Students wishing to minor in Human Rights should contact undergraduate advisor Lindsey Parisius lmparisius@ucdavis.edu or Dr. Flagg Miller fmiller@ucdavis.edu as soon as possible for additional advising.
Declare Human Rights as your Minor
Human Rights Studies Minor
The Human Rights Studies Minor provides students with an opportunity to explore human rights as a critical element of our contemporary world.
Courses in the minor approach human rights as a problem for humanity, policy, advocacy and humanitarian action, as well as a subject for historical, ethical, social scientific and cultural study. Students will examine moments of terrible human rights abuse: genocide, slavery, colonialism, Apartheid, and sexual and gender-based violence. They will also learn about movements to protect and promote human rights, including the elaboration of the contemporary the human rights régime, efforts by international and local non-governmental human rights organizations, and artistic and literary responses to human rights challenges.
The minor is administered by the Human Rights Studies Program.
Program Objectives
In addition to completing HMR 134, students must take three additional Core Courses and one course from the Elective Course list.
Advising: Lindsey Parisius lmparisius@ucdavis.edu, 213 Sproul Hall, (530) 752-0835. Appointments at https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39.
Required Course (4 units)
- HMR 134 Human Rights
Core Courses (12 units) – Choose three from the following:
- HMR 120A/AHI 120A Art, Architecture, & Human Rights
- HMR 130 Special Topics in Human Rights
- HMR 131 Genocide
- HMR 136 Human Rights in the Middle East
- HMR 137/AAS 103 The Black Human Rights Tradition
- HMR 138 Human Rights, Gender, & Sexuality
- HMR 140A Human Rights & the Popular Imagination
- HMR 140B Art & Politics of Memory: Truth, Justice, Reconciliation & Human Rights
- HMR 161/HIS 161 Human Rights in Latin America
- HMR 162Y/HIS 126Y The History of Human Rights in Europe
- HMR 190 Seminar in Human Rights
In addition to the courses listed above, any course with the HMR prefix and numbered between 100-199 will count towards the core course requirements.
Elective Courses (4 units) – Choose one from the following or seek the approval of the program advisor for an unlisted course that treats a human rights related topic.
- AAS 180 Race and Ethnicity in Latin America
- AMS 156 Race, Culture, & Society in the United States
- ANT 126A Anthropology of Development
- ANT 126B Women & Development
- ANT 130A Cultural Dimensions of Globalization
- CHI 130 United States-Mexican Border Relations
- HIS 115D Postcolonial Africa
- HIS 115E Slavery, Africa, & the Atlantic World
- HIS 142A History of the Holocaust
- HIS 142B The Memory of the Holocaust
- HIS 159 Women & Gender in Latin American History
- HIS 165/HIS 165V Latin American Social Revolutions
- HIS 172 American Environmental History
- HIS 177B History of Black People & American Race Relations: 1860-Present
- HIS 184 History of Sexuality in America
- MSA 150 Women & Islamic Discourses
- NAS 120 Ethnopolitics of South American Indians
- NAS 180 Native American Women
- POL 124 The Politics of Global Inequality
- POL 126 Ethnic Self-Determination & International Conflict
- POL 142B Comparative Development: Politics & Inequality
- POL 146B Politics of Africa: Development in Africa
- POL 152 The Constitutional Politics of the Equality
- POL 166 Women in Politics
- POL 168 Latino Politics
- POL 176 Racial Politics
- SOC 104/IRE 104 The Political Economy of International Migration
- SOC 130 Race Relations
- SOC 160 Sociology of the Environment
- WMS 140 Gender & Law
- WMS 145 Women's Movements in Transnational Perspective
- WMS 170 Queer Studies
- WMS 145 Gender & Experience of Race
- WMS 182 Globalization, Gender & Culture
- WMS 184 Gender in the Arab World
Students who declared their Human Rights minor prior to Fall 2019 may opt to follow the requirements above OR the previous requirements.