Undergraduate Courses by Term | Institute for the Study of Human Rights

Spring 2026 Undergraduate Pre-Approved Courses

Distributional Categories

The following designations correspond to the distributional category/ies for each pre-approved course on the list below. Please consult the Major requirements page for more information.

PH: Politics & History
CR: Culture & Representation
PP: Philosophy & Political Theory
SEP: Social & Economic Processes

Dept.: AFRS
Format: LEC
Course number: BC2005
Course: Caribbean Cultures and Societies
Professor(s): Horn, Maja
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: CR, SEP

Dept.: AMST
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4697
Course: Protect the Dolls: Trans Panics and Queer Liberation
Professor(s): Joslyn, Dani
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: AMST
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3931
Course: Topics in American Studies: Equity in Higher Education
Professor(s): Delbanco, Andrew
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: AMST
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4984
Course: Black Solidarities
Professor(s): Springer, Kimberly
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: ANTH
Format: LEC
Course number: BC2427
Course: Anthropology of Climate Change
Professor(s): West, Paige
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: ARCH
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4300
Course: The Just City: Global Debates in Urban Planning and Policy
Professor(s): Smith, Nick
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: CLSL
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4012
Course: Holocaust Literature: Critical Thinking
Professor(s): Dynes, Offer
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, CR

Dept.: COMS
Format: SEM
Course number: BC1428
Course: Writing With/On Computing
Professor(s): Akhtar, Saima
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: CPLS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4162
Course: Transnational Feminisms: China and Beyond
Professor(s): Hong Fincher, Leta
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PP, CR

Dept.: CSER
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4004
Course: Data, Race, Power and Justice
Professor(s): Luna Lucero, Brian
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP

Dept.: CSER
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4350
Course: Cinema of Subversion
Professor(s): Gamalinda, Eric
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: CSER
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3940
Course: Comparative Study of Constitutional Challenges Affecting African, Latino, and Asian American Communities
Professor(s): Ouyang, Elizabeth
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP, CR

Dept.: CSER
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3942
Course: Race and Racisms
Professor(s): Fennell, Catherine
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP, CR

Dept.: CSER
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4340
Course: Visionary Medicine: Racial Justice, Health and Speculative Fictions
Professor(s): Dasgupta, Sayantani
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: ECON
Format: LEC
Course number: GU4480
Course: Gender and Applied Economics
Professor(s): Edlund, Lena
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: EDUC
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3043
Course: Making Change: Activism, Social Movements and Education
Professor(s): Qadir, Fawziah
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: EDUC
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3070
Course: Growing Up Palestinian
Professor(s): Abu El-Haj, Thea
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: HIST
Format: LEC
Course number: UN2432
Course: The United States In the Era of Civil War and Reconstruction
Professor(s): McCurry, Stephanie
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: HIST
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3517
Course: The Historical Imagination in Caribbean Literature
Professor(s): Lightfoot, Natasha
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: HIST
Format: LEC
Course number: BC2477
Course: Race, Class, and Politics in New York City
Professor(s): Vaz, Matthew
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PP, PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: LEC
Course number: BC1025
Course: Human Rights in Theory and Practice
Professor(s): Brown, Widney
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PP, PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3360
Course: Human Rights Our Bodies and the Struggle to Define Personal Autonomy
Professor(s): Brown, Widney
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3601
Course: International Law and UN in Practice
Professor(s): Flaherty, Martin
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3935
Course: Power, Politics, and Procedure in US Immigration Court
Professor(s): Trowbridge, Jennifer
Points: 5
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4270
Course: Digital Advocacy for Human Rights: Social Media and Open Source Intelligence
Professor(s): Perlmutter, Ted
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4380
Course: Advocacy for Socio-Economic Rights
Professor(s): Rosenthal, Mila
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4460
Course: Climate Justice
Professor(s): Dugard, Jackie
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4930
Course: Int'l Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
Professor(s): Cronin, Bruce
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4940
Course: Human Rights and Education
Professor(s): Mitoma, Glenn
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4975
Course: Borders, Surveillance, Rights
Professor(s): Molavi, Shourideh
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, CR

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3934
Course: Seeking Sanctuary in New York City
Professor(s): Trowbridge, Jennifer
Points: 5
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: HRTS
Format: LEC
Course number: UN3940
Course: History of Human Rights
Professor(s): Mitoma, Glenn
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, CR

