Dedman College
(2010 Undergraduate Catalog)
Human Rights Minor
www.smu.edu/humanrights
Rick Halperin,
Director
The human rights minor, which is appropriate for all majors, is an interdisciplinary program introducing students to the study of universally recognized civil, political, economic, social and cultural human rights.
The minor requires a minimum of six courses (18 term hours), of which at least four courses must be at the advanced level (3000 or above). HIST 3301 Human Rights: America’s Dilemma is required for this minor. In addition to this foundation course, no more than two courses from any department may be taken unless preapproval is given by the director of the Human Rights Education Program.
In addition to classes, the minor also requires a commitment of students’ effort, time and talent in defense of or in advocacy for human rights. Students will either complete a 20-hour service-learning placement with a human rights community-based agency (as a component of HIST 3301) or will receive independent credit (HIST 4398, 4399) by participating in an SMU Human Rights Education Program group tour to a location where recent human rights violations have occurred (e.g., Cambodia, Rwanda, Poland) and completing a research paper on a human rights topic related to the site.
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In addition to HIST 3301, students must take at least five courses from the following list:
ANTH 1321 First-Year Seminar in Anthropology
ANTH 2301 Introductory Cultural Anthropology
ANTH 3301 Health, Healing and Ethics: Cross Cultural Perspectives on Sickness and Society
ANTH 3310 Gender and Sex Roles: A Global Perspective
ANTH 3311 Mexico: From Conquest to Cancun
ANTH 3327 Culture Change and Globalization: Social Science Perspectives
ANTH 3333 The Immigrant Experience
ANTH 3336 Gender and Globalization: Cultural and Ethical Issues
ANTH 3348 Health as a Human Right
ANTH 3351 Forensic Anthropology: Stories Told by Bones
ANTH 3353 Indians of North America
ANTH 3354 Latin America: People, Places and Power
ANTH 3358 Indians of the Southwest From the 16th Century to the Present
ANTH 3388 Warfare and Violence: The Anthropology and Ethics of Human Conflict
ANTH 4303 Political Economy of Health
ANTH 4305 Applied Anthropology
ANTH 4309 Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples and Nation States
ARHS 4349 Seminar in Contemporary Art: Why We Go to Auschwitz: Art, Trauma and Memory
CCJN 5305 Human Rights and the Journalist
CTV 2384 War on Film
ENGL 1365 Literature of Minorities
ENGL 3367 Ethical Implications of Children’s Literature
ENGL 3383 Literary Executions: Imagination and Capital Punishment
FL 3377 Shadows of Enlightenment: Human Rights in Germany
HIST 2391 African to the 19th Century
HIST 2392 Modern Africa
HIST 2395 Modern East Asia
HIST 3301 Human Rights: America’s Dilemma (required)
HIST 3304 Blacks and the Civil Rights Movement
HIST 3306 Colony to Empire: U.S. Diplomacy, 1789–1941
HIST 3307 The U.S. and the Cold War, 1945–1989
HIST 3312 Women in American History
HIST 3313 African Americans in the United States, 1607–1877
HIST 3314 African Americans in the United States, 1877–Present
HIST 3317 Women in Latin-American Societies
HIST 3322 Native American History
HIST 3341 Soviet/Post-Soviet Society and Politics, 1917 to Present
HIST 3363 The Holocaust
HIST 3371 Conflicts in the Modern Middle East
HIST 3390 Modern Middle East: 1914–Present
HIST 3392 The African Diaspora: Literature and History of Black Liberation
HIST 3393 China in Revolution
HIST 3401 The Good Society
HIST 4363 Inside Nazi Germany
HIST 4398, 4399 Independent Study (for group tour credit)
HIST 5340 Seminar in American History: Women's Rights in the United States
PHIL 3371 Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 3374 Philosophy of Law
PHIL 3377 Animal Rights
PHIL 3380 Ethical Theory
PLSC 1380 Introduction to International Relations
PLSC 3345 Governments and Politics of the Middle East
PLSC 3346 Governments and Politics of Japan
PLSC 3347 Governments and Politics of Africa
PLSC 3348 Governments and Politics of Latin America
PLSC 3352 Chinese Politics
PLSC 3358 Government and Politics of Russia
PLSC 3381 Current Issues in International Politics
PLSC 3383 The American Foreign Policy Process
PLSC 4321 Basic Issues in American Democracy
PLSC 4337 Civil Rights
PLSC 4339 Women and the Law
PLSC 4380 Contemporary Issues in International Relations
PLSC 4381 National Security Policy
RELI 3321 Religion and the Holocaust
SOCI 3305 Race and Ethnicity in the United States
SOCI 3363 Crime and Delinquency
SOCI 3370 Minority-Dominant Relations
SOCI 4360 Gangs in the United States: Developing Historical, Social and Theoretical Understandings of a Modern Problem
SOCI 4364 Correctional Systems
SPAN 3313 Conversation and Composition: Latin American Culture
WGST 2309 Lesbian and Gay Literature and Film: Minority Discourse and Social Power
WGST 3310 Gender and Human Rights
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