Requirements

The following courses are approved for credit toward the Human Rights Minor:


ANT 317 Peoples and Cultures of Mesoamerica
ANT 416 Ethnographic Field Methods
   
CJ 426 Comparative Criminal Justice Systems
CJ 430 Criminal Procedure
CJ 431 Environmental Law
CJ 482 Criminal Justice Ethics
   
ECO 327 Economics of Africa
ECO 336 Survey of Internation Economics
ECO 400 Economic Development
   
ENG 473 Studies in African-American Literature
   
GHY 331 Cultural Systems in the Environment
GHY 341 Geography and World Political Affairs
   
HIS 374 African-American Survey, 1890-Present
HIS 402 Imperialism, Nationalism, and Decolonization
HIS 414 Latin American Revolutions
HIS 419 War and Society in Modern Africa
HIS 453 Environmental History
HIS 456 Nazi Germany
HIS 474 History of American Indians
HIS 477 Women in American Society
HIS 478 Studies in Civil Rights
   
PHI 300 Business Ethics
PHI 451 Philosophy of Politics
PHI 457 Environmental Ethics
   
PS 303 American Political Movements
PS 405 Women and Politics
PS 454 Government and Politics in Africa
PS 456 Latin American Government and Politics
PS 489 Supreme Court and Civil Liberties
PS 492 Special Problems*
   
MCJ 448 Seminar in Radio TV: Media Criticism
   
SCM 455 Seminar in Freedom of Speech
   
SOC 301 Wealth, Status, and Power
SOC 350 Race and Ethnicity
SOC 355 Collective Behavior and Social Movements
SOC 415 Sociology of Gender
SOC 475 Social Inequality
   
SWK 300 Social Welfare and Social Problems
SWK 315 Human Diversity in a Changing World
   
WS 301 Introduction to Women's Studies
WS 410 Women in American Society
WS 420 Women in Politics

Other courses can be applied to the Human Rights minor with permission of the program director.

Courses added after approval by minor advisor, minor co-directors, and Executive Committee of the USM Center for Human Rights and Civil Liberties.

*PS 492 (Special Problems). Approved by Board of Directors Feb. 3, 2006 with these requirements: (1) a student may apply only three hours of PS 492 toward the minor without approval from the College; (2) applying any 492 credits from a department other than political science requires approval of the Advisor of the Human Rights Minor.

 

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