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3995
Course: Human Rights Senior Seminar
Professor(s): Tibbitts, Felisa
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: Core

Dept.: HRTS
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3996
Course: Human Rights Thesis Seminar
Professor(s): Holland, Tracey
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: Core

Dept.: INAF
Format: SEM
Course number: U6202
Course: Internet Governance and Human Rights
Professor(s): Micek, Peter
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: JWST
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4159
Course: Antisemitism and Resistance in Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa
Professor(s): Berman-Gladstone, Benjamin
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: POLS
Format: LEC
Course number: BC3254
Course: First Amendment Values
Professor(s): Franzese, Paula
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, PP

Dept.: POLS
Format: LEC
Course number: UN2601
Course: International Politics
Professor(s): Schlesinger, Jayme
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: POLS
Format: LEC
Course number: UN3528
Course: New/Old Forms of Political Protest
Professor(s): Superti, Chiara
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: POLS
Format: LEC
Course number: UN3619
Course: Nationalism and Contemporary World Politics
Professor(s): Snyder, Jack
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: POLS
Format: SEM
Course number: UN3921
Course: American Politics Seminar: The First Amendment
Professor(s): Amdur, Robert L
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH

Dept.: PSYC
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4612
Course: Frontiers of Justice
Professor(s): Dixon, Peter
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: SDEV
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4670
Course: Environmental Justice: A Legal Framework for Advocacy
Professor(s): Appah-Gyamfi, Christine
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: SDEV
Format: SEM
Course number: UN2100
Course: Introduction to Climate Justice
Professor(s): Aronowsky, Leah
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, PP

Dept.: SDEV
Format: LEC
Course number: UN3355
Course: Climate Change and Law
Professor(s): Gerrard, Michael; Foster, Sheila
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: SOCI
Format: LEC
Course number: BC3202
Course: Structural Determinants of Health
Professor(s): Momplaisir, Maati
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, PH

Dept.: SOCI
Format: LEC
Course number: BC3214
Course: Sociology of African American Life
Professor(s): Moore, Mignon R
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: SOCI
Format: LEC
Course number: BC3248
Course: Race, Ethnicity, and Education in the US
Professor(s): Walker, Dominic
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP

Dept.: SOCI
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3750
Course: How Race Gets Under Our Skin: The Sociology of Race Health, and Biomedicine
Professor(s): Reed, Domonique M.
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP, CR

Dept.: SOCI
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3934
Course: Global Activism
Professor(s): Anastasi, Andrew
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: SOCI
Format: LEC
Course number: UN3241
Course: Transnationalism, Citizenship, and Belonging
Professor(s): Serhan, Randa
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP, CR

Dept.: SUMA
Format: LEC
Course number: K5888
Course: Geographies of Environmental Justice and Sustainability
Professor(s): Williams, John
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: PH, SEP

Dept.: SUMA
Format: LEC
Course number: PS4490
Course: Women in Cities
Professor(s): Blaustein, Susan
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: CR, SEP

Dept.: SUMA
Format: LEC
Course number: PS5250
Course: Building a Sustainable Detroit: A Case Study in Urban Resilience
Professor(s): Givens Davidson, Donna
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, CR

Dept.: URBS
Format: LEC
Course number: UN3451
Course: Urban Environmental Justice: Gender, Race, Class and the Environment
Professor(s): Hernandez, Maricarmen
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: WMST
Format: LEC
Course number: BC2140
Course: Critical Approaches in Social and Cultural Theory
Professor(s): Pittman, Alexander
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: SEP, CR

Dept.: WMST
Format: LEC
Course number: BC2150
Course: Intersectional Feminisms
Professor(s): Solomon, Marisa
Points: 3
Distributional Categories: CR

Dept.: WMST
Format: SEM
Course number: BC3514
Course: Historical Approaches to Feminist Questions
Professor(s): Haley, Sarah
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: SEP

Dept.: WMST
Format: SEM
Course number: GU4330
Course: SWANA Diasporas: Culture, Politics, and Identity Formation in a Time of War
Professor(s): Moradian, Manijeh
Points: 4
Distributional Categories: PH, CR