Organized in 1993, Webster University's Human Rights Education Project (HREP) offered the first organized undergraduate human rights curriculum in North America. In 2005, HREP began offering the first International Human Rights B.A. in the United States.
HREP’s mission is to
- stimulate dialogue, encourage awareness, and promote critical thinking about current human rights issues and problems, both within the University and throughout the larger community
- introduce interested students to current human rights standards, issues and problems
- provide coherent curricular options for students who wish to make a systematic study of human rights standards, problems, issues
- help students considering a career or further education in human rights or related fields to decide whether this is right for them, and to prepare them to go on.
- to provide resources for faculty who wish to incorporate human rights materials into their courses
To meet these goals the Human Rights Education Project
- offers individual (courses)
- provides four different (curricular paths)
- organizes (lectures, conferences and film showings) and
- maintains a modest resource center with a variety of reference materials, including films and DVDs, for classroom use.
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