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There are several
colleges where students can minor or concentrate in human
rights. There are also numerous opportunities for the graduate
study of human rights. We have compiled a list of the ones
we know of.
These lists are
not comprehensive, although we would like them to be.
If you have any additions or corrections, please contact hrp@bard.edu.
undergraduate
programs
graduate
programs
law
schools
programs
outside the US
academic
research and policy institutes
undergraduate
programs
University of Chicago
Center for Human Rights
The Center for Human
Rights is a part of Chicago's Center for International Studies.
It offers courses in human rights which are open to both undergraduates
and graduate students. Offerings in human rights are structured
around an interdisciplinary set of three core courses.
The University
of Connecticut Human Rights Institute
In 2001, an interdisciplinary
Human Rights Minor was established at the university and presently
has over 30 students.
University of Dayton
Human Rights Education and Communication Project
The Human Rights
Education and Communication Project offers an undergraduate
degree in International Relations with a focus in Human Rights.
Haverford College Peace and Conflict Studies
Peace and Conflict
Studies is a concentration which draws upon the college's
long-standing interest in war, conflict and peacemaking and
social justice, as well as questions associated with the fields
of anthropology, history, political science, social psychology,
economics and sociology. It draws on these fields for theoretical
understandings of matters such as bargaining, internal causes
of conflict, cooperative and competitive strategies of negotiation,
intergroup relations, and the role of institutions in conflict
management.
Hunter College Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Latin American and
Caribbean Studies is an interdisciplinary program that offers
a BA. It also arranges internships for Hunter College students
to work with organizations based in New York City that promote
Latin American and Caribbean human rights. During internships,
students are expected to enroll in human rights-related courses,
which can be used to satisfy core course requirements for
the major.
St. Thomas University BA in Human Rights
St. Thomas offers
students the opportunity to major in human rights provided
they complete a second major in any other subject area.
Swarthmore
College Peace and Conflict Studies
The Peace and Conflict
Studies Concentration at Swarthmore College is a multidisciplinary
program designed to teach students to understand the causes,
practices, and consequences of collective violence (war),
terrorism, and peaceful or nonviolent methods of conflict
management and resolution.
Trinity
College Human Rights Program
Trinity offers a
minor in human rights, which consists of five courses and
an integrating exercise.
Tufts University The EPIIC
Program
EPIIC (Education
for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship) is a year-long
academic colloquium for undergraduate and graduate students.
It is organized around a different theme each year (the 2000-2001
theme is "Race and Ethnicity: A Global Comparative Inquiry").
Students engage in coursework, take on responsibilities in
organizing a conference on the theme, and also have the opportunity
to pursue internships.
Webster
University Center
for
the Study of the Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights
The Center offers
both undergraduate and gradute courses in human rights, as
well as the study of genocide and the Holocaust.
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graduate
programs
University
of Chicago Center for Human Rights
The Center for Human
Rights is a part of Chicago's Center for International Studies.
It offers courses in human rights which are open to both undergraduates
and graduate students. Offerings in human rights are structured
around an interdisciplinary set of three core courses.
Columbia University,
MA in International Affairs at SIPA
Master of International
Affairs: The School of International & Public Affairs
(SIPA) offers a two-year master's degree in International
Affairs (MIA) with a concentration in Human Rights & Humanitarian
Affairs. Though some students combine this program with a
law degree, the MIA program is designed to prepare students
for a wide range of non-legal careers concerned with human
rights, such as in policy & research, monitoring &
peacekeeping, or NGO & governmental work.
Columbia University,
Human Rights Study Program
Students can earn
an MA degree in Human Rights in two years, as part of Columbia's
graduate Liberal Studies program. The program encompasses
courses that are offered by various humanities departments
within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, as well as
those that are offered by several of Columbia University's
professional schools, including Law, Journalism, Business,
Social Work, Public Health, Teachers College, and SIPA.
Tufts
University, the EPIIC Program
The MA, , is a one-year combined degree offered by the School
of Nutrition Science and Policy and the Fletcher School of
Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. The program is geared
toward mid-career professionals who have significant field
experience in humanitarian assistance. It is also a program
of the Feinstein International
Famine Center.
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law
schools
American
University Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Columbia
Law School Human Rights Institute
DePaul
College of Law: International Human Rights Law Institute
Fordham
University, The Joseph R. Crowley Program in International
Human Rights
Dred
& Harriet Scott Institute for International Human Rights,
Hamline University
Harvard
Law School Human Rights Program
Northwestern
University School of Law Center for Internatioanl Human Rights
Center
for Civil and Human RIghts, Notre Dame Law School
Urban
Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati
College of Law
University
of Nottingham School of Law, Human Rights Law Centre
Center
for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Washington College
of Law
Yale
Law School, The Schell Center
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programs outside the US
Carleton
Universtiy (Canada) B.A. in Human Rights
The Combined B.A. (Honours) in Human Rights is a multi-disciplinary
program involving the departments of Law, Philosophy, Political
Science, and Sociology/Anthropology. Human rights are examined
along four dimensions: (a) human rights law, institutions
and practices, (b) contexts of inequality and power, (c) ethical
and theoretical issues and justifications of human rights,
and (d) cultural and cross-cultural contexts.
European Master's Degree in Human Rights and Democratization
Organised by 15
Universities in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, The Netherlands,
Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, with the support
of the European Union, the Region of Veneto and the Municipality
of Venice, as well as the sponsorship of Unesco and the United
Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Institute for Human
Rights, Abo Akademi University (Finland)
The Institute for
Human Rights was founded in 1985 as an integrated unit of
the Åbo Akademi University and its Department of Law.
