Service Learning
Library resources to support NWACC service learning projects.
Introduction
This project teaches students about international human rights law, how governments violate these rights, and international governance that reports on HR violations. Students may code, write letters about, and/or do public presentations on HR violations; and they may also work with various local groups to assist and empower marginalized groups.
Past student projects included raising money for the Starfish Scholarship (that goes to NWACC students who were in the foster care system) and building bed frames for children without beds with the group Sleep in Heavenly Peace.
Search Tools (Research Databases)
- SocINDEX With Full Text This link opens in a new window This database is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. In addition to nearly 900 full-text journals, SocINDEX With Full Text also contains informative abstracts for more than 1,500 "core" coverage journals dating as far back as 1895. The database also provides data mined from nearly 420 "priority" coverage journals and over 2,900 "selective" coverage journals.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new window Limit to Open Access Content and/or Publication Type: Journals to find broad, multidisciplinary, full-text database of journals and books published by John Wiley & Sons h access to over 4 million articles from 1500 journals, over 15,000 online books, and hundreds of reference works and laboratory protocols.
- World History (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window Aligned to state and national curriculum standards, World History in Context provides an overview of world history that covers the most-studied events, periods, cultures, civilizations, religions, conflicts, wars, ideologies, cultural movements, and people.
- Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window Offers authoritative reference content alongside magazine and journal articles, primary sources, videos, audio podcasts, and images. Covering a vast array of people from historically significant figures to present-day newsmakers, it’s continuously updated to ensure that students have access to the very latest information.
- Sociology Database This link opens in a new window Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory of sociology, social psychology, substance abuse and addiction and more. This collection provides full-text coverage of many core titles included in Sociological Abstracts and Social Services Abstracts. Coverage: 1985 - current. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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- ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window Serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covering more than 160 subjects areas, ProQuest Central is the largest aggregated database of periodical content. This award-winning online reference resource features a highly-respected, diversified mix of content including scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, books, newspapers, reports and videos. *This is a Traveler resource. The Traveler Statewide Resource project was made possible in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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E-books
Human Rights by
The United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1945) was a response to the atrocities surrounding the Second World War. Many believe this Declaration resulted from a synthesis of three thousand years of Western (Judeo-Christian) philosophy, religion and culture. Now more than 60 years later, we ask, "have the principles outlined in the Declaration been realised in the way in which human rights are recognised and protected in today's world?" Several authors have responded to the challenge of addressing this question. Their responses are contained in the seven chapters of this text. This book examines Islamic, secular, animist, etc. societies in its search for potential advocates of human rights progress. Essential to any progress will be the willingness of individuals, faith organisations and governments to subordinate self-interests for the sake of the vulnerable human being. Until this happens, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights will remain a concept, yet to be realised.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781624173530Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Human Rights by
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948. A burgeoning human rights movement followed, yielding many treaties and new international institutions and shaping the constitutions and laws of many states. Yet human rights continue to be contested politically and legally and there is substantial philosophical and theoretical debate over their foundations and implications. In this volume, distinguished philosophers, political scientists, international lawyers, environmentalists and anthropologists discuss some of the most difficult questions of human rights theory and practice: what do human rights require of the global economy? Does it make sense to secure them by force? What do they require in jus post bello contexts of transitional justice? Is global climate change a human rights issue? Is there a human right to democracy? Does the human rights movement constitute moral progress? For students of political philosophy, human rights, peace studies and international relations.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781107003064Publication Date: 2013-05-23
Human Rights by
Human Rights: An Introduction is an important text that provides a comprehensive overview of human rights and related issues from a social science perspective. First, this book does more than discuss theory, it uses case studies and personal testimonies in the debate. Human rights as an area of academic interest cannot be easily divorced from human rights struggles and the reality of contemporary conditions. Second, the book is aimed at what is an emerging and growing cross-disciplinary field of study. Human rights issues are increasingly coming to the fore in a number of academic debates. Whereas the study of human rights has traditionally been included in departments of law, international relations and philosophy, a number of courses are now being set up in departments of sociology and anthropology. Consequently, there is an increasing need to bring these disparate approaches together.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780582438248Publication Date: 2002-09-30
Humanitarian Intervention by
This unique and wide-ranging history of humanitarian intervention examines responses to oppression, persecution and mass atrocities from the emergence of the international state system and international law in the late sixteenth century, to the end of the twentieth century.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9780521190275Publication Date: 2011-04-07
Human Rights Innovators by
Human Rights Innovators highlights hundreds of key figures who fought for human rights around the globe.
Call Number: eBookISBN: 9781682171578Publication Date: 2016-10-30
Books in Library
Women's Human Rights by Call Number: HV 1215.15 .H86 1998ISBN: 9780190614614Publication Date: 2017-11-01- Human Rights Innovators by Call Number: JC 571 .H76956 2016 v.1ISBN: 9781682171578Publication Date: 2016-10-30
The Coddling of the American Mind by Call Number: JC 599 .U5 L85 2018ISBN: 9780735224896Publication Date: 2018-09-04
Restoring Free Speech and Liberty on Campus by Call Number: LC 72.2 .D69 2005ISBN: 0521839874Publication Date: 2004-12-13
