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May 01, 2026
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GOV 425 - Human Rights/Human Wrongs
Description
This course is structured as a senior seminar. It focuses on human rights and human wrongs in general, emphasizing political asylum in the United States. The major component of the course, aside from the weekly seminar readings and discussions, centers on the political asylum project. Students work on a political asylum case in the context of a community partnership. Students work in groups and compile evidence, testimony, and detainee affidavits that are used in an immigration court of law for the political asylum detainee’s case. Students have direct hands-on experience working with asylum seekers currently incarcerated in an INS detention facility. Students present and evaluate individual cases in a mock trial.
Credits: 1
Course Attribute(s):
SOCS Gen Ed: Social Science Req
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