Human Rights
| Degree programme | Social Work |
| Subject area | Social Work & Health |
| Type of degree | Bachelor Full-time Summer Semester 2025 |
| Course unit title | Human Rights |
| Course unit code | 048502046202 |
| Language of instruction | English |
| Type of course unit (compulsory, optional) | Compulsory |
| Teaching hours per week | 2 |
| Year of study | 2025 |
| Level of the course / module according to the curriculum | |
| Number of ECTS credits allocated | 5 |
| Name of lecturer(s) | Smera REHMAN |
Prerequisites for Incomings: Basic knowledge of Social Work (or related programmes such as Social Pedagogy).
The history and development of the human rights declaration and conventions; Social work as a human rights profession; Human rights documents and instruments; Case studies in the context of human rights; Discussing controversial issues and dilemmas regarding ethnic challenges; Developing social work courses of action.
Students: deepen their understanding of international human rights documents and instruments and critically reflect on human rights protection, identify the basic legal and strategic frameworks of the United Nations and its agencies, apply human rights conventions in case studies and understand the implications for social work practice, understand the meaning of social work as a human rights profession as defined by the International Federation of Social Workers.
Small group discussions, experiential exercises, debates, presentations and self-organized learning.
Oral presentation of a self-chosen social work topic including a handout with 1800-2000 words.
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Galtung, Johan (1994): Human rights in another key. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Healy, Lynne M. (2008): „Exploring the history of social work as a human rights profession." In: International
Social Work, 51 (2008), H. 6, S. 735-748. Online im Internet: DOI: 10.1177/0020872808095247
International Federation of Social Workers (2002): Social work and the rights of the child: a professional training manual on the UN Convention. Berne, Switzerland: International Federation of Social Workers.
Korczak, Janusz u.a. (2017): A child's right to respect. Warszawa: Rzecznik Praw Dziecka.
Pulkingham, Jane (2010): Human Welfare, Rights, and Social Activism: Rethinking the Legacy of J.S. Woodsworth. Toronto; Buffalo; London: University of Toronto Press.
Reichert, Elisabeth (2007): Challenges in Human Rights: A Social Work Perspective. Columbia: Columbia University Press.
Walz, Hans; Akkaya, Gülcan; Staub-Bernasconi, Silvia (2014): Menschenrechtsorientiert wahrnehmen - beurteilen - handeln: ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch für Studierende, Lehrende und Professionelle der Sozialen Arbeit. 3. Aufl. Luzern: Interact.
Wronka, Joseph (2017): Human rights and social justice: social action and service for the helping and health professions. 2. Aufl. California: Thousand Oaks.
Face-to-face