First College offers new courses for spring 2007

IDST 321: "Human Rights and the Educated Citizen" introduces students to the concepts of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, to Western and non-Western conceptions of human rights, and to the complex nature of human rights issues influenced by individual, cultural and social values.

Students gain a framework for analytical skills essential to human rights work and the complexity and interdependency of the human family, which promotes an understanding of the individual, local and global forces that create abuses and potential solutions at the local, national and international level.

Through community involvement, students connect human rights theories and cases around the globe to the local community, and vice versa, and develop an action plan for a local organization of their choice or in their personal environment.

The course provides students a great opportunity to take concrete action on human rights issues and get involved in or initiating change in the local community.

Register online at http://www.metrostate.edu/schedule.