An Interdisciplinary Approach to Thinking about Human Rights
The interdisciplinary Human Rights Studies minor provides students with a fuller understanding of the origins, theories, and contemporary realities of human rights through the exploration of multiple intellectual spaces of human rights discourse.
Having an understanding of human rights will help students to address issues such as migration and refugees, ethnic cleansing and genocide, discrimination, terrorism, poverty, children’s rights, surveillance, torture, humanitarian intervention, armed conflict, punishment, and more.
Minor Course Offerings
BLST 1950: BLACK WOMEN IN AMERICA
BLST 3410: LAW AND THE BLACK COMMUNITY
CMST 3750: GENDER AND COMMUNICATION
CMST 4120: COMMUNICATION & SOCIAL PROTEST
CMST 4570: INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION GLOBAL
ENVN 4320: ECOLOGICAL SUSTAINABILITY & HUMAN HEALTH
GEOG 4160: URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
HIST 4720: THE HOLOCAUST
INST 2130: GLOBAL CHALLENGES
NAMS 1100: INTRODUCTION TO NATIVE AMERICAN STUDIES
PHIL 1020: CONTEMPORARY MORAL PROBLEMS
PHIL 2030: INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS
PHIL 3040: PHILOSOPHY OF LAW
PHHB 4650: GLOBAL HEALTH
PSCI 3130: WOMEN AND POLITICS
PSCI 3240: POLITICS OF HUMAN RIGHTS
PSCI 4260: INTERNATIONAL LAW
RELI 2020: RELIGION AND HUMAN RIGHTS
RELI 3020: NATIVE AMERICAN RELIGIONS
SOC 3900: RACE AND ETHNICITY
SOC 4740: SOCIAL JUSTICE & SOCIAL CHANGE
SOC 4760: ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
TED 2200: HUMAN RELATIONS