SOC 5680 - Crimes Against Humanity

How social scientists, criminologists, and other intellectuals have sought to make sense of genocide and mass atrocity; the challenge of mass violence for criminology and law; and responses to mass atrocity by local, national and transnational actors.

Requisites:
Credit Hours: 4
Repeat/Retake Information: May not be retaken.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,CR,PR,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 discuss and critically evaluate how criminologists and other social scientists are attempting to intervene in mass atrocity.
Students will be able to discuss and critically evaluate tensions between humanitarian aid provision and human rights responses to mass atrocity.