Final Dissertation: Interdisciplinary Seminar

Teacher(s)

Rasson Anne-Catherine;

Language

French

Learning outcomes

At the end of this learning unit, the student is able to :

The seminar’s aim is to introduce students to the links between economic globalisation and economic and social rights. Within the framework of the seminar, the students should be able to analytically establish the links between trade, investment and human rights; to understand the debates relating to the responsibilities with regard to human rights for the non-governmental actors who shape economic globalisation (international financial institutions and transnational corporations); and to situate these debates within the framework of the North-South relationships.

Content

The interdisciplinary seminar aims to explore in depth the contributions of the concept of vulnerability—in its universal, categorical, contextual, and empowering dimensions—to fundamental rights.
The approach will be interdisciplinary and will seek to foster a dialogue between the concepts of vulnerability, autonomy, social justice, domination, and intersectionality within the context of human rights.
The seminar will thus offer students the opportunity to explore various category-based systems of human rights protection, highlighting both their strengths and their limitations (gender, age, disability, race, class, sexual orientation, etc.) from a personal, interdisciplinary, and original perspective. It will also facilitate more cross-cutting research on vulnerability and human rights in a world facing multiple and escalating crises.

Teaching methods

The seminar includes collective meetings to introduce the subject matter as well as the individual monitoring of each student’s work in accordance with an outline that indicates the deadlines for (i) the choice of a topic, subject to the lecturer’s approval, (ii) the preparation of a provisional outline and of a text delimiting the subject, (iii) the preparation of a specific bibliography and (iv) the completion of the dissertation.

Evaluation methods

Work is evaluated on the basis of (i) the student's methodological rigour; (ii) the originality of the hypotheses developed; (iii) the attention paid to the aspect of interdisciplinarity (iv) the relevance of the content presented. Each one of these criteria carries an equivalent weight in the assessment. Attention will also be given to the quality of the writing.

Bibliography

Une bibliographie sera transmise lors de la première séance dispensée. Des documents seront également mis à disposition des étudiant·es sur Moodle.

Faculty or entity

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