The aim of the Institute is to promote research, provide education
and disseminate information relating to the protection of
human rights. The Institute assists various outside institutions,
including other universities, government authorities and mass
media in human rights research, policy-making and dissemination
of human rights information.
Institute for Human
Rights, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium)
The Institute for
Human Rights was founded in 1987. It forms part of the Department
of Public Law of the Faculty of Law of the University of Leuven.
The Institute is in charge of the courses on international
human rights law (in English and Dutch) within the law programme.
The members of the Institute conduct research in a wide range
of issues of international human rights law. The Institute
closely collaborates with other Flemish law faculties in the
Interuniversitair Centrum Mensenrechten. It organizes a Summer
Course on Human Rights together with the Dutch School of Human
Rights Research. The Institute also participates in the thematic
network ProHuman, a Project on Humanitarian Development Studies.
St. Thomas University (Canada) B.A. in Human Rights
Students attending
St. Thomas University may do a major in Human Rights, provided
they do a major in another discipline.
The
Raoul Wallenberg Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian
Law
Faculty of Law,
Lund University, Sweden
The Raoul Wallenberg
Institute of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law is an academic
institution formed in 1984 at the Faculty of Law at Lund University,
Sweden. The purpose of the Institute is to promote research,
training and academic education in the fields of human rights
and humanitarian law. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute is named
after Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat, in order to pay
homage to his well-known work in Hungary towards the end of
the Second World War. The Faculty of Law offers several international
M.A. degrees, including an M.A.
in Human Rights and Intellectual Property as well as an
M.A.
in International Human Rights Law.
Moscow School of Human Rights (Russia)
The Moscow School
of Human Rights is a non-governmental and non-commercial organization
functioning in the sphere of additional education. In 1994-1995
the International Fund “Cultural Initiative” (Soros
Foundation) and the Ministry of Education of Russia organized
a competition of innovation projects under the motto “New
ways in humanitarian education in Russia”. More than
600 projects took part in the competition. Among the 30 winners
of the 1st degree grant was the project “Human rights.
Education in Russia”, which provided for setting up
this school.
The
Human Rights Centre, University of Essex
The Human Rights
Centre coordinated the University's interdisciplinary human
rights teaching programme as well as a programme of research,
training, external consultancy and publication on international,
comparative and national aspects of human rights. The Departments
of Law, Government, Philosophy and Sociology all contribute
to the work of the Centre, which has a world-wide reputation
for its teaching and research.
Programme Plurifacultaire "Action Humanitare" Universtiy
of Geneva
Since November 1998,
a Masters in Humanitarian Action has been offered at the University
of Geneva. This Master is co-ordinated by its multi-faculty
programme in Humanitarian Action (known in short as ppAH -
programme plurifacultaire Action Humanitaire). Its aim is
to analyse humanitarian action in a variety of contexts.
The programme is organised around 4 different issues: armed
conflicts, natural disasters, the population movements they
trigger and the major social problems encountered in industrialised
societies (abuse, detention, exclusion and deprivation...)
Institute for Human Rights, University of Latvia
Nested in the Faculty
of Law, the Institute promotes research in the fields of human
rights and human rights education by developing and implementing
human rights courses and promoting the dissemination of information
by publishing the Latvian Human Rights Quarterly and other
training materials.
MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights,
Institute
of Commonwealth Studies, University of London
This course is interdisciplinary
in character, and it is aimed at individuals who are already,
or wish to become human rights professionals and activists.
In addition the course is suitable for academics, journalists,
public servants and employees of intergovernmental agencies.
In contrast to many other such programmes which place emphasis
on law, this course draws widely upon philosophy, history,
sociology, anthropology, political science and development
economics as well as law.
Human
Rights Research and Education Centre, University of Ottawa
(Canada)
A research institute with the following mandate: "Furthering
the discussion of the linkages between human rights, governance,
legal reform and development; Supporting national human rights
institutions in Canada and Abroad; Evaluating and working
to improve domestic social justice institutions and programs;
Engaging in multidisciplinary research and education in the
above areas."
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria (South
Africa)
The Centre for Human Rights, University of Pretoria, is one
of the most active human rights institutions on the African
continent. Highlights in its history since it was established
in 1986 include the Centre's involvement in the writing of
the South African Constitution and Bill of Rights, its involvement
in the UN treaty body study for the UN High Commissioner for
Human Rights and the Centre's human rights outreach programmes.
Focus areas are human rights in Africa, socio-economic rights
and gender issues.
Center for Applied
Legal Studies, Universtiy of the Witwatersrand
The Centre for Applied Legal Studies has, for 21 years, engaged
in research, public interest litigation, training and law
reform work. Founded by Professor John Dugard, in the 1970s,
the Centre was a pioneer in the development of Human Rights
in South Africa in the apartheid years. Areas of study include:
land rights law, labour law, gender law, and constitutional
law.
University
for Peace
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academic
research and policy institutes
Harvard University,
Carr Center for Human Rights Policy
The Carr Center
is a research, teaching and training program that critically
examines the policies and actions of governments, international
organizations, and independent actors that affect the realization
of human rights around the world.
Colby College, Oak Institute for the Study of International
Human Rights
Each year the Institute
hosts an Oak Human Rights Fellow to teach and conduct research
while at residence in the College. The fellow organizes lectures
and other events centered around their area of expertise.
University of California, Berkeley Human Rights Center
The faculty and
staff of the Human Rights Center conduct interdisciplinary
research on emerging issues in international human rights
and humanitarian law. The activities of the Human Rights Center
include: support for student research on human rights and
humanitarian law; formation of research groups to study the
health, social, and cultural consequences of gross violations
of human rights and the rules of war; research and teaching
fellowships for human rights activists and other professionals
research fellows; and summer fellowships for students to work
with human rights organizations worldwide.
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