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Course Catalog (Graduate)

GLOBAL WORKPLACE CULTURES: INTERNSHIP SEMINAR (GR5093)

A weekly seminar in the semester preceding the internship registration preparing students to describe, synthesize and analyse this experiential component of their degree. This seminar will prepare the students in how to integrate academic theory with practical experience and expand their understanding of the professional world.

APPLIED PROJECT CAPSTONE (GR5096)

The Applied Project is designed to provide MA students an opportunity to integrate the knowledge and skills gained from their courses to professional outcomes. Specifically, the project and its presentation should draw on the knowledge, analytic abilities, writing and presentation skills, and insights students have acquired through study, observation, and involvement in their disciplinary field. Students registering the Applied Project should also take the thesis seminar in order to help them critically reflect upon their creative process.

THESIS SEMINAR (GR5099)

This seminar instructs students in the appropriate methodology for the research and writing of a graduate thesis. During the semester students will refresh and hone their understanding of the methods introduced in their core courses and receive guidance as they choose their thesis topic and develop research questions. The course will culminate in the elaboration of an outline and abstract in preparation for their research and/or fieldwork.

INTERNSHIP EXTENSION (IDISC5980)

All internship extensions are related to a previous internship registration, please contact the internship office for more information.

INTERNATIONAL PUBLIC LAW (LW5000)

This foundational course introduces the student to the nature, major principles, processes and institutions of the international legal system, the relationship between international and domestic law and the role of law in promoting world public order. Students will acquire an understanding of the conceptual issues underlying this discipline and a critical appreciation of how law interacts with contemporary world politics. Topics include the creation and status of international law, participation and competence in the international legal system, primary substantive norms such as the law regulating the use of force and enforcement procedures.

COMPARATIVE LAW (LW5020)

This course covers the world’s wide-range of legal systems; offers comparative evaluation of the merits of differing legal solutions to social problems; and explores many of the current attempts to unify common and civil law at the international level. Special attention is given to the prominent features of civil law and common law systems, such as the rule of precedent (common law) versus the reliance on good faith (civil law), or the investigatory civil procedure (civil law) and the adversarial civil procedure (common law). Selected civil law judgments and common law judgments will be compared.

HUMAN RIGHTS AND DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES (LW5039)

This course joins two seemingly disparate disciplines – law and science – in an attempt to understand more fully the dense, multidimensional nature of the digital revolution and how we are going to live with it. Human Rights and Digital Technology is designed as an interdisciplinary primer, a guide to examining the critical issues that shape our use of digital technology.

ADVANCED INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS LAW (LW5074)

This course lays the groundwork for an advanced understanding of the international and regional human rights frameworks, both hard and soft law, that guarantee dignity for individuals and populations worldwide. International human rights law establishes the norms, jurisprudence and legal infrastructure necessary to promote the implementation of international human rights standards.