Course list for Human Rights minor

All minors must be completed with a 2.0 minor GPA. Please see an adviser to discuss details.

Students are highly encouraged to take courses from the other two campuses as well as UW Tacoma to complete this minor. The expertise available on all three campuses has the potential to make the experience a richer one, providing more choices for internships and specialization of study within the minor. This information is provided for those students who want a summary of the UW Tacoma offerings.

This minor requires 25 credits.

List A: 10 credits

Courses in which human rights is a core concept

• T HIST 457 Antisemitism and the Holocaust
• THLTH 520 Health and Human Rights (3crs - requires instructor permission)
• T PHIL 200 Introduction to the Philosophy of Human Rights
• TPOL S 251 Cultural Studies: Torture and Human Rights
• TPOL S 311 International Human Rights
• TPOLS 368 The Politics and Law of International Human Rights
• TPOLS 410 Labor Rights & Human Rights
• TPOL S 420 Theories of Political Violence
• TPOL S 422 International Humanitarian Law
• TPOL S 453 Political Theory of Human Rights

List B: 5 credits

Courses concerned with human rights in a broader context (poverty, race/ethnicity, gender, labor, social change)

• TECON 313 Theories of Economic Development and Social Change
• TECON 425 Contemporary Issues in International Political Economy
• T GEOG 352 Cultural Geography
• T HIST 220 African American History 1619-1865
• T HIST 221 African American History: 1865-1945
• T HIST 222 African-American History 1945-Present
• T HIST 340 History of U.S.-American Indian Relations
• T HIST 413 Civil Rights, Civil Liberties
• T HIST 419 African-American Culture and Consciousness
• T HIST 441 Black Freedom Movement
• T LIT 324 African American Women's Literature
• T LIT 320 African American Literature from Slavery to the Present
• T LIT 425 Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
• TPOL S 312 Nineteenth Century Revolutions and Revolutionaries
• TPOL S 320 American Constitutional Law
• TPOL S 435 Popular Movements in Latin America
• TPOL S 450 Contemporary Theories of Culture: Post-9/11 (Please Note: Only this variation of TPOL S 450 counts)
• TPOL S 452 Minorities and the Law
• TPOL S 456 Community and Labor Organizing: A Multicultural Perspective
• T SOC 335 Social Class and Inequality
• T SOC 434 Women, Race, and Class: Identity and Intergroup Relations
• T SOC 456 Rural Societies and Development
• TURB 314 Gender and the Urban Landscape
• TURB 316 Cities and Citizenship: Researching Inequalities in Urban Settings

Ten additional credits from List A or B

At least three (3) credits in a human rights related internship, practicum, study abroad or equivalent

TIAS 496 Internship

Important note for students who choose the internship option: human rights internships have as their primary objective learning about human rights work and facilitating a synthesis between classroom learning and practical engagement. Appropriate human rights internships may be supervised by any University of Washington faculty member. Students who choose this route to fulfill the minor’s requirements must find an appropriate internship and register for TIAS 496 Internship. The new Human Rights Minor form MUST be stapled to the TIAS 496 Internship form when you submit it to the IAS program.if you want the internship to count for the minor. Be sure to have supervising faculty sign it or your minor may be incomplete.