HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAM

Interdivisional

Website:  http://www.bard.edu/hrp/

updated December 7, 2021

 

Advising Faculty

 

1.     Thomas Keenan - Literature (director)

2.     Ziad Abu-Rish – Human Rights

3.     Roger Berkowitz - Political Studies

4.     Ian Buruma - Human Rights

5.     Nicole Caso - Spanish

6.     Christian Crouch - History

7.     Mark Danner - Human Rights (fall only)

8.     Tania El Khoury – Theater & Performance

9.     Omar G. Encarnaciσn - Political Studies

10.   Helen Epstein – Social Studies

11.   Tabetha Ewing - History

12.   Nurrudin Farah – Literature (fall only)

13.   Laura Kunreuther - Anthropology

14.   Susan Merriam - Art History

15.   Gregory B. Moynahan – History

16.   Michelle Murray – Political Studies

17.   Alys Moody - Literature

18.   Gilles Peress - Photography/Human Rights

19.   Dina Ramadan – Arabic

20.   Miles Rodriguez - History

21.   Peter Rosenblum - Human Rights

22.   John Ryle - Human Rights

23.   Michael Sadowski

24.   Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins – Anthropology

25.   Katherine Tabb - Philosophy

26.   Drew Thompson – History

27.   Eric Trudel – French

28.   Evan Calder Williams

29.   Robert Weston - Human Rights

30.   Ruth Zisman – Philosophy


 

Human Rights is a transdisciplinary program that spans the arts, social studies, the sciences, and literature. The program offers courses that explore fundamental theoretical questions, historical and empirical issues within the disciplines, and practical and legal strategies of human rights advocacy. Students are encouraged to treat human rights as an intellectual question, challenge human rights orthodoxies, and think critically about human rights as a discourse rather than merely training for it as a profession.

 

Program Requirements

 

Students moderate into the Human Rights Program alone or in combination with another program (usually through a joint Moderation), by fulfilling the other program’s requirements and the following program requirements. All students, whether joint or stand-alone majors, must anchor their studies of human rights in a disciplinary focus program of their choice (e.g., anthropology, sociology, economics, etc.).

 

Moderation Requirements:

 

1.     HR core course (see list below)

2.     HR core course (see list below)

3.     HR core course (see list below)

4.     HR 4-credit elective course

5.     Course in the disciplinary focus program

6.     Course in the disciplinary focus program

 

Graduation Requirements:

 

7.     HR 4-credit elective course

8.     HR 4-credit elective course

9.     HR 4-credit elective course at the 300-level

10.   HR 303 Junior Research Seminar

11.   Course in the disciplinary focus program

12.   Course in the disciplinary focus program at the 300-level

13.   Senior Project I

14.   Senior Project II

 

Examples of HR core courses:  HR 101 Introduction to Human Rights; HR 105 Human Rights Advocacy; HR 125 Human Rights: What Remains?; HR 213 Gay Rights, Human Rights; HR 224 Lexicon of Migration; HR 226 Women's Rights, Human Rights; HR 233 Problems in Human Rights; HR 234 (Un)defining the Human; HR 242 Arguing with the Supreme Court; HR 243 Constitutional Law; ANTH/HR 261 Anthropology of Violence and Suffering; ARTH/HR 289 Rights and the Image; LIT/HR 218 Free Speech; LIT 2509 Telling Stories About Rights; PHIL 130 Philosophy and Human Rights; HIST 2631 Capitalism and Slavery; HIST 222 History of the Modern Police; HIST 2356 American Indian History; SPAN 240 Testimonies of Latin America.

 

Sample Program of Study

 

First Year

Sophomore Year

Junior Year

Senior Year

 

• HR core course

• HR core course

• focus pgm course

• FYSEM I (fall)

• FYSEM II (spring)

 

• HR core course

• HR elective course

• focus pgm course

 

Moderation (spring)

 

• HR elective course

• HR elective course

• HR 303

• focus pgm 300-level course

 

• focus pgm course

• HR 300-level elective

• Sr. Project I (fall)

• Sr. Project II (spring)