This program is designed to provide students with the foundational knowledge, critical perspectives, and practical skills to advance human rights around the globe. Students will graduate with a portfolio of applied work, a large network of contacts, and marketable skills for practicing and applying human rights. Students in the program will help produce white papers, webinars, shadow reports, and other forms of human rights work.

Sample Courses

HRTS 501 Advancing Human Rights Organization
HRTS 541 Advancing Human Rights through Documentary Media
HRTS 543 Advancing Human Rights with Technology
HRTS 596B Cutting-Edge Advances in Human Rights Practice

Learning Outcomes

• Ability to analyze complex human rights issues including identifying root causes of
• violations.
• Knowledge of international human rights laws.
• Develop skills to advocate for human rights, including effective communication, coalition
• building, and strategic planning.

Career Paths

• Human Rights Lawyer
• Non-Profit Organizations
• International Development
• Philanthropic Organizations

Earn two master’s degrees in this field at once through our dual degree partnership with Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham in Kochi, India.