Minor in Human Rights
The Human Rights Minor is an interdepartmental, interdisciplinary plan of study requiring 15 credits:
- 6 credits from Core Courses (Group A);
- 6 credits from Electives (Group B) or Core Courses;
- 3 credits of Internship (Group C).
More than six credits may not be taken in one department.
Recommended Course
- HRTS 1007: Introduction to Human Rights
Group A: Core Courses
- ENG3631/HRTS 3631: Literature, Culture, and Humanitarianism
- HIST 3201/HRTS 3201: History of Human Rights
- HIST 3202/HRTS 3202: International Human Rights
- HRTS 3231: Human Rights Through Film
- POLS 3042/HRTS 3042: The Theory of Human Rights
- POLS 3212/HRTS 3212: Comparative Perspectives on Human Rights
- POLS3428/HRTS 3428: The Politics of Torture
- SOCI 3831/HRTS 3831: Human Rights in the United States
- SOC3837/HRTS 3837: Soc. of Global Human Rights
Group B: Core Courses
Anthropology
- ANTH 3026: Peoples and Cultures of North America
- ANTH 3028/HRTS 3028: Indigenous Rights and Aboriginal Australia
- ANTH 3153W/HRTS 3153W: Human Rights in Democratizing Countries
- ANTH /WS 3350: Anthropological Perspectives on Women
Drama
- DRAM 3139/HRTS 3139: Theater and Human Rights
Economics
- ECON 2126/PHIL 2245: Philosophy and Economics
- ECON 2127: Beyond Self-interest
- ECON 3473W: Economic Development
English
- ENGL 3619/HRTS 3619: Topics in Literature and Human Rights History
- ENGL 3629: Holocaust Literature in English
- ENGL 3631/HRTS 3631: Literature, Culture and Humanitarianism
History
- HIST 3207/HRTS 3207: Genocide After the Second World War
- HIST 3531/AASI 3531: Japanese Americans and World War II
- HIST 3562: History of Women and Gender in the United States, 1790-Present
- HIST 3563/HRTS 3563: African American History to 1865
- HIST 3570: American Indian History
- HIST 3770: History of Pan-Africanism
Human Rights
- HRTS 3293: Foreign Study
- HRTS 3295: Special Topics
- HRTS 3298: Variable Topics
- HRTS 3299: Independent Study
Philosophy
- PHIL 2170W/HRTS 2170W: Bioethics and Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspective
- PHIL 2215: Ethics
- PHIL 2245/ECON 2126: Philosophy and Economics
- PHIL 3218: Feminist Theory
- PHIL 3219/HRTS 3219: Topics in Philosophy and Human Rights
- PHIL 3220: Philosophical Foundations of Human Rights
Political Science
- POLS 3256W/HRTS 3256W: Politics & Human Rights in Global Supply Chain
- POLS 3430/HRTS 3130: Evaluating Human Rights Practices of Countries
- POLS 3418/HRTS 3418W: International Organizations and Law
- POLS 3807/HRTS 3807: Constitutional Rights and Liberties
Puerto Rican & Latino Studies
- PRLS 3221/HRTS 3221/HIST 3575: Latinos/as and Human Rights in the United States
Sociology
- SOCI 3221/HRTS 3571/AASI 3221: Sociological Perspectives on Asian American Women
- SOCI 3222/HRTS 3573/AASI 3222: Asian Indian Women: Activism and Social Change
- SOCI 3421/HRTS 3421W: Class, Power, and Inequality
- SOCI 3429/HRTS 3429W: Sociological Perspectives on Poverty
- SOCI 3503W: Prejudice and Discrimination
- SOCI 3505/HRTS 3505/AFAM 3505: White Racism
- SOCI 3801/HRTS 3801W: Political Sociology
- SOCI 3825/HRTS 3825/AFAM 3825: African Americans and Social Protest
- SOC3835/HRTS 3835: Refugee Camps and Humanitarianism
Women's Studies
- WS 2263/HRTS 3263: Women and Violence
Minor Group C: Course
- HRTS 3245: Human Rights Internship and Portfolio
Group C internships are with a human rights-related agency, organization, or group. Students may select an Internship site to fit individual interests and goals. The internship enables students to enrich and assess what they have learned in the classroom through practical experience. The final grade for credits earned in Group C are based on the completion of assignments in which students synthesize their internship experiences with knowledge gained in the course work taken to fulfill the requirements for the Human Rights Minor.
For further information, please contact:
Professor Richard Hiskes, Director of Undergraduate Programs in Human Rights
860-486-2536 or richard.hiskes@uconn.edu
Tina Chiarelli-Helminiak, Graduate Assistant for Undergraduate Programs in Human Rights
860-486-8739 or uconnhrminor@yahoo.com
The Human Rights Major is a program of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.