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Moderation + Graduation Requirements

  • Moderation Requirements
    Students moderate into the Human Rights Program alone or in combination with another program
    (usually through a joint Moderation), by fulfilling the other program’s requirements and the following
    program requirements: 

    HR core course (see list below)
    HR core course (see list below)
    HR core course (see list below)
    HR 4-credit elective course

    Moderation Requirements

    • HR core course (see list below)
    • HR core course (see list below)
    • HR core course (see list below)
    • HR 4-credit elective course

    Examples of HR core courses:

    HR 101 Introduction to Human Rights
    HR 105 Human Rights Advocacy
    HR 125 Human Rights: What Remains?
    HR 213 Gay Rights, Human Rights
    HR 224 Lexicon of Migration
    HR 226 Women's Rights, Human Rights
    HR 233 Problems in Human Rights
    HR 234 (Un)defining the Human
    HR 242 Arguing with the Supreme Court
    HR 243 Constitutional Law
    ANTH/HR 261 Anthropology of Violence and
    Suffering
    ARTH/HR 289 Rights and the Image
    LIT/HR 218 Free Speech
    LIT 2509 Telling Stories About Rights
    PHIL 130 Philosophy and Human Rights
    HIST 2631 Capitalism and Slavery
    HIST 222 History of the Modern Police
    HIST 2356 American Indian History
    SPAN 240 Testimonies of Latin America

  • Graduation Requirements
    Following Moderation, students take at least three additional 4-credit courses in human rights, at least one of these at the 300 level, and the junior seminar HR 303 Research in Human Rights and/or HR 30X Methods in Human Rights. The final requirement is completion of a Senior Project related to human rights. 

    Graduation Requirements

    • HR 30x Methods in Human Rights
    • HR 303 Research in Human Rights
    • HR elective course
    • HR elective course
    • HR elective course, 300-level
    • Senior Project I

Sample Four-Year Plan

First Year Sophomore Year Junior Year Senior Year
HR core course
HR core course
Focus program course
FYSEM I (fall)
FYSEM II (spring)
HR core course
HR elective course
Focus program course
Moderation (spring)
 
HR elective course
HR 300-level course
Focus program course
Focus program seminar
 
HR elective course
Senior Project I (fall)
Senior Project II (spring)

 

Core Courses

Core courses include:
Human Rights 105, Human Rights Advocacy
Human Rights 111, Solving Each Other’s Public Health Problems: An OSUN Collaborative Course
Human Rights 189  Human Rights to Civil Rights
Human Rights 226, Women’s Rights, Human Rights
Anthropology 261, Anthropology of Violence and Suffering
Political Studies/Global and International Studies 207, Global Citizenship
Philosophy 130, Philosophy and Human Rights

Core courses offered through other fields of study include:
Anthropology/GIS 224, A Lexicon of Migration
Anthropology 261, Anthropology of Violence and Suffering
History 2356, American Indian History
History 2631, Capitalism and Slavery
Political Studies 245, Human Rights in Global Politics
Spanish 240, Testimonies of Latin America

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