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PUL241: Human Right Law 1

Welcome to Law: Human Rights Law 1

This Course Guide provides you with the various topics on the introductory course in Human Rights Law. It is prepared for students in the second year of study in Law at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN). Human Rights Law is an area of Law which deals with the study of Human Rights and authorities of the state and the organization of the state. Traditionally, Human Rights law has often been studied by means of volume and very large textbooks; this guide provides the student with a concise understanding of the basic principles and focuses on views that are germane in the study of Human Rights Law

What Will You Learn?

In this introductory section, the aims and objectives of the course will be explained. The module provides some useful advice on the reading system, the role of using the course guide, the structure of the module, and guidance and preparation for the assessment. It is important that one understands all these at the beginning, of ensuring that one is able to get the most out to the course and so the best one can be.

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1 Semester
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200 Level
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By the end of this course, you should be able;

• To introduce you to what Human Rights Law is all about.

• To put you through the various methods used to make a constitution and to make projections covering events and or phenomena.

• To highlight the major areas within Human Rights Law as a field of study and show how these relate to other disciplines.

• To show you that all activities of government affect our lives and that constitution is very important in every society.

To study this course, and the various units, you need to be ready to think critically and analytically. You need to develop a constructive mind to be able to weigh different arguments carefully, trying to determine which arguments you find most plausibly convincing and why. This is to enable you to decipher properly which positions you would like to take without being a “copy-cat” student. If it is by understanding different positions that one can develop one’s ability to do the same.

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Human Rights Law
Methods used to make a constitution
Make projections covering events and or phenomena
How all activities of government affect our lives

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