as an instrument of supporters and opponents of regimes. Examines types of political violence: terrorism, ethnic and communal conflict, rebellion, and revolutionary and counter-revolutionary violence.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 169)

U.S. Foreign Policy Toward Asia
U.S. policy toward the countries of East Asia: bilateral and regional security relationships, U.S. economic relations with the major Asian countries, the development of regional institutions, and human rights.
(UC Irvine, Political Science 141E)

War!
The nature and causes of war; the relationship of politics to war in history; historical varieties of strategic doctrine; the implementing of strategy; the endings of war.
(UC Berkeley, Political Science 124A)

Women and Politics
Introduction to rapidly growing body of empirical and theoretical scholarship on women and politics in both national and international contexts. Topics may include women’s movement in the U.S. and globally; women’s electoral participation; representation of women in Congress and in legislatures worldwide; women as heads of government and state; feminist critiques of political science; women and human rights; ERA; struggle for suffrage; mothers as political actors; women and the military; women, development, and globalization.
(UCLA, Political Science M107)

World Politics
Explores approaches to and models of international relations: theories, the causes of war, international organizations, cooperation and conflict, international political economy, regional economic agreements, and international social issues such as human rights and the environment.
(UC Riverside, Political Science 20)


PSYCHOLOGY

Children and War
Examine development and behavioral ecology of children affected by war. Discuss development of displaced children, abandoned children, orphaned children, children living in protracted conflict, and child soldiers. Review child protection strategies and psychosocial intervention.
(UC Santa Cruz, Psychology 118A)


RELIGIOUS STUDIES

Human Rights
Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the origins, evolution, denial and protection of human rights.
(UC Davis, Religious Studies 90)

Human Rights as a Moral Discourse*
Inquiry into the moral and ethical dimensions of philosophical, religious, legal, and historical traditions of “rights-talk.” Attention paid to conceptual, historical, cross-cultural, and case-study source materials.
(UC Riverside, Religious Studies 222)

Introduction to Islamic Law
The development of Islamic law in the formative centuries of Islam, ca. 600-1000, as well as its adaptation to changing economic, social, and political conditions in subsequent periods. Legal schools, legal theory, the Shari’a, reformist movements, human rights.
(UC Davis, Religious Studies 162)

Iraq
Origins, causes and ethical challenges of conditions in Iraq; larger historical, cultural and ethical dimensions of mass violence, war, liberation, neocolonialism, terrorism and resistance.
(UC Davis, Religious Studies 167)

Religion and Human Rights
An examination of selected human rights struggles with particular attention given to the role of religion. Case examples are taken from North and Latin America, South Africa, South Asia, or China, among others.
(UC Riverside, Religious Studies 175)


SCIENCE AND SOCIETY

Terrorism and War
Exploration of terrorism and war from science and social sciences perspectives. Terrorist cells and groups; biological, chemical, nuclear, and environmental terrorism; intelligence gathering and espionage; military strategy; genocide; epochal wars; clash of civilizations; nation building; and future global scenarios.
(UC Davis, Science and Society 7)


SOCIOLOGY

Children Through History: Social Practices and Social Welfare
This course brings together the methods of historical analysis and the problems faced by social welfare professionals to create a new and provocative examination of children and childhood in America. Topics covered will include childbirth and infancy, children’s rights, learning, and the state of the superparent. A significant research paper is required.
(UC Berkeley, Social Welfare C129)

Human Rights: Practices and Cases
An investigation into human rights practices in contemporary society, focusing on abuses and understanding both their causes and responses to them. We will look at several key cases, probably including the Islamic world and East Asia.
(UC San Diego, Sociology 111F)

Human Rights: Principles and Problems
An inquiry into the concept of human rights, the history of human rights in the twentieth century, and problems in both the concept and its implementation in modern societies.
(UC San Diego, Sociology 111E)

International Law and Global Justice
Examines war crimes, crimes against humanity, and the evolution and role of the International Criminal Court (ICC). Examines the evolution of the concept of international law, the rationale for its birth and existence, roots of international conflicts and genocides, possible remedies available to victims, mechanisms for the creation and enforcement of international legal order, as well as the role of colonialism, migration, poverty, race/ethnic conflicts, gender, and international corporations in creating and maintaining conflicts and wars.
(UC Santa Cruz, Sociology 128M)

U.S. War on Terror
Analyzes the United States war on terrorism by focusing on terrorism, the U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and changes in police powers throughout the Patriot Act, as well as the political leadership which directs the war.
(UC Irvine, Sociology 170B)

Undergraduate Seminar: War and Society
Study of relationship between society’s military and its social organization in general, with particular attention to shock-based civic militarism characteristic of the West. Topics include honor, discipline, bureaucracy, conscription, logistics, total war, guerilla war, terrorism, and counterinsurgency. Reading, discussion, and development of culminating project.
(UCLA, Sociology 191T)


WOMEN AND GENDER STUDIES

Culture and Politics of Human Rights*
Examines the role of feminist activism and jurisprudence in the expansion of human rights since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Addresses challenges of accommodating women's specificity within international human rights law. Focus on application of international and regional human rights conventions and new human rights standards.
(UC Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies 240)

