Political Science 450: Globalization and Human Rights explores how globalization and human rights are interrelated. While wealthy nations of the Global North historically have given civil and political rights precedence, contemporary human rights discourse tends to view human rights as indivisible. Thus, second and third generation rights—economic, social, cultural, and collective—are now discussed in conjunction with first generation rights (civil and political rights). The course places a particular emphasis on how economic, neo-liberal globalization has impacted human rights in the Global South, but also stresses how neo-liberal globalization has negatively impacted human rights in the Global North.