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Identify, and understand the role of work of, the main public and private institutions that comprise the modern international human rights regime. 2. Identify the main past and present currents of theory and practice that define and challenge the contemporary consensus on human rights norms, particularly with respect to the core concepts of discrimination, equality, diversity, pluralism and human dignity. 3. Identify and trace the impact of Ecotourism on traditional societies. 4. the major events over the last hundred years that have led to the formation of the contemporary human rights norms and institutions.

5. Understand the major taxonomies, paradigms and current debates in the field of international human rights. 6. Exhibit competency in the integration of normative, institutional, public policy and empirical materials. 7. Understand the ways in which development and cultural societies coexist and the role of international organizations. 8. standards are implemented and enforced in both international and domestic fora, including the nature of the obligations on states and other national and international actors. 9. Think and write critically about human rights institutions, theories, strategies and their relationship to other social priorities. 10. Discuss in detail two or more case studies, groups at risk, or specific human rights problems such as public health, specific rights, refugees, indigenous people, poverty etc., incorporating as appropriate the resources of other Barnard departments and programs. 11. Identify the ways in which the human rights regime offers tools to address violations of womens human rights as well as the ways in which women have been influential in the field.