Cluster Programs: Human Rights

The human rights cluster has five main objectives:

• Interrogate the philosophical and historical origins of the concept of human rights.
• Examine the evolution of the international human rights regime in the post-1945 period.
• Explore the ways in which the normative underpinning of the notion “human right” has been used as a core frame by social movements and organizations—environmental, democratic, indigenous, labor, women, queer etc.—in a range of spatial scales (national, regional, and international).
• Examine the responses of individuals, states, regions, and institutions of global governance to the international human rights regime.
• Examine the growing debate on the diverse approaches to human rights in different cultural, religious, and historical contexts.

INTS 560 Human Rights, Ethics, and Global Issues (Core course) [SS]
AFAM 422 Human Rights and Democracy in African Diaspora Communities [SS]
AFRI 416 Human Rights and Social Justice Movements in Africa [SS]
ENTS 225 Water Resource Management and Human Rights [NS]
PHIL 282 Human Rights: Philosophical Interrogations [HM]
SOCI 490 Human Rights [SS]
WMST 610 Feminism, Sexuality, and Human Rights [HM].

       

The four Divisions of the College of Arts and Sciences, with their abbreviations:

[HM]: Humanities
[FA]: Fine Arts
[SS]: Social and Behavioral Sciences
[NS]: Natural Sciences and Mathematics