"Justicia y desigualdades: Estudios comparativos culturales” is a consecutive interdisciplinary Master’s programme with a cultural studies focus. It is taught entirely in Spanish and on campus (some online sessions are possible) and has an international profile. At the interface of humanities, social sciences and law, it addresses access to justice or overcoming injustices and the reduction of historically persistent intersectional inequalities as global issues for the future. The programme is directed at students from all over the world, primarily students from Latin America who are interested in its thematic orientation. The highly relevant subject area explores thematic areas such as peace and conflict research, global health, gender studies and development research as well as sustainable development. Justice and inequalities are analysed from different perspectives in the following fields: Representations of justice, social inequalities and human rights violations Social policy (work, education, health, pensions, transport, housing, social rights) and the transformative potential of law in contexts of extreme social inequalities Political economy of development processes, alternative concepts of development and alternatives to development; glottopolitics and social justice, discourses of justice, the role of language in social participation and in the democratisation of access to social resources Intersectionality, gender studies and struggles for social justice; democratic participation mechanisms and authoritarian movements; human rights violations and their treatment by transitional justice or the Inter-American Court of Human Rights and collective memory processes North-South asymmetries and global solidarity Extractivism, just energy transition, socio-ecological conflicts and climate justice Social, political and cultural determinants of health as well as the interactions between health, equity/justice and sustainable development
The study programme is worth a total of 120 credits (ECTS) and consists of: Four compulsory basic modules (Basic Module I: Justice, Fundamentals from a Cultural Studies Perspective, Basic Module II: Social Justice from a Cultural Studies Perspective, Basic Module III: Justice and Human Rights, Module IV: International Justice) amounting to 40 ECTS credits Compulsory elective area: two of four modules (North-South Perspectives and Issues of Gender/Intersectionality, Social Justice II, Justice and Human Rights II, International Justice II) amounting to 20 credits A compulsory module “Internship” amounting to 20 credits The Extracurricular Skills / Employability compulsory elective module, which can be completed either through Extracurricular Skills modules or through modules from the field of Intercultural Communication offered by the Institute of Romance Studies, amounting to 10 credits A “Master's thesis” compulsory module amounting to 30 credits PDF Download
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