The Future of Human Rights: Sustainability and Contemporary Social Challenges

Education facts

Code: GRK2JK

The course covers the theoretical attempts to reform the understanding of human rights in order to improve the ability to deal with contemporary problems, such as the climate crisis. Focus is on the so-called third and fourth wave of human rights. Further, how human rights have become a dominant framework for the way in which states and citizens/individuals should act in relation to each other is discussed.

Entry requirements

60 credits within history, religious studies, sociology, political science or international relations, and English 6/English level 2. (Exemption of the requirement in Swedish for those with foreign grades)

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• The Future of Human Rights: Sustainability and Contemporary Social Challenges

  Dalarna University

  Falun

  Start date: 29 March 2027

  End date: 6 June 2027

  Pace of study: 50 %