Arts & Human Rights - info pls.

Dougal.Maguire

Hi, im looking for any info people might have on this course? How they find it and the experience in 3rd year? Anybody doing it and is it worth doing instead of the basic Arts? Thanks!

Teddy_Picker

Hi Dougal, I'm not doing Human Rights or the B.A. Connect, just traditional Arts, so I'm only really relying on second hand information from friends.
The programme is only into its third year now, as far as I recall, so the first ever class would currently be in their third year, on their placements.

If you decide to do it, you will choose four subjects like everyone else in first year, and then drop one of these in Second Year, where you will be concentrating to a greater degree on your Human Rights programme. In 3rd year, you will focus exclusively on Human Rights, and will be on placement, probably abroad, working with a group or organisation who are involved with Human Rights issues, e.g. the U.N., Amnesty International, etc. In 4th year, you complete your degree.

The Irish Centre for Human Rights is located in Galway, and the Human Rights department is estimable, and, by all accounts, very helpful and accommodating towards its students, especially with regard to co-ordinating placements. There are also societies on campus with a very strong human rights bent, the Human Rights society is very strong, with regular talks and seminars (David Norris was a guest a couple of months ago), and there is also an Amnesty Soc and a Palestinian Solidarity Soc.

Again, apologies for the sketchy nature of the information, and I am merely relying on what I've picked up from friends and from the various media, but I hope it helps in some way.

Bootsy.

I'm just giving this a bump because I'm interested in this as well.

Any Human Rights/Arts students want to share their experiences?