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Human Rights and Development

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The Human Rights and Development Focus allows students to center their EPD coursework on human rights issues in developing countries. Students interested in human rights issues may also want to refer to the courses offered by the Human Rights Concentration and the Humanitarian Affairs Program.

The courses below are pre-approved for the Human Rights and Development Focus.  Please keep in mind that not all of these courses are offered each year, nor is this an exhaustive list.   Be sure to consult the appropriate course bulletins and Registration Guides for the most up-to-date information.

U – SIPA G – Graduate School of Arts & Sciences
B – Business School L   – Law School
P – Mailman School of Public Health W – Fundraising Management

Course Number

Course Name

U6230

Climate Change, Development, and Human Rights

L8239

Corporate Social Responsibility and Human Rights

U6041

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Human Rights Perspective

U4710

Extractive Industries:  Rights and Development

U6404

Gender and International Human Rights

P8639

Gender-Based Violence in Complex Emergencies

L8042

Globalization & Human Rights

U6405

Human Rights & Development Policy

U4090

Humanitarian Affairs Practicum

U8186

Humanitarian Challenges

U6492

Humanitarianism, Vintage 2008

L6751

International Human Rights Law

L9164

Labor Rights in a Global Economy

U4420

Oil, Rights and Development

U8551

Protecting Children from Violence, Exploitation and Abuse

P8620

Protection of Children in War & Disaster

L8191

Protection of Social and Economic Rights

U8178

Rethinking Human Rights

P8709

Seminar in Sexuality, Gender Health and Human Rights

U8469

Slavery & Race Theories in Brazil

U8360

Social Movements and Social Change

U8818

Topics in International Ethics