Exciting Changes to the Human Rights Program!

Thu. Mar. 19, 2026

New core courses:

• HR 1100 Intro to Human Rights: Ideas and Practices (3)
• HR 1300 Intro to Human Rights and Global Citizenship (6) (HR 1100 + HR 1200)
• HR 3100 Identities and Difference in Human Rights (3)

Other changes:

• Updated Area Courses
• Changes to Cognate Categories and Courses
• More opportunities to do a Practicum

If you have already declared a Human Rights major and are partway through your degree you have a choice:

• Stay with degree requirements of when you declared
• Shift to the new requirements
• * These changes only affect you if you want them to*

See the full overview of changes >