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Genocide and Human Rights Learning Reflection - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Evidence of Learning: This module served as a great reintroduction the the history of human rights in a little more depth, something that I started learning about in Intro to Global Studies and International Relations. I reminded myself about the importance of the people that created the UDHR such as Eleanor Roosevelt.
        
        Photo of Eleanor Roosevelt with the UDHR. I chose this photo becuase of her large role in the creation of the UDHR, an important component in the learning from this module.
        
        Module 2 and my future: This module taught me about the importance of human rights in the world, something that I can take with me everyday in my future life when doing things like watching the news. I think this module was also important for my future career because it reminded me of how important it is to focus on foundational knowledge (History, key actors, key concepts, and definitions of key terms) before trying to deeply learn about a subject. This is just as important as deeper or more difficult knowledge and topics.
- - - - Evidence of Learning: This module required me to learn more about the quantitative data surrounding poverty. Once I learned these facts, I was ready to learn how poverty can put people more at risk for human rights violations. While I had learned about absolute and relative poverty in global studies classes in the past, this was the first activity that really made me put myself in the shoes of someone living in poverty in the United States and the Choices that they must make.
        
        I chose to include a photo of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs for this module. This is because while I was working through the module I constantly was thinking about how if you are spending so much time trying to figure out how to survive you can’t possibly work to develop your career, educate yourself, or focus on mental health.
        
        Module 2 and my future: While I learned many facts and information in this module, I think the most important thing that I will take away from this is empathy and compassion towards others going through situations such as poverty. It is important to look out for others and to help them in a way that is actually helpful for their needs and this assignment reminded me just how difficult dealing with something like poverty is.
        
        The connection to CST was also incredibly strong for me, it was interesting to gain a different perspective and analyze something that we study in global studies and political science courses from a more religious perspective. The readings in this module really taught me about how multidimensional poverty is and also a lot about misconceptions of poverty.
- - - - Evidence of Learning: This module taught me a lot about what was missing from the beginning work in human rights. For example, learning about how groups of people were left out of documents like the UDHR. The assignment in this module gave me the opportunity to look closer at the Human Rights Council and how their work protects human rights and also how the organization relates to my final paper about the Rwandan Genocide.
        
        I chose a photo that represents the revision process. This is because I think that this module had an emphasis on revision and improvement in human rights, but I also practiced revision and improvement from my first analytical essay to my second analytical essay.
        
        Module 7 and my future: The assignment in this module is something that will be useful for my future academic studies when I go to graduate school. I always enjoy the opportunity to practice my writing, and the analysis that went along with this essay was interesting. This paper was also a chance to apply the feedback that I learned from the first analytical essay.
- - - - Evidence of Learning: This module provided me with a lot of context on the universality of human rights. I learned about how human rights are viewed and implemented differently across cultures. I also liked learning about Liu Xiabo and the impact that he had. The readings in this module were especially interesting and helped me to further understand the course concepts.
        
        For this module, I chose to include a photo of Liu Xiabo because I found his story and his involvement in the democracy protests in China very interesting. He is someone that I don’t believe I have learned about in the past, and I found his story and his connection to the material quite interesting.
        
        Module 4 and my future: The reflection portion of this module was also incredibly valuable. I appreciated the chance to think about the work that I had done with assignments and readings, and evaluate how I could improve the quality of work that I was submitting for the course. I also appreciated the ability to share feedback for the course which was then taken for the following modules which was very exciting to see!
- - - - Evidence of Learning: This module required me to read, learn, and reflect a lot about implementing human rights, and when it is necessary to intervene. The discussion board required us to think a lot about the difficulties in implementing R2P which raised questions about things like sovereignty, morality, selfishness, politics, and other issues. I found that when writing my discussion board and rereading the material, I kept coming up with another issue that might impact how a human rights issue is solved, the complexity was something that stuck with me.
        
        I chose to include a photo of the 9/11 memorial in New York City for this module. This is because I was struck by Powers’ discussion in the text about how the United States changed it’s view on genocide prevention post 9/11 and is now more willing to spend financial resources on genocide prevention instead of considering it as a luxury.
        
        Module 5 and my future: This module reminded me how important it is to work to digest complex information by breaking down the material, re-reading it, and working through questions with others (like we did in the discussion board assignment that we had). Hearing the opinions of other people, especially those not in the Political Science/Global Studies program was interesting and helped me gain additional perspectives on this issue and human rights in general.
- - - - Evidence of Learning: I have learned more in-depth about the legal documents involved in protecting human rights. While I have taken courses that have discussed human rights a good bit in the past, this class has given me the opportunity to dig deeper into the legal human rights documents. Through the assignments in the course such as the comparison essay, I was able to further my knowledge about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Although I have read and studied the document before in both Intro to Global Studies and Intro to International Relations, the comparison essay assignment required me to dig deeper into the document than I have had in the past. I learned about key individuals that were involved in the making of the document (Réne Cassin of France, Charles Malik of Lebanon, Peng Chung Chang of China, and John Humphrey of Canada) other than Eleanor Roosevelt which I do not remember from my previous studies of the document. The discussion board assignment about human rights treaties has also furthered my knowledge about legal documents. I was interested in learning more about the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women both because of my connection the the protected group in the document and because it is one of the treaties that the United States has not ratified. I learned about the legal protections for the human rights of women across the world, and enjoyed having the opportunity to read through the whole document instead of just a summary. In addition, while looking through the responses of my classmates in the discussion board, I furthered my understanding of the CEDAW and other legal documents.
        
        I chose to include a photo that represents SDG 5 Target 1 which is “End Discrimination Against Women and Girls.” This went perfectly with the document that I learned about in this module, the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.
        
        Module 2 and my future: This module helped me to examine a legal document in-depth, something that I don’t tend to do in courses or in my daily life, although I have definitely had a few chances to practice. I appreciated the chance to practice this again, and it made me realize how much I have improved at reading difficult documents through my time at Seton Hill. This is applicable to my future career, because I will have to be able to read at times difficult documents and summarize or pair down the information to be more accessible to a larger audience.
- - - - Evidence of Learning: This module was a little more unique because it did not require reading of the assigned course texts but instead beginning research for our final projects which involved lots of reading about our topic of choice. The assignment for this module was an annotated bibliography and required me to practice my research skills in order to create a final annotated bibliography that would help me when writing my final paper. I learned a lot about the Rwandan Genocide in this module, and I worked to narrow my research topic.
        
        I chose the Rwandan flag to represent this module. This is because my final paper, which I was researching for in this module will be about the Rwandan Genocide. I hope to connect R2P to the Rwandan Genocide, which also connects to what I learned in Module 5.
        
        Module 6 and my future: Research is important in both my future career and future academic studies. As far as academic studies goes, this practice with high quality research will be incredibly beneficial when I start a graduate school program. I will be prepared to start research for my class assignments from the very beginning.
        
        Research is also very important no matter what my career looks like. It is a common part of all jobs, but especially where I would like to work in corporate communication. While the end product isn’t a research paper, the skills and background will be beneficial when creating written material, presentations, or compiling research information for one of my coworkers or managers.