Human Rights Studies Learning Goals

1. Gain general knowledge of the philosophical, historical, and legal foundations of human rights and evaluate how actors define, justify, and contest rights across contexts.
2. Develop interdisciplinary skills to integrate law, politics, history, sociology, and the arts to explain how power, institutions, and lived experience shape rights outcomes.
3. Apply human rights frameworks via experiential learning in internships, partnerships, simulations, and applied projects to interpret problems and develop responses.
4. Generate and design original research, formulate clear questions, and use qualitative and quantitative evidence to support human rights arguments.
5. Exercise ethical judgment by assessing ethical responsibilities and advance human dignity through advocacy, policy, or storytelling while recognizing limits.