1. Why Emphasize Human Rights?
2. A Brief History of Human Rights
   1. Human Rights Prior to World War I
   2. The Impact of World War I and the Holocaust
3. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
   1. Human Rights and the Founding of the United Nations
   2. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
4. Issues Involving Human Rights
5. The Expansion of Human Rights: What are Human Rights and Who Should Have Them?
   1. Cultural Relativism, Cultural Imperialism, and Human Rights
   2. Cultural Relativity and Universal Standards
6. Twentieth-Century Political and Civil Rights Violations
   1. Genocide and Disappearances
   2. War Crimes
7. The United States and Human Rights
   1. The United States and Global Human Rights
   2. The United States and Human Rights at Home
8. Assessing the Situation
   1. Human Rights in Today's World
   2. Human Rights and the Globalization Process
9. Summary
10. Thinking Critically
11. Suggested Readings

PART II: LEARNING OBJECTIVES

1. To understand what kinds of conditions constitute human rights violations.
2. To review why human rights are important.
3. To be able to identify the contributions of Aristotle, the Stoics, Judeo-Christian thought, the Middle Ages, the Magna Carta, and the Enlightenment to the development of human rights issues.
4. To understand the impact of World War II on human rights concerns.
5. To be able to identify and describe the four generations of human rights.
6. To understand the role of the United Nations in articulating and enforcing human rights.
7. To distinguish between cultural imperialism and cultural relativism, and their relevance for human rights discussions.
8. To describe the potential contributions of non-Western traditions, such as in Islam and Confucianism, to the development of human rights.
9. To be able to identify the types of genocide.
10. To be able to describe the United States' record on human rights.

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