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Curriculum
The concentration is designed to allow flexibility for students’ specialty within Human Rights (Illustrative Examples: Human Rights and Development; Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility; Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs; Human Rights and Climate Change; Gender Rights; Refugee Rights, etc.) Students may also choose to focus more generally on the field of Human Rights without specialty.
The Human Rights (HR) Concentration requires 15 credits, consisting of 1 core required course; 12 additional credits; 1 approved capstone workshop in the final semester.
In addition to the following Concentration requirements, all MIA and MPA students must complete a capstone workshop in their final semester. Except for the two-semester EPD workshop sequence, all capstones are open to students from any Concentration. For more information about capstones workshops, please click here.
Human Rights Track Core Requirements
Course Number |
Course Title |
INAF U6751 |
International Human Rights Law |
SIPA U9000 |
Human Rights Electives - 12-credits required
The elective courses below are suggestions only. Students may choose from elective courses not listed below that are related to their area of specialty within human rights, as long as approved by the Concentration Director.
Course Number |
Course Title |
INAF U6751 |
International Human Rights Law (recommended) |
EMPA U6036 |
Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility |
| INAF U4090 | Humanitarian Affairs Practicum (1 pt.) |
| INAF U4420 | Oil, Rights & Development (1 pt.) |
| INAF U4759 | Human Rights Practicum (1 pt.) |
| INAF U6041 | Corporate Social Responsibility: A Human Rights Approach |
| INAF U6151 | Children’s Rights |
| INAF U6190 | Complex Emergencies: From Root Causes to Rebuilding |
| INAF U6405 | Human Rights and Development Policy |
| INAF U6406 | International Response to Landmine Challenge |
| INAF U6424 | Political Development in the Third World |
| INAF U6490 | International Humanitarian Law (1 pt.) |
| INAF U6495 | Politics and Practice of Humanitarian Affairs |
| INAF U6497 | Humanitarian Crisis – East Congo (1 pt.) |
| INAF U6760 | Managing Risk in Natural and Other Disasters |
| INAF U6802 | International Law |
| INAF U6807 | International Conflict Resolution: Theories and Methods |
| INAF U8094 | Labor Rights in a Global Economy |
| INAF U8172 | Theory, History, and Practice of Human Rights |
| INAF U8178 | Re-thinking Human Rights |
| INAF U8180 | Human Rights Skills & Advocacy |
| INAF U8189 | Politics of History and Reconciliation |
| INAF U8556 | Preventive Diplomacy / Conflict Resolution: UN |
| INAF U8690 | Managing Complex Emergencies |
| INAF U8738 | Peacemaking/Peacekeeping |
| INAF U8785 | Gender, Politics, and Development |
| INAF U8885 | Conflict Assessment |
| LAW L6276 | Human Rights |
| LAW L6250 | Immigration Law |
| LAW L6459 | The Law of Genocide (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8020 | Global Poverty and Human Rights: Selected Issues |
| LAW L8044 | Human Rights and Economic Justice in the U.S. (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8144 | The Legal and Political Economy of Hunger (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8152 | Reproductive Health and Human Rights (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8193 | Race Discrimination in U.S. / Anti-Roma Discrimination in Eastern Europe Compared (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8816 | Transnational Business and Human Rights (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8887 | September 11 and the Rights of Non-Citizens (2 pts.) |
| LAW L9060 | Immigration Law and Policy (2 pts.) |
| LAW L9164 | Labor Rights in a Global Economy |
| LAW L9165 | Transitional Justice |
| LAW L9183 | Nuremberg Trials and War Crimes Law (2 pts.) |
| LAW L9220 | Race and Poverty Law (2 pts) |
| LAW L9252 | Human Rights, Law, and Development Workshop (2 pts.) |
| LAW L9383 | International Humanitarian Law (2 pts.) |
| LAW L9563 | Mental Health Law (2 pts.) |
| LAW L9823 | Human Rights and the Question of Culture |
| LAW L9832 | Human Rights Reparations Under Domestic and International Law (2 pts.) |
| LAW L8829 | International Human Rights Advocacy (2 pts.) |
| POPF P8260 | Protection of Children in Disaster and War (1.5 pts.) |
| POPF P8642 | Program Evaluation in Humanitarian Settings (1.5 pts.) |
| POPF P8678 | Humanitarian Settings (1.5 pts.) |
| POPF P8679 | Investigative Methods in Complex Emergencies |
| POPF P8683 | Psychosocial and Mental Health Issues in Forced Migration (1.5 pts.) |
| POPF P8687 | Public Health and Humanitarian Action |
| POPF P8673 | Refugee Reproductive Health |
| POPF P8692 | Law, Policy & Rights in the Context of Public Health |
| POPF P8709 | Sexuality, Gender, Health & Human Rights |
| POPF P9630 | Applying Ethical and Human Rights Practice in Public Health (1-2 pts.) |
| ICHR G4020 | Intro to Human Rights |
| HRTS G4810 | Religion & Human Rights (spring 2011) |
| HRTS G4800 | International Human Rights Law |
| REGN U6149 | Energy, Corporate Responsibility & Human Rights (spring 2011) |
| REGN U8177 | Human Rights in Post-Communist Eurasia (spring 2011) |
| SOSC P9719 | Critical Perspectives on Research in Gender, Sexuality and Health |