Human Rights Education, MA

Program Learning Outcomes

The Human Rights Education Program Learning Outcomes:

The goal of the HRE program is to develop professional practitioners with expertise in the following key areas:

• Analyze the gap between universal rights and grassroots realities in local, global, and transnational contexts, with attention to issues of power, privilege, and marginalization. Explore the conditions and dimensions of empowering and transformative learning processes.
• Describe and critique the differing approaches, perspectives, and models toward human rights education and how they impact the ways in which HRE is carried out in diverse settings.
• Drawing on critical pedagogies, produce advocacy tools and curricular resources to be used in formal or non-formal educational contexts to address human rights violations.
• Design, conduct, analyze and present findings from interviews, using diverse methods, such as oral history, in order to raise awareness about human rights issues.
• Identify diverse methodological tools and skills needed to conduct ethical research in a range of contexts such as classroom teaching, community organizing, and curriculum development, among others.
• Synthesize contextual understandings, reflective analysis, theoretical frameworks, and methodological training to inform either the production of a thesis or research-based field project.

Our Programs

The goals of the programs are to provide:

• To develop critical analysis & contextual understanding of education (formal, non-formal and informal) and unequal realities in local, global, and transnational contexts. Students explore and develop an orientation towards critical, transformative and social justice pedagogies including ethnic studies, and human rights education, among others
• To provide theoretical grounding in order to learn and apply critical and social theories to a wide range of education issues locally globally.
• Students also develop their own particular area of theoretical interest, inquiry, reflection, and writing
• To learn research methods & approaches such that students are able to state a research problem and question, identify appropriate theoretical frameworks, conduct a literature review, identify relevant quantitative and/or qualitative methodologies, and discuss implications. By learning about and practicing engaged scholarship, students acquire diverse methodological tools and skills to conduct inquiry and assessment in a range of areas such as classroom teaching, community organizing, and curriculum development, among other areas
• To cultivate scholars, practitioners & advocates in education so that students can apply their critical analysis of educational inequities and case studies of social justice education to practical and engaged action in local, global and transnational settings

The faculty of International and Multicultural Education offer three M.A. programs: the Master of Arts in International and Multicultural Education, the MA in Human Rights Education, and the Master of Arts in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, which may include a concentration in Digital Media and Learning. In addition, the faculty offer a Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) in International and Multicultural Education, which may include a concentration area in Second Language Acquisition or Human Rights Education.

Please visit the International and Multicultural Education (IME)   department page for more information.

Major Requirements (30 Units)