BA in International Human Rights
- Program Description
- Learning Outcomes
- Degree Requirements
- Required Courses
- Elective Courses
- Course Descriptions
The international human rights program at Webster University seeks to encourage greater understanding of international human rights standards, problems, and solutions.
Upon completion of the program, students should:
- Display knowledge of generally accepted international human rights standards;
- Display familiarity with widely discussed theories of human rights and criticisms of those theories;
- Display familiarity with a sampling of current and historical human rights problem areas;
- Display a capacity to reflect critically on the workings of an organization that is active in the area of international human rights or on focused human rights related observations;
- Display intermediate foreign language capability.
- 42 required credit hours
- 27 general education credit hours
- 64 elective credit hours
Students will complete 42 credit hours as specified below with a grade of C or better, and must display foreign language competence. (This requirement can be met by completing intermediate level II in a foreign language or by passing an intermediate-level proficiency examination and will be waived for students whose native language is not English and who are studying in English.)
In the final semester of study, each student must register for HRTS 4600 Senior Overview (3 credit hour) and submit an overview paper.
| HRTS 1100 Introduction to Human Rights | 3 hours |
| HRTS 2500 Current Problems in Human Rights | 3 hours |
| HRTS 2800 Methods of Inquiry | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3500 International Human Rights Law | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3590 Theories of Human Rights | 3 hours |
| HRTS 4500 Human Rights Field Experience | 3 hours |
| HRTS 4600 Senior Overview | 3 hours |
| PHIL 2300 Social and Political Philosophy or POLT 1070 Introduction to Political Theory |
3 hours |
18 credit hours from among the following, including at least 9 credit hours from courses with an HRTS prefix:
| ANSO 2000 Issues in Contemporary Society: Sociocultural Factors behind Migration and Refugee Movements | 1-4 hours |
| ANSO 3960 Ethnic and Minority Relations | 3 hours |
| ANSO 4200 Class, Status, and Power | 3 hours |
| ANSO 4275 Gender and Sex Roles | 3 hours |
| ENGL 1060 Protest Literature | 3 hours |
| ETHC 1000 Issues and Problems in Ethics | 1 hour |
| HIST 2420 History of Africa | 3 hours |
| HIST 2440 History of Latin America | 3 hours |
| HIST 2450 Third World | 3 hours |
| HRTS 2086 Topics In Human Rights | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3080 Advanced Topics in Human Rights | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3160 Human Rights in Film: Documentaries | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3170 Human Rights in Film: Narrative Films | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3200 Human Rights Area Studies | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3210 Prejudice and Discrimination | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3400 Human Rights and the Environment | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3600 Genocide and the Holocaust | 3 hours |
| HRTS 3700 Human Rights and Business | 3 hours |
| ISTL 1000 Introduction to International Studies | 3 hours |
| INTL 1500 The World System since 1500 | 3 hours |
| INTL 2030 International Law | 3 hours |
| INTL 3300 Governments and Politics of Eastern Europe | 3 hours |
| MEDC 2800 Cultural Diversity in the Media | 3 hours |
| MULC 2010 American Cultural Pluralism | 3 hours |
| PHIL 2320 Contemporary Moral Problems | 3 hours |
| PHIL 2340 Bioethics | 3 hours |
| PHIL 2360 Environmental Ethics | 3 hours |
| PHIL 3350 Philosophical Ethics | 3 hours |
| PHIL 3360 Ethics for Cyberspace | 3 hours |
| PHIL 3370 Philosophy and Women | 3 hours |
| POLT 1080 Introduction to Comparative Politics | 3 hours |
| POLT 2550 The Politics of Development | 3 hours |
| PSYC/ANSO 3225 Holocaust | 3 hours |
| PSYC/ANSO 3275 Genocide | 3 hours |
| RELG 2050 Religion and Human Values | 3 hours |
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