Human Rights Studies Minor
Minor in Human Rights Studies
The minor in Human Rights Studies is a cross-disciplinary program for Sonoma State students who are interested in a curriculum that focuses on human rights. The program includes opportunities for hand-on learning, both in the classroom and beyond. Through a combination of required and elective courses across several disciplines, students gain an understanding of issues surrounding human rights: genocide, environmental justice, human rights leadership, public health, and the history and politics of social justice movements.
Requirements
To earn a Human Rights Studies minor, students must take a total of five courses. POLS 250, POLS 320, and HIST/POLS 307 must all be passed with a C or better. In addition to the three core courses, students must take two courses from a list of possible electives across multiple disciplines.
Minor Core (all required) | Units |
| POLS 250 Genocide and Atrocity Prevention Simulation (Fall only) | 3 |
| POLS 320 Applied Leadership and Community Organizing (Spring only) | 3 |
| HIST/POLS 307 Holocaust and Genocide Lecture Series (Spring only) | 3 |
| Total core | 9 |
Plus, two of any of the following possible elective courses:
- ANTH 315 Forensic Anthropology Theory and Practice
- CCJS 375 Current Issues in Criminology and Criminal Justice
- CCJS 405 Rights of the Accused
- HIST 351 American Thought and Society to 1865
- HIST 352 American Thought and Society, 1865 to the Present
- HIST 371 Special Topics and Themes in European History
- HIST 383 The Atlantic World, 1450-1800
- HIST 414 Gender and Society in Early Modern Europe
- HIST 418 Fall of European Communism
- HIST 456 The Emergence of Modern America
- HIST 458 Modern America since World War II
- HIST 465 History of African-American Thought and Culture
- HIST 468 African American History
- HIST 469 Religion in America
- HIST 470 The American South
- HIST 498WIC Senior Seminar
- POLS 345 Model United Nations
- POLS 444 United States Foreign Policy
- POLS 445 International Organizations
- POLS 446 International Relations of the Middle East
- POLS 447 Nonviolent Strategies in International Relations
- POLS 448 Political Violence, Terrorism, and Law
- POLS 455 Comparative Reproductive Rights
- POLS 486 Selected Issues: International Politics
- POLS 487 Selected Topics in Comparative Politics
To add this minor, please fill out this form.
If you have questions about the HRS minor, please contact Dr. Stephen Bittner in HIST or Dr. Cynthia Boaz in POLS.