& Human
Rights
Globalization & Human Rights is a semester-long senior history elective offered in the spring by Greg Feldmeth at Polytechnic School in Pasadena, California. Students study the history of human rights, develop an understanding of globalization, and investigate both globalization and human rights issues in the world today. Course features include weekly reading and issue analysis of articles in The Economist, readings, viewing documentaries and films, creating human rights report card web sites, student presentations, guest speakers, and field trips. The course is an elective of the Global Initiatives Program Certificate curriculum and has been approved by the University of California.
Los Angeles Times reporter Reed Johnson spoke to the class
on April 15th about freedom of press issues in Latin America.
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