604.741.81
Human Rights in Humanitarian Emergencies

Discontinued

Location
Internet
Term
3rd Term
Department
MAS Office
Credit(s)
2
Academic Year
2024 - 2025
Instruction Method
Asynchronous Online
Auditors Allowed
No
Available to Undergraduate
No
Grading Restriction
Letter Grade or Pass/Fail
Course Instructor(s)
W. Courtland Robinson
Contact Name
William Robinson
Frequency Schedule
Every Year
Prerequisite

Introduction to Online Learning

Description
Humanitarian emergencies often occur in the context of widespread human rights abuse. Humanitarian actors, whether researchers or practitioners, must have an understanding of human rights laws and policies, as well as training in how to work in environments where human rights and ethical conduct are challenged.
Introduces human rights as an analytical framework, a tool, and a source of ethical guidance in humanitarian emergencies. Focuses on how human rights violations may cause, and shape the context of, humanitarian emergencies and how an examination of human rights frameworks and rights-based programs can guide researchers and practitioners to make ethical decisions in their work.
Learning Objectives
Upon successfully completing this course, students will be able to:
  1. Identify the relationships between international human rights and humanitarian health practice
  2. Describe how violations of human rights affect health of populations in emergencies
  3. Analyze case studies of humanitarian health responses where human rights violations are persistent and severe
  4. Describe the relationship between human rights and ethical approaches to challenges faced by public health practitioners working in humanitarian emergencies
  5. Identify roles and responsibilities of humanitarian health professionals in advancing human rights and humanitarian principles
Methods of Assessment
This course is evaluated as follows:
  • 20% Participation
  • 45% Quizzes
  • 35% Final Paper
Enrollment Restriction
This section is ONLY for students in MPH, MSPH, DrPH and other non-OPAL programs. OPAL Certificate or MAS students should enroll in 604.741.86.
Instructor Consent
No consent required
Special Comments

This section is ONLY for students in MPH, MSPH, DrPH and other non-OPAL programs. OPAL Certificate or MAS students should enroll in 604.741.86.