POLSC402: Global Justice

Explore the complex landscape of global justice in this comprehensive 31-hour course. Delve into human rights contexts, contemporary justice discourse origins, and political theory applications. Examine empowerment, agency, and the universal-relative debate. Analyze conflicting justice claims, revisit individual-collective debates, and investigate participation, rights, and needs in relation to civil, political, economic, social, and cultural rights. Conclude by evaluating the compatibility of global and justice concepts in both theory and practice.

• Course Introduction
• Unit 1: A Human Rights Context for Global Justice
• Unit 2: Origins of the Contemporary Justice and Rights Discourse
• Unit 3: Political Theory and Global Justice
• Unit 4: Empowerment, Agency, and Global Justice: Revisiting the Universal-Relative Debate
• Unit 5: Resolving Conflicting Claims for Justice: Revisiting the Individual-Collective Debate
• Unit 6: Participation, Rights, Needs, and Global Justice: Revisiting Civil, Political and Economic, Social, Cultural Rights Debate
• Unit 7: Final Considerations: Are Global and Justice Compatible In Theory and Practice?
• Course Feedback Survey
• Certificate Final Exam