Human Rights Interdisciplinary
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Overview
Human rights have become the moral language of today, the idiom in which we discuss our common humanity and weigh competing claims for resources, rights, and protections. The Human Rights Interdisciplinary (HRI) minor at UC Berkeley allows students to shape their education around coursework which investigates the legal, political, historical, economic, social, psychological, and representational dynamics of human rights.
Helping undergraduates explore issues via multiple forms of thought and media of expression—through literature as well as politics, journalism as well as law, film as well as anthropology—the HRI minor emphasizes the many different intellectual spaces in which human rights questions are currently being posed. In so doing, it encourages students to recognize how human rights are intertwined with fields as disparate as postcolonial literature and medical ethics, as well as with the more familiar fields of political science and international law.
Declaring the Minor
The department encourages students to meet with an HRI minor advisor early in their academic careers. Advisors will help craft a plan of study, review, discuss and approve elective courses for the minor.
Complete and submit the HRI Minor Declaration form only if you have met the following requirements:
Have met with a HRI minor advisor
Have completed at least one course for the HRI minor with a grade of B or better, OR:
Have completed at least two courses for the minor (not necessarily at UCB) with a minimum GPA of 2.0
Not be in their final semester of undergraduate work