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TEACHING HUMAN RIGHTS ONLINE WINS APSA WEB AWARD
The American Political Science Association Information Technology and
Politics Section selected THRO as this year's best web site in political
science. The award was presented at the APSA annual meeting in San
Francisco on September 1.
THRO provides six free online exercises and interactive study guides for
use as course modules in political science, international relations,
area studies, philosophy, history, and women’s studies; as well as
professional classes in law, education, and business.
1. A JUST WAR? PRESIDENT CLINTON’S RESPONSE TO KOSOVO
Spanish and French translations online: ¿Una Guerra Justa? and Une
Guerre Juste?
2. THE INTERNATIONAL COURT OF JUSTICE CONSIDERS GENOCIDE: Bosnia v.
Yugoslavia
3. RAPE AND GENOCIDE IN RWANDA: The ICTR's Akayesu Verdict
4. Slavery in Burma? Doe v. Unocal
5. PRIME MINISTER RAO'S DILEMMA: TERRORISM AND HUMAN RIGHTS IN INDIA
6. Shah Bano: Muslim Women’s Rights
Students who work the problems online or on CD-ROM receive immediate,
individualized feedback to forced choice and short answer self
assessment questions designed to enhance critical thinking skills. Each
peer-reviewed case can also be printed from a single file for use in
hardcopy.
Case teaching notes explain how to use the online modules for in-class
discussion and collaborative learning simulation exercises supported by
email and electronic bulletin board communication. A global network of
THRO associates conducts online text and H.323 internet videoconference
simulations and discussions between students from different colleges in
the U.S. and abroad. Actual rather than hypothetical human rights
disputes are used to promote cross cultural communication with
asynchronous and synchronous text, audio, and video software.
Faculty at over twenty universities have used THRO exercises that
challenge students to make informed, well reasoned choices in classes on
International Governance, Ethics and International Relations,
Comparative Government, Human Rights, Modern World History, Critical
Thinking, Philosophy of Law, Women’s Rights, Educational Philosophy, and
Social Change.
University of Cincinnati Political Science Professor Howard Tolley, Jr.
directs the project in collaboration with Professor Dan Wheeler, College
of Education, and Bert Lockwood, Jr. Director, Urban Morgan Institute
for Human Rights, College of Law and Editor in Chief of the Human Rights
Quarterly. A global network currently includes faculty associates in
Australia, India, South Africa, Turkey, the United Kingdom and ten U.S.
states.
The project has received grant support from the U.S. institute of Peace
and the Ohio Learning Network. The American Political Science
Association Information Technology and Politics Section selected THRO as
the best web site in political science for 2001. THRO cases are
published as an electronic journal, ISSN 1529-2207, © All rights
reserved. Individuals interested in assisting with case development,
peer review, pilot tests, assessment, and training workshops should
contact Howard.Tolley@uc.edu
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