HRTSCRTU - Human Rights Practice

Undergraduate Certificate

College of Social & Behavioral Sciences

Undergraduate

Human rights challenges - and opportunities - abound around the world. The Undergraduate Certificate in Human Rights Practice will provide you with the knowledge, insights and skills needed to contribute to a more just and equal world. Coursework in Human Rights Practice will enable you to gain a broad understanding of human rights issues around the globe while also offering opportunities to focus on the topics, groups, and locations that concern you the most. The curriculum emphasizes acquiring the practical capabilities that will enable you to work with an organization aligned with the principles of human rights and your own personal and professional commitments to social justice. Courses in the Certificate in Human Rights Practice offer extensive interaction between students and leading practitioners from around the globe through several video conferences in each course. Project-based learning enables students to complete real-world projects alongside work with community members through independent studies, internships, and other coursework.

- Identify many of the multiple and complex causes of human rights abuses.
- Apply a critical theoretical perspective to the development and function of human rights.
- Understand and evaluate best practices that activists use to advance human rights through social movements, litigation, and direct action.
- Adopt and apply a general set of norms and an ethos that is essential to successful human rights practice, especially when working with marginalized groups.
- Demonstrate the ability to locate, evaluate, and synthesize primary and secondary sources in human rights.