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Human Rights Online - Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Human Rights via distance learning
This program examines various legal, politics, and moral issues at the national and international levels. The goal is to identify the ideological and political motivations underlying global and regional regimes and Human Rights organizations. Also, it analyses how nations and political parties adapt the doctrines of Human Rights to their own interests. The program highlights some key aspects for developing methods that ensure the practical application of Human Rights principles internationally.
Academic Supervisor : Margarita Trejo Poison
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Human Rights Online via distance learning
Specialist, Bachelor's, Master's, Doctor - Human Rights.
This module is applicable to Specialist, Expert, Bachelor's, Master's & Ph.D. (Doctor) Degree Programs. This academic program is designed at the postgraduate level (Master’s or Doctoral). This module may also be adapted to complete the course requirements of Specialist, Expert Diploma or Bachelor’s Degree. A further option is the enrollment into each of the courses listed within this specialization module. This module may be combined or completed with other modules from this faculty. For example: Community & Social Development - Criminology - CSR Corporate Social Responsibility - Persuasive Technology - Political Science - Protocol & Etiquette - Social Community Management - Social Engineering - Social Media Management - Social Psychology - Social Science - Social Work - Sociology .
Specialist - Expert Diploma - Human Rights Online
Tuition Fee: 1.050 Euros (1.350 US$) ... 1.470 Euros (1.890 US$).
Specialist - Expert Diploma Online: 15 ... 21 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Human Rights via distance learning = 42 Academic credits - Select 5 courses for the online diploma of Specialist or 7 courses for the Expert Diploma from the total of courses from the specialization module.
Bachelor's Degree - Human Rights Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 3.510 Euros (4.420 US$) ... Max. 6.800 Euros (8.700 US$).
Bachelor's Degree Online: 130 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Human Rights via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + 40 credits in General Education (may be transferred from previous education and professional experience) + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: International Law.
Master's Degree - Human Rights Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 4.680 Euros (6.120 US$) ... Max. 7.020 Euros (9.180 US$).
Master's Degree Online: 36 ... 54 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Human Rights via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: International Law. + 13 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree - Human Rights Online
Tuition Fee: Min. 5.850 Euros (7.650 US$) ... Max. 9.360 Euros (12.240 US$).
Doctor Ph.D. Degree Online: 45 ... 72 Academic credits required for this distance learning degree program. More info...
Composition: Human Rights via distance learning = 42 Academic credits + Additional courses may be selected from other modules in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities from Bircham International University if required. This selection must be approved by the Distance Learning University Education Board. For example: International Law. + 18 Academic credits (Research methodology and final project or thesis. More info...).
Payment plans are available upon request up to 36 monthly installments. More info...
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Human Rights Online
Courses list (each subject accounts for 3 academic credits):
1 BIU Earned Credit = 1 USA Semester Credit (15 hours of learning) = 2 ECTS Credits (30 hours of study).
You may study any subject as an independent online continuing education course. More info...
Human Rights Policy
This course concentrates on the key problems that arise from incorporating human rights concerns into policy. It considers human rights norms, their interaction with civil and political rights, the role of such norms in international and domestic law, the observance and enforcement of human rights, and the problems of including human rights concern as an integral part of a country's policy.
Academic Supervisor: Antoine K. Abou Assaf
Moral Principles
This course deals the moral principles of right and wrong that are accepted by an individual or a social group. It examines the body of standards derived from a code of conduct from a particular philosophy, religion, culture, or personal beliefs. Understanding the moral principles is important because they govern a person's behavior or the conducting of an activity.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados
Cross Cultural Social Perspectives
This course studies the similarities and differences of cultures. It teaches students the skills of communication, negotiation, and managing cultural differences. It provides a cross cultural social perspective to deal effectively with individuals from varied cultures in different situations.
