Certificate in Human Rights
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Program Overview
Human rights are inherently interdisciplinary. The Certificate in Human Rights, offered by the Institute of Human Rights, is an integrated, innovative, and cooperative approach to human rights scholarship and training. The certificate combines the teaching and research strength of Emory University with the applied programs of our professional partners.
Certificate students will be equipped with a skill set that allows them to address challenges raised by current human rights issues and an understanding of the strengths and limitations of these approaches. Students will be trained to meet the needs of a global, rapidly changing human rights agenda. This training will allow students to use human rights mechanisms to advance the public good.
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Certificate Competencies
Upon completion of the Certificate in Human Rights, students will be able to:
- Understand the interdisciplinary nature of human rights
- Evaluate human rights policies across disciplines
Curriculum
Certificate Courses
This certificate program has one required course plus 6-9 credit hours of electives. Students must also ensure that their APE and ILE are related to human rights.
Required Course
Open to students from all of the graduate and professional schools pursuing the graduate certificate in human rights. Examines the theory and practice of global and human rights from an interdisciplinary perspective. Examines issues of history, origins, and legitimacy of universal human rights, and discusses standards, institutions, and processes of implementation. Considers human rights across a variety of substantive areas, including: conflict, development, globalization, social welfare, public health, and rights of women and other vulnerable groups.
Hubert Department of Global Health
Approved Electives
Candler School of Theology
- ES 610: Religion, Ethics, and Public Intellectuals
- ES 628: Religion, Ethics, and Civil Rights
- ES 671: Skills in Conflict Transformation I
- ES 680: Law and Religion: Theories, Methods, and Approaches
- ES 695: Religion, Culture, and Law in Comparative Practice
Emory School of Law
- LAW 572: SEM: Legal Regulation of Intimacy: Family, Friends, Sexuality, and Beyond
- LAW 624S: Climate Change Law
- LAW 633: Family Law
- LAW 635: Child Welfare Law and Policy
- LAW 643: Family Law II
- LAW 645: History of Religious Freedom
- LAW 651: Labor Law
- LAW 708: Law and Religion
- LAW 711: Religion, culture, and Law in Comparative Practice
- LAW 727: Citizenship & Immigration Law
Emory School of Medicine
- MD 642: Ethics in Medicine
Laney Graduate School
- ACT 538: Corporate Political Strategy
- AAS 703: Theorizing Blackness
- ANT 513: Gender and Sexual Diversity
- HC 659: U.S. Religion and Politics since the Civil War
- HIST 564: Africa and the era of Slave Trade
- MDP 510: Gender and Development
- SOC 560: Sociology of Culture
- SOC 585: Race and Ethnic relations Advanced Topics in Sociological Research: Race & Racism Research Workshop
Rollins School of Public Health
- BSHES 557: Addressing Racism as a Public Health Issue to Promote Health Equity
- BSHES 565: Violence as a Public Health Problem
- BSHES 567: LGBTQ Public Health
- HPM 577: Mental Health/Medical Interface in U.S.
- EH 571: Global Environmental Health Policy: Power, Science and Justice
- EH 572: Environmental Justice: Theory and Public Health Practice
- EPI 516: Issues In Women's Health
- EPI 523: Correctional Health Care Epidemiology
- EPI 591S: Social Epidemiology
- GH 508: Health and Human Rights Seminar
- GH 536: Religion & Health in Context: HIV
- GH 556 / BIOETH 505: Foundational Ethical Challenges in Global Health
- GH 559: Gender and Global Health
- GH 572: Community Transformation: A Five-day Experiential Workshop on Partnerships and Empowerment
- GH 582: Global Climate Change: Health Impacts and Response
- GHD 703: Ethics in Global Health and Development
- HPM 565: Health Care for the Indigent
- HPM 569: Women's Health Policy
Additional Requirements
Students must complete an APE with a substantive human rights component. APEs must fulfill all Rollins requirements including development of deliverables for the APE partner. The Institute of Human Rights helps coordinate placements, if requested.
Students must complete a culminating experience or thesis with a substantive human rights emphasis. For students who complete a capstone for their department, please reach out to the certificate administrator for additional options to fulfill this. In extenuating circumstances, students may replace the APE and/or ILE requirement with additional elective courses in lieu of these requirements.
Admissions
Human Rights Certificate is an add-on program that all applicants may opt to participate in once admitted into a degree program at the Rollins School of Public Health. No advance application is necessary although students should reach out to the certificate contact to ensure all certificate requirements are met including completion of the core course (GH526/ES585/POLS585), elective requirements (6 credits for MPH students and 9 hours for PhD students) and the certificate practicum including a deliverable.