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Spring2015 – Humphrey Seminar: Human Rights, Leadership & the Rule of Law
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WeeklyCourse Session Content & Homework
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All readings are available online throughthe 2014-15 HHH Year folder on Google Drive. All homework will be due on the day under which it is listed.
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Course Sessions:
Monday: 11:15 am – 1:15 pm;
10:30 required logistics session begins in February
Room 473
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Tuesday: 12:15 – 1:15 pm
Room 65
*Some required professional development sessions heldTuesday mornings.
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DATE/TOPIC
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Week 1  Institutional and Community Leadership: Introduction, Part 1           | 1/20/2015 — Education and Collaborative Leadership We will discuss human rights education as a tool for empowering and inspiring human rights movements. Skills discussed will include: facilitation, creative and engaging teaching methodologies, and encouraging a non-hierarchical learning environment. This session will prepare Fellows for their Human Rights Workshops in Spring Semester.  HOMEWORK: The Human Rights Education Handbook: Effective Practices for Learning, Action, and Change, Human Rights Resource Center, University of Minnesota - Review Parts II (A-E), III (C), V(A-D), VI(A), and Index of Methods, Techniques and Activities (A – Methods for Human Rights Education).  | |||
Week 2  Institutional and Community Leadership: Introduction, Part 2  NOTE: There will be an opportunity to attend the Minnesota Human Trafficking Taskforce on Monday, January 27th in the morning.  |  1/26/2015 — Stories of Human Rights Leadership: Law School Dean David Wippman  HOMEWORK: Finding Your True North, Exercise 7.1, Building My Support Team 1/27/2015 — Vanessa Fusco Nogueira Simoes – Challenges to Protecting Children Online: A Brazilian Perspective [9:30 am – 11:30 am Logistics session will precede this class] 1/28/2015 — Presentation Skills Training - Dorsey and Whitney Law Firm (8:15 – 11:30 am) HOMEWORK: Complete Presentation Planning Assignment sent to you by email | |||
Week 3  Institutional and Community Leadership: Intersectionality, Part 1  How do we, as leaders, work with the most marginalized in our communities? | 2/2/2015 — Stories of Human Rights Leadership: LGBTI Rights – Trans 101 and a Discussion of CeCe McDonald [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  HOMEWORK: Complete Gender Expression Survey sent to you by email; Watch: trailer for the documentary Free Cece - http://www.freececedocumentary.net/promotional-trailer.html 2/3/2015 — Aneeta Aahooja – Culture and Child Exploitation | |||
Week 4  Research and Leadership: Gathering Facts to Shape Decisions, Part 1  NOTE: There will be an opportunity to attend the Labor Trafficking Subcommittee in the morning on Tuesday, February 10th.   | 2/9/2015 — Stories of Human Rights Leadership: Professor James Ron [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  HOMEWORK: Who Trusts Local Human Rights Organizations? Evidence from Three World Regions, Ron and Crow; Activist Culture and Transnational Diffusion: Social Marketing and Human Rights Groups in Russia, Mendelson and Gerber  2/10/2015 — Vered Windman – Corporal Punishment as a Violation of Children’s Rights in Israel  2/10/2015 — Leave for Arizona Immigration Study Trip  | |||
Week 5  Research and Leadership: Gathering Facts to Shape Decisions, Part 2  | 2/16/2015 — Return from Arizona Immigration Study Trip  2/17/2015 — Abalo Assih – Police and Human Rights Issues in Togo [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  | |||
Week 6  Institutional and Community Leadership: Intersectionality, Part 2  How do we, as leaders, work with the most marginalized in our communities? |  2/23/2015 — Film: Slavery by Another Name [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  2/24/2015 — Stories of Human Rights Leadership: Race, Class, and Place Disparities in Minnesota   | |||
Week 7  Institutional Leadership to International Leadership – Case Study: Prisons, Jails, and the International Community     |  3/2/2015 — Human Rights in Prisons and Jails: Kathya Cibelle (9:00 am – 11:00 am) [11:15 am Logistics session will follow this class]  3/2/2015 — Marcela Sanchez-Buitrago – Diversity, Intersectionality, and Human Rights (11:45 am – 1:15 pm)  3/3/2015 — Skills Session: Project Management, Day 1 (9:00 am – 11:30 am)  3/3/2015 — Dong Nguyen – Viet Nam and US: Ties that Bind (12:15 pm – 1:15 pm) | |||
Week 8  Project Management    | 3/9/2015 —  Presentation by Community Policy Students on Trafficking Research (11:15 am – 12:00 pm) [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  3/9/2015 — Hussein El Hajj and Lhouceine Aamar – Human Rights and Immigration (12:15 – 1:15 pm)  3/10/2015 — Skills Session: Project Management, Day 2 (9:00 am – 11:30 am)  3/10/2015 — Athar Waheed – Terror Victimity: Its Consquences  **The week of March 16th is Spring Break – Please continue to work on your Project Management projects during Break.  | |||
Week 9  International Leadership: Optional Class on Prisoners of War  |  3/23/2015 — Optional Class: Viewing of the film, Colditz in relation to POW status and protections  3/24/2015 — No Class | |||
Week 10  Project Management  |  3/30/2015 — Skills Session: Project Management, Day 3 (11:15 am – 1:15 pm) [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  3/31/2015 — Skills Session: Project Management, Day 4 (9:00 am – 11:30 am) ** Final project outlines are due today  3/31/2015 — Fasoha – Role of National Human Rights Bodies in Advancing Human Rights (12:15 pm – 1:15 pm)  |
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Week 11  International Leadership: Women and War |  4/6/2015 — Film: Pray the Devil Back to Hell (12:15 pm – 2:00 pm) [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  4/7/2015 — Skills Session: Fundraising (10:00 am – 11:30 am)  4/7/2015 — Shiran Gooneratne – Adoption and Integration of Human Rights Treaties in Commonwealth Countries (12:15 pm – 1:15 pm)  4/7/2015 — Debrief with IHL Class on Pray the Devil Back to Hell – Gendered Harm in Armed Conflict   |
Week 12  International Leadership: Conclusion of 4 I’s Series  Duluth Field Visit |  4/13/2015 — Special Guest: Tony Fernandes, African Director, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, US Department of State [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  4/14/2015 — Lourens Grové – Human Rights in Cyberspace  4/16/2015 – 4/19/2015 – Duluth Field Visit and Year End Retreat |
Week 13  Fellow-planned Closing Activities  Course Evaluation |   4/20/2015 — Open for Fellow-planned Activities [10:30 am Logistics session will precede this class]  4/21/2015 — Transnational Organized Crime: Human Rights Implications  |
Week 14  Graduation    |  4/27/2015 — Graduation  4/29/2015 — Last Class – Reflection Activities – TBD |