Children's Rights
Freestanding course
About the course
This course is aimed at those who are interested in children's rights and want to explore the subject from a philosophical and political perspective - both locally and globally. Using the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child as a starting point, we analyze how children's rights are interpreted and discussed in the present. What does the children's freedom to express themselves look like today? What issues are crucial to their lives? Through critical discussions and analyses, you get tools to understand children's role in society.
Course content
The aim of the course is to enable the student to explore and analyze childhood and children’s agency from philosophical and political perspectives, as well as on a local and global level.
The United Nations’ Convention on the Rights of the Child is the point of departure for the course as it addresses local and global interpretations of childhood rights and children’s participation in the presence. Different philosophical and political discussions of the articulations of children’s rights och children’s participation are critically analyzed and discussed in relation to different central issues in the lives of children.
Entry requirements and selection
Entry requirements
General entry requirements + English 6
Selection
66% Upper Secondary Grades - 34% Swedish Scholastic Aptitude Test (SweSAT)
Course literature
Current literature list is available in the syllabus for the course
Course evaluation
The university provides all students who are participating in, or have completed, a course to express their experiences and views on the course through a course evaluation which is organized at the end of the course. The university will collate the course evaluations and provide information about their results and any actions prompted by them. The results shall be made available to the students. (HF 1:14).
