On 10 December 1948, the General Assembly of the United Nations approved the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In its preamble, this document states that freedom, justice and peace in the world are based on recognition of the intrinsic dignity and equal and inalienable rights of all members of the human family. The same text promoted a moral mandate for all public and private institutions. The human rights set down in the UDHR were to serve as the common ideal of all peoples and nations, which had to strive:
"to the end that every individual and every organ of society, keeping this Declaration constantly in mind, shall strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms and by progressive measures, national and international, to secure their universal and effective recognition and observance."
The department of Legal Studies and Political Sciences of the UOC, in association with the Catalan Human Rights Institute (Institut de Drets Humans de Catalunya), has attempted to bring this mandate to the fore with the creation of this specialist qualification in Citizenship and Human Rights. This new postgraduate qualification attempts to bridge a gap to meet the growing demand of our society for specialists in human rights and democracy capable of incorporating into their profession, in the public or private sphere, basic categories of human rights and democracy such as equality, freedom, solidarity and the principle of respect for human dignity.
This UOC-IDHC qualification is endorsed by the Department for the Promotion of Peace and Human Rights of the Catalan Generalitat government, under the auspices of which it was created, and has the support of several Catalan universities and institutions: Ombudsman of Catalonia, the Autonomous University of Barcelona, the University of Barcelona, the University of Rovira i Virgili and the University of Gerona. The wide-ranging institutional collaboration and backing of the educational proposal allows for the use of top professionals and academics in the field.
This course aims to:
a) Provide students with a wide-ranging culture in the areas of human rights and democracy.
b) Create a solid background for incorporating the value of human rights and democracy into many professional spheres (education, legal practices, business consultancy, human resources, cooperative NGOs, etc).
List of topics
See complete syllabus
Price
1.165 euros
Consult the financial aid that the UOC offers to international students.
The programme fees should be confirmed on enrolment.
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