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Human Rights
Human Rights Program Committee
Faculty of Arts and Social Science

This section presents the requirements for:

• Human Rights - B.A. Combined Honours

Human Rights is available only as a Combined Honours program which can be taken in conjunction with any other B.A. Combined Honours discipline. The program is jointly sponsored by the departments of Law, Philosophy, Political Science, and Sociology and Anthropology.

In addition to the requirements listed below, students must satisfy:

i) the University regulations, including the process of Academic Performance Evaluation (see the Academic Regulations of the University section of this Calendar),

ii) the common regulations applying to all B.A. students including those relating to First-Year Seminars. (see the Academic Regulations for the Bachelor of Arts Degree).

Students in the Human Rights program are exempt from the B.A. Breadth Requirement.

Students should consult the Human Rights Program Committee when planning their program and selecting courses.

Some of the Human Rights Electives have prerequisites that are not explicitly included in the program. Students should plan to have credit for the prerequisites of each course in their program or ask to have the prerequisite waived.

Human Rights - B.A. Combined Honours (20.0 credits)

Credits Included in the Major CGPA (7.0 credits)

1. 1.0 credit in SOAN 1001 [1.0] or an approved First-Year Seminar (FYSM);

2. 1.5 credits in LAWS 2105, PHIL 2103, PSCI 3307;

3. 1.0 credit from: LAWS 3503, LAWS 3509, LAWS 3604, LAWS 4102, LAWS 4604;

4. 0.5 credit from: PHIL 2101, PHIL 2102, PHIL 2306, PHIL 3103, PHIL 3300 [1.0];

5. 0.5 credit from: PSCI 3109, PSCI 4109, PSCI 4206;

6. 1.0 credit from: SOAN 2002 [1.0], ANTH 2007, SOAN 3007; SOAN 2304, SOCI 2407 [1.0], SOCI 3405, SOCI 3407, SOAN 4605;

7. 0.5 credit in Cultural and Cross-cultural Contexts (see list below);

8. 1.0 credit in Human Rights Electives (see list below);

9. In Items 1 to 8, there must be at least 1.0 credit at the 4000-level;

Additional Credit Requirements

10. The requirements for the other discipline must be satisfied;

11. Sufficient free electives to make 20.0 credits total for the program.

Human Rights Electives

Human Rights Law, Institutions and Practices
LAWS 2005 [1.0], LAWS 3401, LAWS 3501, LAWS 3503, LAWS 3603, LAWS 3604, LAWS 3509, LAWS 4006, LAWS 4309, LAWS 4604, LAWS 4605, LAWS 4607, PSCI 3600, PSCI 4109, SOWK 3206

Contexts of Inequality and Power
EURR 4002, EURR 4008, GEOG 2200, GEOG 2301, GEOG 3307, HIST 2801 [1.0], HIST 3106, HIST 3200 [1.0], HIST 3305 [1.0], HIST 3504, HIST 3506, HIST 3705, HIST 3706, DIST 4401, PSCI 1104, PSCI 2600, PSCI 2601, PSCI 2602, PSCI 3006, PSCI 3100, PSCI 3101 [1.0], PSCI 3104, PSCI 3105 [1.0], PSCI 3204, PSCI 3502, PSCI 4105, PSCI 4203, PSCI 4205, PSCI 4206, PSCI 4500, PSCI 4505, SOWK 2101, SOWK 3101, SOWK 3205, SOWK 4102, SOWK 4104, SOWK 4300, SOAN 2002 [1.0], ANTH 2007, SOAN 2200 [1.0], SOAN 2304, SOCI 2407 [1.0], ANTH 2409, SOAN 3007, SOAN 3103, ANTH 3109, SOCI 3201, SOCI 3405, SOCI 3407, SOCI 3408, SOAN 3601, SOAN 4200, SOAN 4404, SOAN 4601, SOAN 4605, ANTH 4700, ANTH 4706, SOAN 4707, SOAN 4709, WOMN 2800

Ethics and Political Theory
PHIL 1804, PHIL 2101, PHIL 2102, PHIL 2104, PHIL 2306, PHIL 2804, PHIL 2900 [1.0], PHIL 3101, PHIL 3102, PHIL 3103, PHIL 3300 [1.0], PHIL 3408, PHIL 4105, PHIL 4106, PHIL 4403, PHIL 4404, PHIL 4407, PHIL 4408, PSCI 3109, PSCI 4306, PSCI 4307, LAWS 3101, LAWS 3102, LAWS 4101, LAWS 4102, LAWS 4103, LAWS 4104, LAWS 4800

Cultural and Cross-cultural Contexts
HIST 1700 [1.0], HIST 2307 [1.0], HIST 2600 [1.0], HIST 2705 [1.0], HIST 2708 [1.0], HIST 2805 [1.0], HIST 2806 [1.0], HIST 3406, HIST 3407, HIST 3503 [1.0], RELI 1000, RELI 1001, RELI 2005, RELI 2106, RELI 2305 [1.0], RELI 2509, RELI 2702, RELI 2708, FYSM 1401 [1.0], ANTH 2007, ANTH 2409, SOAN 3601, ANTH 4706, SOAN 4709