Academic Supervisor: Francis Wambua Mulwa
Human Rights & Public Institutions
This course explores the functioning of institutions on the formulation and implementation of human rights policy. It analyses why institutions adopt different human rights agendas, why and how they select implementation options, and what is the best form of assessing the successful pursuit of a human rights policy.
Academic Supervisor: Antoine K. Abou Assaf
Comparative Human Rights Law
This course explores and compares different backgrounds in the key legal instruments, the institutions, and the provisions related to human rights. It studies the controversies in the concept of human rights and the problems involved in asserting universal moral standards across political and cultural divides.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
Criminal Behavior
This course examines the psychological processes related to criminal behavior, social deviance, aggression theory, bio-psychological factors, criminal homicide, sexual offenses, drugs and crime, correctional psychology, the criminal offender, and the mentally disordered offender.
Academic Supervisor: Fernando Miralles
Terrorism
This course takes an in-depth analysis into domestic and international terrorism with focus on current terrorist threats and issues. It examines causes, criminal procedures, and the legal and constitutional issues in reference to terrorism investigation, prevention, apprehension. and prosecution of terrorists.
Academic Supervisor: Anna Sofie Helen Bolin
International Public Law
This course examines the scope and role of administrative regulation of governmental agencies. It explores the constitutional principles that limit administrative power and the administrative laws that govern conflict between administrative agencies and their constituencies; rulemaking, judicial review, and informed regulatory processes of importance to public officials.
Academic Supervisor: Antoine K. Abou Assaf
Law & Justice
This course of law and justice debates the separation between the application of the law an actual justice. Law is a system of rules created and enforced through social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior with justice, but the concept of justice differs in every culture. Justice is the principle that people receive that which they deserve, a concept being impacted with many differing viewpoints and perspectives, including the concepts of moral correctness based on ethics, rationality, law, religion, equity and fairness.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
Human Rights
This course explains the key issues and the foundations of human rights theory. It studies the normative foundations of human rights in political theory and philosophy. It seeks to develop an analytical and critical understanding of the purpose of human rights and a view about what can and cannot be appropriately be called a human right.
Academic Supervisor: Margarita Trejo Poison
Protection of Human Rights
This course analyzes the problem of implementing human rights law within political systems and reconciling supervision by international bodies with national sovereignty. It examines specific types of rights and their protection (e.g., right to free speech, privacy, and free association, etc...). It presents the methods used of advocating human rights at the local, national, regional, and international levels.
Academic Supervisor: Philipose Daniel
International Legal Procedures
This course studies the problems of international legal procedures in private and governmental practices as affected by international relations; the law applicable to different conflicts; interpretation of laws, treaties, and other international agreements; jurisdiction of nations; as well as the formation, operation, and function of international agreements, international claims, arbitrage, and dispute resolution.
Academic Supervisor: Antoine K. Abou Assaf
World Politics & Globalization
This course discusses the great power relations in the 20th century. Several critical issues of world equilibrium are analyzed, as well as notions of national power, the paths to power, balance of power, and collective security. It presents the instruments of international peace and order. It examines the following topics in international politics: massive destruction arms control, wars of intervention, the environment, global interest versus self-determination, and peace management.
Academic Supervisor: Mª Teresa Martinho Almagro
Ethical Dilemmas
This course explores the ethical dilemmas or ethical paradox, a decision-making problem between two possible moral imperatives, neither of which is unambiguously acceptable or preferable. The complexity arises out of the situational conflict in which obeying would result in transgressing another. Ethical dilemmas may be invoked to refute an ethical system or moral code, or to improve it so as to resolve the paradox.
Academic Supervisor: Agusti Guisasola Prados
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Human Rights Online via distance learning
Recommended Professional References.
Joining the proper association is the best way to become an updated professional.
Bircham International University graduates may join many professional associations. Membership requirements for each association may vary depending on the degree program, specialization and graduate resume en each occasion. BIU can not guarantee membership in all instances. BIU does not intermediate in these procedures. Bircham International University provides a list of available memberships and professional references from each faculty where some BIU graduates may belong. Contact directly the ones you select. More info...
