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Undergraduate Course Descriptions
- HMR 001 Human Wrongs/Human Rights | Wendy Terry
Course Description: Introduction to Human Rights and the problems they seek to address. Using key episodes of inhumanity like slavery, genocide, and racism. Examines how international movements for social justice led to the emergence of the international Human Rights system.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
- HMR 134 Human Rights | Lucia Luna-Victoria Indacochea
Course Description: Introduction to the interdisciplinary study of the origins, evolution, denial and protection of Human Rights.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
- HMR 140A Human Rights & the Popular Imagination | Lucia Luna-Victoria Indacochea
Course Description: Arts, music, literature, film and television in the rise of human rights movements and the protection, promotion and violation of human rights. Topics may include: human rights & science fiction; human rights & the graphic novel; human rights & contemporary cinema; human rights & rock and roll.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC); Writing Experience (WE).
- HMR 161 Human Rights in Latin America | Charles Walker
Course Description: History of the origins, denial and protection of Human Rights in Latin America. Emphasis on dictatorships, political violence, social resistance, democracy, justice, accountability, truth commissions, memory.
Cross Listing: HIS 161.
General Education: Arts & Humanities (AH) or Social Sciences (SS); World Cultures (WC).
Courses Outside of the Department
- Elective Options for Human Rights Minors
1 elective course outside of the department can be used toward the Human Rights minor. Students may also seek the approval of the program advisor for an unlisted course that treats a human rights related topic.
Human Rights Elective Course Options:
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