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Minor

Minor in Human Rights Interdisciplinary

University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science 44 courses

About This Program

Minor 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 (Link to Human Rights Minor webpage ) 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...

Degree Requirements

Upper Division: Electives

Complete at least 3 of the following.

Code Course Title Credits
AFRICAM 111 Race, Class, and Gender in the United States 3
AFRICAM 125AC The History of the Modern Civil Rights Movement 3
AFRICAM 152F Neo-Slave Narratives 3
AFRICAM C156 Race, Space, and Inequality 4
AMERSTD 139AC or HISTORY C139C Civil Rights and Social Movements in U.S. History or Civil Rights and Social Movements in U.S. History 4
ANTHRO 150 Utopia: Art and Power in Modern Times 4
CHICANO 174 Chicanos, Law, and Criminal Justice 4
ECON 133 Global Inequality and Growth 4
ENGLISH 175 Literature and Disability 4
ESPM 155AC Sociology and Political Ecology of Agro-Food Systems 4
ESPM 163AC or SOCIOL 137AC Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment or Environmental Justice: Race, Class, Equity, and the Environment 4
ESPM C167 or PBHLTH C160 Environmental Health and Development or Environmental Health and Development 4
ETHSTD 144AC Racism and the U.S. Law: Historical Treatment of Peoples of Color 4
ETHSTD 173AC or NATAMST 173AC Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality or Indigenous Peoples in Global Inequality 4
ETHSTD 182AC Race, Rights, and Citizenship 4
GEOG 130 Food and the Environment 4
GEOG C155 or AFRICAM C156 Race, Space, and Inequality or Race, Space, and Inequality 4
GPP 115 Global Poverty: Challenges and Hopes 4
GWS 102 Transnational Feminism 4
GWS 130AC Gender, Race, Nation, and Health 4
GWS C138 Gender and Capitalism 4
HISTORY 178 History of the Holocaust 4
IAS 157AC or ENGIN 157AC Engineering, The Environment, and Society or Engineering, The Environment, and Society 4
LEGALST 132AC Immigration and Citizenship 4
LEGALST 138 The Supreme Court and Public Policy 4
LEGALST 140 Property and Liberty 4
LEGALST 160 Punishment, Culture, and Society 4
LEGALST 170 Crime and Criminal Justice 4
POLSCI 124C Ethics and Justice in International Affairs 4
PUBPOL 117AC Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy 4
SOCIOL 124 Sociology of Poverty 4
SOCIOL 130 Social Inequalities 4
SOCIOL 131A Race and Ethnic Relations: The United States Experience 3
SOCIOL 133 Sociology of Gender 4

Upper Division: Internship or Elective

Complete at least 1 of the following. Students can choose the GLOBAL 197 internship or an additional course from the Electives list above.

Code Course Title Credits
GLOBAL 197 Field Studies 1-4

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