Courses in democracy, rights and representation

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights came into being in 1948.

While born out of the Second world war and the Holocaust it also reflected the deeper histories of liberalism, revolutions, colonial rule, ideas of democratic rule, social movements and much, much more.

Today, however, the value of human rights, representation and democracy appears to be in doubt globally. Several of the indexes measuring freedom see backsliding on fundamental rights, the freedom of speech, the freedom of the press and more. And also here and the rest of the West.   

At the college, we therefore want to highlight and explore all these histories and contemporary issues. Let us not take democracy, rights and representation for granted but work to understand better how we secured them through hard work over a long period of time so we don’t lose sight of what is required to preserve them.

You fill find courses across history, politics, philosophy and economics in the daytime and evening as well as face-to-face and online.