Ethnographies of Transnational Feminisms
Examines recent approaches to the ethonographic representation of transnationalism as both a conscious strategy for feminist alliance and as a condition of global political economy. Topics covered include feminist anthropology, non-governmental organizations, human and reproductive rights, and international peace movements.
(UC Santa Cruz, Feminist Studies 116)

Feminisms, Race, and Antiracisms: Critical Theories and Intersectional Perspectives
Examines how path-breaking scholarship by women of color in the United States and in developing countries has been central to rethinking theoretical foundations and to new ways of knowing, understanding, and practicing politics. Focuses on scholarship that critiques and analyzes issues concerning race, antiracism, human rights, citizenship, empire, globalization, and social justice.
(UC Riverside, Women's Studies 107)

Gender and the Sex Trade
Addresses structural issues related to sexualized entertainment, including pornography, sex work, escort services, sex tourism, erotic dancing, and strip shows. Discusses how gender, race, class, citizenship, and sexuality shape the stratification of the industry. Analyzes how issues such as HIV/AIDS, traffic in women, forced prostitution, and child prostitution impact the sex trade and people working in this industry.
(UC Riverside, Women's Studies 138)

Gender, Human Rights, and Transnationalism
Explores dynamics of gender and power in human rights activism. Examines the history and evolution of human rights discourse, discourses of liberation, and critical responses to the strategy of framing women’s rights as human rights in a comparative, transnational framework.
(UC Riverside, Women's Studies 176)

Militarism and Gender
Feminist approach to militarism, war, and political violence drawing on representations of women as both victims of and participants in military violence; effects of militarism on formations of gender; effects of military industrial complex on nationalism and identity.
(UC Irvine, Women's Studies 167A)

Sexual Traffic
Interdisciplinary approaches to understanding the concept of "sexual traffic" as it impacts the formation of sexualized bodies and sexual subjects within and across national boundaries.
(UC Irvine, Women's Studies 167B)

Violence against Women
Addresses structural and interpersonal forms of violence against women and girls. Topics include sexual and physical abuse, rape and sexual assault, battering, body mutilation, forced sterilization or reproduction, sex selection, medical “silences,” political torture, and gender-specific socialization for victimization and aggression. Also discusses state and economic policies.
(UC Riverside, Women's Studies 30)

Women, Gender, and Law: Jurisprudence of Sexual Equality
Exploration of models of equality described and/or advocated by legal theorists primarily in the U.S. — equality of opportunity, equality of outcome, equality of respect, etc. — using specific problems of women (e.g., sexual harassment, pregnancy leave policy, access to safe and effective reproductive control technologies) for purposes of comparison and critique. Specific focus may vary by instructor (e.g., consideration of sexual equality theories to issues of gender equity, legal status of women in countries outside the U.S. or from perspectives of international human rights).
(UCLA, Women's Studies 171A)

Women’s Movement in Latin America
Course on women’s movements and feminism in Latin America and Caribbean to examine diverse social movements and locations from which women have launched political and gender struggles. Discussion of forms of feminism and women’s consciousness that have emerged out of indigenous rights movements, environmental struggles, labor movements, Christian-based communities, peasant and rural organizing, and new social movements that are concerned with race, sexuality, feminism, and human rights. Through comparative study of women’s movements in diversity of political systems as well as national and transnational arenas, students gain understanding of historical contexts and political conditions that give rise to women’s resistance, as well as major debates in field of study.
(UCLA, Women's Studies M144)


OTHER

International Affairs and Global Issues
Examines inter-related global issues: Colonialism and post-colonialism, trade, poverty, globalization, geopolitics, human rights, and the environment. Students choose a particular region on which to focus.
(UC Santa Cruz, College Eight 20B)

Introduction to University Discourse: International and Global Issues
Explores rhetorical principles and conventions of university discourse and provides intensive practice in analytical writing, critical reading, and speaking. Topics address contemporary global issues including economic globalization, human rights, international and inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.
(UC Santa Cruz, College Nine 80A)

Making Prometheus Speak: Myth and Torture
A close reading of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound together with legal and historical documents relating to the "torture debate" in the U.S. This ancient text is the basis for thinking about the political, legal, and moral justifications that inform the current debate.
(UC Santa Cruz, Cowell College 164)

Rhetoric and Inquiry: International and Global Issues
Explores the intersection of investigation, interpretation, and persuasion and refines strategies for writing, research, and speaking. Topics address contemporary global issues including economic globalization, human rights, international and inter-ethnic conflicts, poverty, and immigration.
(UC Santa Cruz, College Nine 80B)

Violence Against Women in Cross-Cultural Perspectives
Exploration of sources of violent acts against women in different societies. Topics include wife beating, female sexual slavery, female infanticide, dowry deaths, female genital “circumcision,” rape, and emerging global human rights responses to these issues.
(UCLA, Honors Collegium 122)

War and Peace in Africa
Investigation into main causes and forms of warfare on African continent, including relationship between internal war and transborder conflict, historic ethnic antagonism, competition for control of natural resources, and hostilities precipitated by militarism.
(UCLA, Honors Collegium 123)