Human Right Studies, Minor College of Letters & Science
The Human Rights Minor provides students with an opportunity to explore human rights as a critical element of our contemporary world.
Courses in the minor approach human rights as a problem for humanity, policy, advocacy and humanitarian action, as well as a subject for historical, ethical, social scientific and cultural study. Students will examine moments of terrible human rights abuse: genocide, slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and sexual and gender-based violence. They will also learn about movements to protect and promote human rights, including the elaboration of the contemporary human rights régime, efforts by international and local non-governmental human rights organizations, and artistic and literary responses to human rights challenges.
The minor is administered by the Human Rights Studies Program.
Program Objectives
In addition to completing HMR 134, students must take three additional Core Courses and one course from the Elective Course list.
Advising
Consult the Department office.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| HMR 134 | Human Rights | 4 |
| Core Courses (12 Units) | ||
| Choose three from the following: | 12 | |
| Art, Architecture, & Human Rights | ||
| Special Topics in Human Rights | ||
| Genocide | ||
| Human Rights in the Middle East | ||
| Human Rights, Gender, & Sexuality | ||
| Human Rights & the Popular Imagination | ||
| Art & Politics of Memory: Truth, Justice, Reconciliation & Human Rights | ||
| Human Rights in Latin America | ||
| The History of Human Rights in Europe | ||
| Seminar | ||
In addition to the courses listed above, any HMR course between 100-199 will count towards the core course requirement. | ||
| Human Rights Studies Subtotal | 16 | |
| Elective Courses (4 Units) | ||
| Choose one from the following or seek the approval of the program advisor for an unlisted course that treats a human rights related topic: | 4 | |
| Suggested Electives | ||
| Race & Ethnicity in Latin America | ||
| Race, Culture & Society in the United States | ||
| Anthropology of Development | ||
| Slavery, Africa, & the Atlantic World | ||
| History of the Holocaust | ||
| The Memory of the Holocaust | ||
| Women & Gender in Latin American History | ||
| Latin American Social Revolutions | ||
| History of Sexuality in America | ||
| Ethnopolitics of South American Indians | ||
| The Politics of Global Inequality | ||
| The Political Economy of International Migration | ||
| Other Electives | ||
| Women & Development | ||
| Cultural Dimensions of Globalization | ||
| United States-Mexican Border Relations | ||
| Postcolonial Africa | ||
| American Environmental History | ||
| History of Black People & American Race Relations: 1860-Present | ||
| Women & Islamic Discourses | ||
| Native American Women | ||
| Ethnic Self-Determination & International Conflict | ||
| Comparative Development: Politics & Inequality | ||
| Politics of Africa: Development in Africa | ||
| The Constitutional Politics of the Equality | ||
| Women in Politics | ||
| Latino Politics | ||
| Racial Politics | ||
| Race Relations | ||
| Sociology of the Environment | ||
| Gender & Law | ||
| Women's Movements in Transnational Perspective | ||
WMS 148 | (Discontinued) | |
| Queer Studies | ||
| Gender & Experience of Race | ||
| Globalization, Gender & Culture | ||
| Gender in the Arab World | ||
| Elective Courses Subtotal | 4 | |
| Total Units | 20 | |