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Quick Facts
| Medium Of Instructions | Mode Of Learning | Mode Of Delivery |
|---|---|---|
| English | Self Study | Video and Text Based |
Course Overview
The Human rights law and criminal justice online course is an offline undergraduate level core course offered to all students from one online platform.. The course is included in the MOOC programs provided by the online platform called SWAYAM Swayam which is an Indian Government initiative to promote accessible premium education to all with feasible and minimum requirements.
This is regulated by the country's best national authorities and this course is under Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC) which controls this course of L.M.S Law college in Imphal. The course is hosted by the same college under the guidance of Dr. N. Pramod Singh. The Human rights law and criminal justice certification benefits also come with credit eligibility which can only be claimed by appearing and clearing the proctored end-term examinations.
This course mainly focuses on exploring the connections between criminal justice and human rights in which key concepts such as role of different level of courts, importance of correction centres and jails, various law enforcement agencies, protection of women’s and children rights under criminal and international laws and so on are discussed in the Human right law and criminal justice programme to provide a comprehensive understanding regarding the topic.
The Highlights
- The course provided by Swayam
- Under the authority of the CEC national control center
- Hosted by L.M.S Law college in Imphal
- Credit eligible
- Official certification after qualifying with all criteria
- Experienced instructor guidance
- Free course content
- An undergraduate-level core course
- The course duration of 12 weeks
Programme Offerings
- Discussion Forums
- Online Classes
- Proctored final exam
- Internal assessments
- Weekly Assignments
- Instructor-led
- Weekly quizzes
- video lectures
Courses and Certificate Fees
| Certificate Availability | Certificate Providing Authority |
|---|---|
| yes | LMS Law College, Imphal |
Eligibility Criteria
Certification qualifying details
To be eligible for Human Rights Law and Criminal justice certification by Swayam, and L.M.S Law College, Imphal Manipur as well as credit transfer, the students must enroll in the end-term examination separately. This proctored examination is to be registered with an additional payment of a given amount. The overall grading is based on 30% from the internal grades and 70% from the proctored final examination.
What you will learn
From the Human rights law and Criminal justice training, students build and upskill their law acumen on various aspects such as:
- Students will widely discuss the possible multiple reasons and causes that are responsible for human rights violation of and by the people to give a comprehensive idea regarding the topic.
- Students will analyze the crimes in reference to their political, social, civic, cultural, economic, as well as educational rights to give a broader picture regarding the crime.
- Students will also keenly analyze the factors and also the circumstances that have led commission of crimes against disabled people, children, and women.
- The Human rights law and criminal justice certification syllabus shed light on drawing the relationship between criminal justice along with laws of human rights with case studies.
- How the aggrieved individuals can seek free legal support and services under the Indian procedures and laws are taught in detail to the students.
- The importance of Jail, juvenile homes, and reformation centers in India are well taught to the students in-depth.
- The different types of issues that are faced by the prison system, jails, and juvenile homes including close study of legal safeguards are provided to the students.
- The protection of the human rights of the prisoners is identified by the students as one of the primary concerns faced by the modern Indian law system.
- The role of each level of courts such as the Supreme court, high court, and subordinate course in law enforcement is detailed to the students to give a crisp idea of how the law is enforced in India.
- Both national and international perspectives are taken into study on the Human rights law and Criminal justice training, on Human rights and justice implementations which will provide the learners with multiple opinions on the same topic.
Who it is for
The following learners can find the Human rights law and Criminal justice by SWAYAM as a suitable course:
- Learners like human rights lawyer with a desire to build a law based knowledge and to explore the criminal justice and laws prevailing in the country can apply to this course.
- Students aspiring to build an impeccable career or looking for academic research purposes can also find talso enroll in this course.
Admission Details
Students need to undergo an online registration process in order to apply to human rights and international criminal law course in which the course content is absolutely free for all registered candidates and the paid version will grant examination registration that is required to be cleared in order to get certification and credit eligibility.
The learners can follow the below given procedure to get registered for the Human Rights Law and Criminal Justice classes:
Step: 1- Firstly, the students should visit the course homepage using the URL- https://onlinecourses.swayam2.ac.in/cec21_hs08/preview.
Step: 2- Open a SWAYAM account or link one of your social media accounts like Gmail for signing up on the website and complete the ID verification as well.
Step: 3- After profile creation, fill in all the necessary details which are requested and complete the profile information updating.
Step: 4- the students can then come back to the course and click on the Join option in order to register for the course. The registration for the course is done.
Step: 5- if the student needs only the content without certification, they can stop till the previous step. But if they wish to get certification and course eligibility, they are required to pay an examination amount within the given deadline.
Step: 6- If it's an upcoming course, students are requested to wait until the course commences and will be informed through mail.
The Syllabus
- Constitutional mechanism for enforcement of Human Rights
- Role of Supreme Court under the constitution of India
- Role of High Court
- Role of Subordinate judiciary
- Public Interest Litigation
- Origin and development of Legal Aid
- Related provision of Legal Aid under the Indian Laws
- Human Rights under the Preventive Detention Laws
- Safeguard against other General and Special Criminal Laws
- Right against Arbitrary Arrest
- Right against Torture
- Right of Accused Person
- Right to Legal Aid and assistant for the accused person
- Emergency provision under the constitution
- International standard norms of Human Rights during Emergency
- Judicial responses to the protection of Human Rights during the Emergency
- Rights of detenues under the Indian Laws
- Protection of Human Rights for Male prisoners
- Protection of Human rights for Women Prisoners
- Judicial approach to protection of prisoner’s rights
- Nature and scope of criminal justice system in India
- Administration of justice and the role of the court
- Justice delivery system under the criminal laws
- Protection of accused person under the Indian Laws
- Role of police under the criminal Laws
- Importance of investigation in criminal justicing system
- law enforcement agencies and custodial crimes against men
- Law enforcement agencies and custodial crime against women and children
- Theories of Punishments
- Importance of Jail
- Reformation of Jail manuals and rules
- Importance of Juvenile homes in India
- Reformation of Juvenile Homes
- Protection of Women Rights under the criminal Laws of India
- Protection of Women Rights under the International Law
- Protection of Child Rights under the criminal Laws of India
- Protection of child rights under the International law
- Meaning and definition of disabled person and their legal status
- Disability and Human Rights: National and International Perspectives
- Right to free Legal Aid of the disable people and judicial response to their problem