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SOC 4680 - Crimes Against Humanity

Crimes Against Humanity examines how social scientists, criminologists, and other intellectuals attempt to understand and respond to genocide and mass atrocity. The course initially investigates the challenges of mass atrocity for social science, criminology, and law. It then explores various strategies for addressing mass atrocity, including innovative approaches by local, national, and transnational actors.

Requisites: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS: Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
  • Students will be able to discuss mass atrocity using a comparative-historical perspective.
  • Students will be able to discuss the context, experience, and behavior of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in specific cases of mass atrocity.
  • Students will be able to describe and critically analyze legal responses to genocide and mass violence.
  • Students will be able to discuss and critically evaluate the development of human rights, international law, and transnational justice movements.
  • Students will be able to identify and critically assess ethical dimensions of social scientific representations of mass atrocity.
  • Students will be able to describe and evaluate strategies for conflict transformation, healing, and conflict prevention.
  • Students will be able to identify and discuss how criminologists and other social scientists are attempting to intervene in mass atrocity.
  • Students will be able to recognize their own ethical core beliefs and understand how they shape ethical conduct and thinking in the context of mass atrocities.
  • Students will be able to apply and evaluate ethical perspectives, theories, and concepts to decision-making situations in the context of understanding and responding to mass atrocity.


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