Undergraduate Module Descriptor

POL3262: The Idea of Human Rights

This module descriptor refers to the 2020/1 academic year.

Whilst the precise content may vary from year to year, it is envisaged that the syllabus will cover all or some of the following topics:

- The history of the idea of human rights

- Arendt’s critique of human rights

- Rorty’s anti-foundational defence of human rights

- Normative theories of human rights

- John Rawls’ ‘law of peoples’

- Human rights and contemporary politics

- Critics of human rights

This table provides an overview of how your hours of study for this module are allocated:

Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	Guided independent study	Placement / study abroad
22	128

...and this table provides a more detailed breakdown of the hours allocated to various study activities:

Category	Hours of study time	Description
Scheduled Learning and Teaching Activities	22	11 x 2 hour seminars
Guided independent study	44	Preparing for seminars: Reading and research
Guided independent study	84	Completing assessment tasks: Reading, research and writing

This module has online resources available via ELE (the Exeter Learning Environment).