Human Rights

Description
The concentration in human rights offers a model for educating and training students through socially embedded, transdisciplinary dialogue, research and practice. Course work in the social sciences, law and the humanities will prepare students to critically examine societal problems and to design culturally congruent and contextually specific solutions to human rights dilemmas in such areas as child welfare; economic development; education; environment; health; indigenous rights; labor rights; violence against women and water and energy resources.

The concentration provides students with historical, legal and philosophical perspectives from which to think broadly and critically about human rights issues. It introduces them to social science and policy research on rights, conflict and governance; to human rights conventions, laws and treaties; and to the institutions that seek to uphold these agreements (i.e., international tribunals, nongovernment organizations). Students gain background and skills needed to work within those professions most closely aligned with human rights, including some aspects of law, nongovernment organizations and other nonprofits and policy development.

Requirements

• Students must complete a minimum of 18 credit hours including 12 of upper division hours for this concentration.
• All courses must be completed with a grade of “C” (2.00) or higher.
• The Interdisciplinary Component area requires 9 hours from at least two of these three areas: States and Conflict; Social Stratification and Human Rights; Marginalization and Human Rights. Courses must be from two or more academic areas.

Global Politics of Human Rights 3 Hours Required
Select one course from the following:

POS 368 Ethics and Human Rights (3)
POS 480 Global Justice, G (3)
JUS 352 The Global Politics of Human Rights

Human Rights Institutions and Organizations 3 Hours Required
Select one course from the following:

POS 465 International Organization and Law, SB & G (3)
SGS 321 International Institutions and Global Governance (3)
JUS 355 Human Rights Organiations and Institutions (3)
LAW 709  Interntional Human Rights (2)

Interdisciplinary Component 9 hours Required
Select in consultation with a Justice and Social Inquiry advisor.

Students must select 9 hours of electives on current issues in human rights.

Courses must be taken from at least two of the substantive areas listed below and from two or more academic units. Any course listed below may count toward this requirement, as well as other courses as approved by an academic advisor in the School of Social Transformation.

States and Conflict

HST 370 Eastern Europe in Transition, SB, G, H (3)
HST 436 The Soviet Experiment, SB, G, H (3)
JUS 374 The Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights (3)
JUS 430 Social Protest, Conflict, and Change, (L or SB) & C (3)
JUS 467 Terrorism, War and Justice, SB (3)
JUS 469 Political Deviance and the Law, L or SB, C (3)
LAS 481 Dictatorships and Dirty Wars: Latin American Cinema from Resitance to Reconciliation, HU & G (3)
PHI 448 Justice and Reparations (3)
REL 388 Religion, Ethics and International Politics (3)
SGS 340 Violence, Conflict and Human Rights (3)
SPA 472 Spanish American Civilization, HU, H, G (3)

Social Stratification and Human Rights

AFR 305 The Global History of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, SB, H (3)
AFR 470 Women's International Human Rights (3)
APA 350/JUS 365 Inequality and Diversity in Education, L & C (3) 
JUS 321 Wealth Distribution and Poverty, SB, C (3)
JUS 325 Globalization and Socio-Economic Justice, SB, G (3)
JUS 405 Economic Justice, L or SB, G (3)
JUS 477 Youth and Justice, L or SB, (3)
POS 471 Constitiutional Law, SB (3)
WST 365 Women and International Health, G (3)

Marginalization and Human Rights

AFR 301/JUS 300 Race and Racism in the Africa/African Diaspora, SB, G (3)
AFR 420/JUS 421 Race, Ethnicity and Politics in the African Diaspora, SB, G (3)
AIS 455 / WST 331 / HST 369
JUS 438 Human Differences: Dilemmas of Justice, L or HU, C (3)
JUS 456 Human Rights and Sustainability, L or SB, G (3)
JUS 468 Protest, Justice, Law and the Media, SB (3)
SGS 343 / REL 379 Religion, Nationalism, and Ethnic Conflict, HU & G (3)
WST 313 Women and Sexuality SB, C (3)
WST 345 Gender, Religion, and Global Violence, SB, G (3)
WST 378 Global Feminist Theory, L, C, G (3)

Experiential Learning 3 hours Required
Select in consultation with a Justice and Social Inquiry advisor.

Students must participate in either a for-credit internship with a human rights organization in the U.S. or abroad, or in a Research Experience with Undergraduates (REU).

JUS 484 Internship (3)
JUS 498 Topic: Research Apprenticeship (3)