Master
2021/2022
Minority Rights: Comparative Practices
Type:
Elective course (Political Analysis and Public Policy)
Area of studies:
Political Science
Delivered by:
Public Policy Department
Where:
Faculty of Social Sciences
When:
1 year, 3, 4 module
Mode of studies:
offline
Open to:
students of all HSE University campuses
Master’s programme:
Political Analysis and Public Policy
Language:
English
ECTS credits:
5
Contact hours:
40
Course Syllabus
Abstract
Learning objectives of the course Minorities’ rights: comparative practices are: to introduce students to the main problems of the discriminations of minorities, to give them complex understanding of existing literature and to the state of research on the topic; to introduce them to variations both in state approaches to the problems of different minorities; to develop skills and competencies to propose strategies and technologies for vulnerable groups rights protection.
Learning Objectives
- Working with primary sources and literature on the problems of minorities and social vulnerable groups
- Collecting objective and adequate information on the problems connected with minorities and social vulnerable groups
- Designing and implementation special strategies for protection minorities and social vulnerable groups’ rights
- Be able to compare problems of minorities and social vulnerable groups in different regions and countries
Expected Learning Outcomes
- Able to competently analyse the nature and character of problems connected with minorities and social vulnerable groups in concrete circumstances
- Be able to analyze and compare the different types of state policy towards minorities and social vulnerable groups
- Know the main approaches of minorities studies
- Know the major problems of different minorities and social vulnerable groups. Forms of their economic, political and cultural discrimination
Course Contents
- Race and nationality: cases of discrimination and strategies of protection
- Ethnic minorities: comparative practices of rights protection
- Religious minorities and their rights: causes of discrimination and the strategies of protection
Interim Assessment
- 2021/2022 4th module0.5 * Essay + 0.2 * active participation + 0.3 * Individual presentation
Bibliography
Recommended Core Bibliography
- Basta Fleiner, L., Lin, L., & Xixia, L. (2012). On Minority Rights. [N.p.]: Paths International Ltd. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1018127
- Chapman, C., & Ramsay, K. (2011). Two Campaigns to Strengthen United Nations Mechanisms on Minority Rights. International Journal on Minority & Group Rights, 18(2), 185–199. https://doi.org/10.1163/157181111X565657
- Skrentny, J. D. (2002). The Minority Rights Revolution. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=282190
- Tove H. Malloy. (2014). Minority Issues in Europe: Rights, Concepts, Policy. [N.p.]: Frank & Timme GmbH. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=977820
Recommended Additional Bibliography
- Dersso, S. A. (2012). Taking Ethno-cultural Diversity Seriously in Constitutional Design : A Theory of Minority Rights for Addressing Africa’s Multiethnic Challenge. Leiden: Brill | Nijhoff. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=503866
- When equality directives are not enough: Taking an issue with the missing minority rights policy in the EU? (2018). Hart Publishing / Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsnar&AN=edsnar.oai.pure.rug.nl.publications.5027581b.2059.4c2d.ad89.ef60cdb4722e