Human Rights in the Americas

Description from DukeHub

This course introduces students to the history and current debates of human rights in Latin America, with a focus on certain regions. We will begin with the Conquest and cover the emergence of independent nation-states; the Cold War, dictatorships, and civil wars; the role of imposed economic policies, including neoliberalism; the struggles of Indigenous and Afrodescendant movements; the War on Drugs, migration policies, and the current rightward shift.

Skills

• policy and lawdescription: "policies" and 1 more

AI-resilient: 2 of 5 2/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• No: Live work with people
• ✓Yes: Judgment someone is accountable for · "policies"
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• ✓Yes: Small, in-person format · seminar, 18 seats per section

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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