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Graduate Program

About the Graduate Minor/Concentration in Human Rights

The Graduate Minor/Concentration in Human Rights provides students in the Graduate School at the University, as well as professional students in the Humphrey Institute and the Law School and opportunity to gain interdisciplinary expertise in the study of human rights laws and mechanisms. The program includes both classroom and field experience in international human rights issues and advocacy.

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Each semester, the University of Minnesota offers a number of courses containing human rights content. These courses can be found at every level of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and in a wide variety of disciplines.

Directory of Graduate Studies and Program Faculty

Name E-mail
Barbara Frey
Director of Graduate Studies and
Director of Human Rights Program		 freyx001@umn.edu
Kathryn Sikkink
Political Science		 sikkink@umn.edu
David Weissbrodt
Law		 weiss001@umn.edu
Elizabeth Heger Boyle
Sociology		 boyle@atlas.socsci.umn.edu 
Karen Brown
Interdisciplinary Center for
the Study of Global Change 		kbt@umn.edue
Katherine Fennelly
HHH		 fenne007@umn.edu
Oren Gross
Law School		 gross084@umn.edu
Sally Kenney
Center on Women and Public
Policy, Humphrey Institute		 kenne030@umn.edu
Helga Leitner
Geography		 eqj6139@umn.edu
Dario Menanteau-Horta
Social Work		 dmenante@umn.edu
Fionnuala Ní Aoláin
Law School		 niaol002@umn.edu
Luis Ramos-Garcia
Spanish ans Portuguese		 laramosg@umn.edu
John R. Vreyens
Agriculture, Food and
Environmental Sciences		 vreyens@umn.edu
Eric D. Weitz
History		 weitz004@umn.edu

Upcoming Events

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Outside Events

  • 64th United Nations Rally & Seminars

    "What it Takes to Save a Child"
    Monday, October 26, 2009
    Minneapolis Convention Center
    1301 Second Avenue South
    Minneapolis, Minnesota

    Program 9:00am-2:00pm
    Cost $30 Luncheon and Seminars

    Special Parking $8.00
    Ramp Entrances at 12th Street and 2nd Ave. South

    Keynote Speaker: Dr. Arthur J. Rolnick, Ph.D.
    "The Economics of Early Childhood Development"

     10/14/09

  • The Deportee's Wife

    The Deportee's Wife
    Wednesday, October 28, 2009
    6:00pm-8:00pm
    Foss Center, Augsburg College
    2211 Riverside Ave
    Minneapolis, MN

    In this solo show, Giselle Stern Hernández's marriage is laid out on the front lines of the North American immigration debate. Giselle's husband Roberto was deported from Chicago, Illinois back to Mexico in April of 2001. Giselle moved to Mexico to live with him in August of that same year.

    10/12/09

  • 26th Annual Human Rights Day

    Friday, December 4, 2009
    8:00 am
    St. Paul RiverCentre
    175 Kellogg Blvd.
    Saint Paul, MN 55102

     07/07/09

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