ACHPR - African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights
ADDHU - Associação de Defesa dos Direitos Humanos
AEDH - Association Européenne pour la Défense des Droits de l’Homme
AEDIDH - Asociación Española para el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos
AHRC - Asian Human Rights Commission
AHRI - Association of Human Rights Institutes
AI - Amnesty International
ALDH - Associação Lusófona de Direitos Humanos
APRODEH - Asociacion Pro Derechos Humanos
BIHR - British Institute of Human Rights
CDHCP - Centro de Derechos Humanos y Cultura de Paz
FBDH - Federaça Brasileira Dos Direitos Humanos
FDH - Federación Derechos Humanos
FGHR - Fund for Global Human Rights
FIDH - Federación Internacional de Derechos Humanos
FIDH - Fédération Internationale des Droits de l'Homme
HRAC - Human Rights Action Center
HRLA - Human Rights Lawyers Association
HRS - Human Rights Society
HRW - Human Rights Watch
IAOHRA - International Association of Official Human Rights Agencies
IFHHRO - International Federation of Health and Human Rights Organisations
IFHR - International Federation for Human Rights
ISHR - International Society for Health and Human Rights
LDH - Ligue des Droits de l'Homme
MMDH - Mouvement Mondial des Droits Humains
UHR - United for Human Rights
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Admission requirements - Human Rights
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
For official admission status at Bircham distance education university; you need to send in a filled out, dated, and signed official Application for Admission. You may download this application form from the website or request it by email or mail. Please send this application and enclosed documents to our address. You may also submit this application and attached documents by email in a PDF Format. More info...
Bircham International University issues an admission certificate after receiving your complete application for admission. This document will show the amount of credits transferred and validated from previous education and experience, and the amount of credits required to complete the distance learning degree program's major. Bircham University can not perform this evaluation without the complete application for admission. More info...
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METHOD OF INSTRUCTION: Distance Learning Higher Education
This distance learning education program is completed by a traditional correspondence instruction method. Once you sign up for the course, Bircham International University will send you (to your mailing address) the suggested textbooks. After reading the book, you will be asked to write a 20 to 35 pages report that reflect your understanding of the book. This report is equivalent to the exam and can be submitted by email or mail. Bircham International University will evaluate your written work. If passed, BIU will issue the corresponding diploma. For more instructions about BIU pedagogy, tutoring, and evaluation, please read our distance learning education study guide. More info...
Students enrolling into this distance education program should be aware that:
1. Location: Bircham International University needs a functional geographical location to ship the book and materials for successful completion of this program of study.
2. Communication: Email, courier, phone are key communication instruments with Bircham University that play an important role in the progress and support of this program of study.
3. Capacity: Any impediment, physical or psychological, to read a book and write a report must be communicated to Bircham International University prior to enrollment into this distance learning program.
4. Technology: No specific technology is required to complete this distance education program.
5. Language: Book reading and report writing in other language than English must be requested (and approved by BIU) prior to enrollment in any distance learning program.
6. Discrimination: There is no discrimination with respect to race, color, gender, beliefs or religion.
7. Age: Check the admission requirements for each distance education degree program. More info...
Duration - Human Rights Online via distance learning
For a program of 21 credits, the estimated time for completion is 21 weeks. For 45 credits, the estimated time for completion will be 45 weeks, and so on. Calculations are approximate. The length of each distance learning degree program is calculated based on an average of 15 hours of learning per week. It also depends on the number of validated credits from previous knowledge and the level of commitment to the studies. More info...
All information related to the distance learning degree programs is in English, although you may, upon request and approval, submit the required assignments in other languages.
Recognition - Human Rights Online via distance learning
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Faculty of Arts & Humanities via distance learning
Human Rights Online
Specialist - Expert Diploma, Bachelor's Degree, Master's Degree, Doctor Ph.D. Degree.
