Jul 04, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
[Archived Catalog]
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SOC 4680 - Crimes Against Humanity
How social scientists, criminologists, and other intellectuals have sought to make sense of genocide and mass atrocity; the challenge of mass violence for criminology and law; and responses to mass atrocity by local, national and transnational actors.
Requisites: 9 Hours in SOC including 1000
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Bridge: Ethics and Reasoning
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 lecture
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will be able to discuss mass atrocity using a comparative-historical perspective.
- Students will be able to discuss the context, experience, and behavior of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders in specific cases of mass atrocity.
- Students will be able to describe and critically analyze legal responses to genocide and mass violence.
- Students will be able to discuss and critically evaluate the development of human rights, international law, and transnational justice movements.
- Students will be able to identify and critically assess ethical dimensions of social scientific representations of mass atrocity.
- Students will be able to describe and evaluate strategies for conflict transformation, healing, and conflict prevention.
- Students will be able to identify and discuss how criminologists and other social scientists are attempting to intervene in mass atrocity.
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