Human rights and Welfare Policies - Bachelor
Undergraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters
- Autumn
- Course code
- JUS2313
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English
- Resources
- Schedule
Course description
Objectives and Content
Learning Outcomes
KNOWLEDGE
By the end of the course, students are expected to have knowledge of
- human rights law and underpinning core values
- notions and significance of universality and relativity
- relationship between different rights
- state obligations, especially related to socio-economic human rights
- core content of rights and state obligations
- the duty of non-discrimination
- negative and positive aspects of rights and state obligations
- conflicting rights and duties in welfare law and policies.
SKILLS
By the end of the course, students should be able to:
- explain the content of central human rights instruments and sources
- identify and apply relevant sources and arguments in human rights assessments of welfare law and policies
- identify conflicting rights and obligations in welfare law and policies, and to discuss how to balance them.
GENERAL COMPETENCE
After successful completion of the course, students should have general competence in
- human rights law and analysis, especially in the field of socio-economic human rights
- academic legal discourse
- critical thinking and legal assessments of domestic welfare law and policies
ECTS Credits
Level of Study
Semester of Instruction
Place of Instruction
Required Previous Knowledge
Recommended Previous Knowledge
Credit Reduction due to Course Overlap
Combined with JUS276-2-A Human rights law: Special Focus on Economic Social and Cultural Rights, JUS276-2-C Human rights and welfare policies or JUS3513 Human rights and welfare policies this course will generate no new credits.
THIS COURSE COMBINES WELL WITH
JUS250-2-D Velferdsrett
JUS2322/JUS3522 Health and human rights in the welfare state
Access to the Course
The course is available for the following students:
- Admitted to the five-year programme in law
- Exchange students at the Faculty of Law
The pre-requirements may still limit certain students' access to the course.
Teaching and learning methods
Compulsory Assignments and Attendance
Forms of Assessment
Four-hour digital school exam. Information about digital examination.
Exam language
Exam question: English
Answer: English.
Grading Scale
Assessment Semester
Reading List
Course Evaluation
Examination Support Material
See section 3-5 of the Supplementary Regulations for Studies at the Faculty of Law at the University of Bergen.
In addition: Course compendium supplied by the Faculty of Law.
Special regulations about dictionaries
- According to the Regulations for Studies, one dictionary is permitted support material during the examination. Bilingual dictionaries containing for example both Norwegian-English and English-Norwegian are considered as one dictionary.
- Bilingual dictionaries to/from the same two languages - for example NorwegianEnglish/English-Norwegian - in two different volumes are also considered as one dictionary (irrespective of publisher or edition).
- Dictionaries as described above cannot be combined with any other types of dictionaries.
- Any kind of combination which makes up more than two physical volumes is forbidden.
In case a student has a special need for any other combination than the above mentioned, such combination has to be clarified with/approved by the course coordinator minimum two weeks before the exam. Students who have not been granted permission to have a special combination minimum two weeks before the exam will be subject to the usual regulations (Section 3- 5) about examination support materials.