Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
HIS2000
Current active course description (last updated 2021/22)
Globalization, Cosmopolitanism and Human Rights
HIS2000
Over the last hundred years, a set of overseas and international institutions has been developed that exercise significant power and complement and challenge the national institutions. The course gives an account of the history of the central international governing institutions and courts, for their mission statement and for human rights history. Freedom of expression and cultural conflict is an important topic in the course that has a historical and idea-historical orientation.The following topics are relevant:
- League of nations and UN's history
- EU history
- The history of inter- and supranational courts
- Human Rights History
- Globalization and globalization resistance
- The International Civil Society
- Freedom of speech
- Cosmopolitanism as an idea tradition
General study competence
Knowledge
- The student must have basic knowledge of the history of the central institutions of international governance, security and law from 1900 to today.
- The student must have knowledge of key concepts, topics and theories for the study of world citizenship and human rights, globalization and globalization resistance.
Skills
- The student must show the ability to discuss historical issues and draw their own conclusions.
General competence
- The student must show the ability to familiarize themselves with extensive academic literature, to convey relevant knowledge from the literature, and to argue for their own conclusions in written work.
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Advanced course for Bachelor in history. Elective course for other students
Lectures, colloquia, oral presentations, writing with student peer review, assignments, organised for both net- and campus students.
Annual evaluations which are included in the university´s quality assurance system.
The exam can be answered in either Norwegian or English
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