Graduate Course List

This page provides an overview of our course offerings, to help students as they make decisions and plans for the academic year ahead. Please note that this schedule will be updated periodically and may be subject to change. Students are encouraged not only to revisit this page but also to confirm the course listings in the online Directory of Courses and Vergil, where course descriptions and class meeting times will be posted.
  • ISHR Spring 2024 Graduate Courses
  • HRTS GU4195 Topics in History, Memory, and Transitional Justice
  • HRTS GU4210 Equality, Identity, and Rights
  • HRTS GU4270 Social Media and Human Rights
  • HRTS GU4380 Advocacy for Socio-Economic Rights
  • HRTS GU4460 Climate Justice
  • HRTS GU4880 Human Rights in the United States
  • HRTS GU4915 Human Rights & Urban Public Space
  • HRTS GU4930 International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
  • HRTS GU4940 Human Rights and Education
  • HRTS GU4975 Borders, Surveillance, Rights
  • HRTS GR6800 International Human Rights Law 
  • HRTS GR6990 Human Rights Research Seminar 

As part of Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), our students take courses in a range of departments, including Political Science, Religion, Anthropology, Women’s Studies, and Sociology. Students can also take human rights related courses offered by other schools at Columbia.

Each semester, the program publishes a list of courses of potential interest to graduate students. We try to keep this information as up-to-date as possible, but students should also consult the Directory of Classes, departments offering the course, and school bulletins for additional course information when planning their course schedules.

This course list is subject to change upon receipt of additional course information. If you would like to suggest an addition or modification to this list, please email relevant course information and syllabi to humanrightsed@columbia.edu. Courses that are not on the pre-approved list may also fulfill degree requirements if the student can demonstrate that he or she can complete substantial coursework specifically focusing on human rights in that course.

Before each semester’s registration period, students should confer with the program to verify that courses of interest fulfill degree requirements.

Approval of a class for the degree does not guarantee enrollment in that course. Students are responsible for following all registration and cross-registration procedures. Consult the Directory of Classes and individual departments/instructors regarding any permission/application/prerequisites needed for a course.

Types of Courses

Pre-Approved Courses

Pre-Approved Courses automatically count towards the degree as an elective human rights course. They fulfill the concentration requirement of the degree, depending on the student’s selected concentration.

Additional courses

These courses are additional courses of potential interest to human rights students. Courses on this list, as well as others listed on the Directory of Classes, may fulfill degree requirements if the student can demonstrate that he or she can complete substantial coursework specifically focusing on human rights. Students who would like to count one of these courses towards the degree should consult with the program.

 

Dept Course # Format Title Instructor(s) Credits
SUMA PS5040 LEC ESG-Aligned Corporate Governance Thurston, Jessica 3.0
HRTS S4185 SEM Human Rights & Global Economic Justice Braun, Rainer 3.0
HRTS S4010 SEM Indigenous Rights and Settler Colonialism in North America Wyman-McCarthy, Tim 3.0
HRTS S4220 SEM International Human Rights Law Cooper, Belinda 3.0
HRTS S4020 SEM Introduction to Human Rights Eberbach, Kristina 3.0
HRTS S4215 SEM NGOs and the Human Rights Movement: Strategies, Successes and Challenges Bickford, Louis 3.0
INTL S6552 LEC United Nations & Human Rights Marshall, David 3.0
HRTS GU4050 SEM Young People, Human Rights, Gun Violence Holland, Tracey 3.0