Human Rights and Educational Justice, MA

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Designed to support teachers of early childhood through college, as well as educators working in non-formal settings such as community organizations, Human Rights Education (HRE) entails understanding the promise of rights guarantees and the gap between rights and actual realities.

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of the HREJ MA program will be able to:

Demonstrate a nuanced and integrative knowledge of human rights education & educational justice; and more importantly seeing the ways that both of these larger frameworks overlap and are interconnected; Rooted in a concept of internationalism students will be able to understand the complex ways that global struggles for human rights and educational justice are connected and interdependent.
Identify, describe, and critique critical social theory; humanizing pedagogies; theories of justice, intersectionality, and movement building. Students will gain a deep understanding of solidarity as both a framework and a tool for engaging in HRE and EJ.
Identify diverse methodological tools and application skills for community-engaged praxis in a range of contexts such as classroom teaching, community organizing, and public scholarship.

Major Requirements (30 units)

The Master of Arts in Human Rights and Educational Justice requires the completion of 30 units. These units should include:

Foundation Courses (3 courses, 9 units total)

Topic Courses (5 courses, 15 units total)

Choose 5 courses for 15 units from this section:

Human Rights and Educational Justice, MA

Program Learning Outcomes

Major Requirements (30 units)

Foundation Courses (3 courses, 9 units total)

Topic Courses (5 courses, 15 units total)

Culminating Project (2 courses, 6 units total)