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Certificate Requirements: Summary Overview

  • Core requirements: 6 to 9 credits
  • Primary electives: 15 to 24 credits from four areas and four departments
  • Secondary electives: 0 to 9 credits
  • TOTAL: 30 Credits (at least 24 credits at the 200 level or above)

Required Core Courses: 6 to 9 Credits

  • 15-POL-287 Politics of Human Rights
    Professor: Tolley
  • INTERN PRACTICUM
    Department with human rights organizations such as Amnesty International, Freedom Center, UC Hum Rts Quarterly, IJPC and/or
  • SENIOR PROJECT
    Department capstone allowing a human rights focus

Primary Electives: 15 to 24 Credits from four areas and four departments

Philosophical, social, cultural, and political perspectives on universal rights

  • 15-PHIL-106 Intro to Philosophy: Ethics
    Professor: tba
  • 15-PHIL-374 Intro to Philosophy of Law: Freedom
    Professor: Faaborg (also honors)
  • 15-PHIL-520 Contemporary Ethics
    Professor: tba
  • 15-WMST-480 Feminist Theory
    Professor: tba
  • 23-PLAN-397 Film and the Global Village
    Professor: Looye

International laws and institutions

  • 15-MS-412 Legal Issues for the Military Professional (2 credits)
    Professor: Tilly
  • 15-POL-288 International Law (3 credits)
    Professor: Tolley
  • 15-POL-289 International Organization (3 credits)
    Professor: Tolley

Major threats

  • 15-Geog-231 Geography of the Middle East
    Professor: Selya
  • 15 BIOL-123 AIDS, Biomedical, Social and Ethical Issues
    Professor: Meyer
  • 15-HIST-570 War and Peace in the Modern Middle East
    Professor: Frierson
  • 15-POL-371 Middle East Conflicts
    Professor: Bloom
  • 15-JUDC-383 Literature of the Holocaust
    Professor: Naveh
  • 15-JUDC-382 Studies in the Holocaust
    Professor: Naveh and others

Rights of vulnerable groups

  • 15-AFAM-452 Liberation Struggles
    Professor: Griffler
  • 15-ANTH-320 People in the Balkans
    Professor: Foster
  • 15-AFAM-451 Colonization, Nationalism, and Post Colonial West Africa
    Professor: Takougang
  • 15-HIST-532 Women in India and China Since 1800
    Professor: Ramusack
  • 15-POL-365 Women and Politics in the Third World
    Professor: Jenkins

Secondary Electives: 0 to 9 Credits

Anthropology

  • 15-ANTH-334 Indians of Mexico
    Professor: Reese
  • 15-ANTH-101 Cultural Anthropology
    Professor: Jacobson

Biology

  • 15-BIOL- 333 Biotechnology: Social & Ethical Issues Professor: Meyer

Geography

  • 15-Geog-104, 105 Human Geography
    Professor: Selya

History

  • 15-HIST-172 Middle East History 1850-present
    Professor: Frierson
  • 15-HIST-171 Middle East History 1258-1850
    Professor: Frierson
  • 15-HIST-679 Soviet Union: Stalin to Present
    Professor: Sunderland

Judaic Studies

  • 15-JUDC-352 Gender and Judaism
    Professor: Naveh

Multidisciplinary Studies

  • 15-MLTI-300 Study Abroad or alternate offering specific to department or college

Philosophy

  • 15-PHIL-111 Contemporary Moral Issues
    Professor: tba
  • 15-PHIL-322 Ethics
    Professor: tba
  • 15-PHIL-333 Feminist Political Philosophy
    Professor: Cuomo
  • 32-PHIL-182 Contemporary Moral Issues
    Professor: Seibert

Political Science

  • 15-POL-269 Politics in Developing Countries
    Professor: Jenkins
  • 15-POL-283 International Cooperation.
    Professor: Mistry
  • 15-POL-286 Security Policies of Asian States
    Professor: Mistry

Sociology

  • 15-SOC-385 Social Change in Latin America Professor: Quarm
  • 15-SOC-475 War and Society
    Professor: Steve Carlton-Ford

Women's Studies

  • 15-WMST-241 Intro to Women's Studies
    Professor: tba
  • 15-WMST-380 Feminist Critical Readings
    Professor: tba

College of Applied Science

  • 32-PHIL-182 Contemporary Moral Issues
    Professor: Seibert

College of Business

  • 22-BLAW- Business Ethics
    Professor: Faaborg
  • 22-INTB-571 World Marketing
    Professor: Raj Mehta

College of Design, Art, Architecture and Planning

  • 23-PLAN-579 Social Justice and the City
    Professor: tba
  • 23-PLAN-708 Global Health
    Professor: tba

College of Education, Criminal Justice and Human Services

  • 18-EDFN-684 Liberation Philosophy (Peace Studies Certificate course)
    Professor: Vanessa Allen-Brown
  • 15-HPE-554 International Health
    Professor: Guyler