CRJ 301 Justice and the Nature of Rights
Course assesses and evaluates the fundamental core concepts essential to any effective justice model—namely the concept and idea of justice as well as discernment of a legal or human right. Course invites students to tackle the many nuances of justice, its definition and meaning, its application and use, and to examine injustice as its contrary meaning. At the other end of the course sequence, the idea of right is fully critiqued, asking perennial questions relating to the origin of a right, the power or permanency of any right, the distinction between legal rights and human rights and the metaphysical grounding rights in Catholic tradition and the grant of any right based on human dignity