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• Freestanding Minor Requirements • Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs • Graduate Minor in Human Rights |
Admission to the Graduate Human Rights Minor (HRM) is restricted to graduate students, and doctoral or professional students already enrolled in a degree program at the University of Minnesota . A G.P.A. of 3.0 is required. Students wishing to pursue the minor will submit a letter of application to the Human Rights Program in the Institute for Global Studies. The letter of application should describe the student’s background and motivation for applying to the program. (A template for the letter is available here .) Further information may be requested by the Director of Graduate Studies (DGS). In general, students must take courses listed outside their home departments (unless the courses are cross-listed with other departments) to count them toward the graduate minor. Both master’s degree and doctoral students are strongly encouraged to declare the minor when filing the Degree Program form. The Degree Program form is available on the Graduate School website. Freestanding Minor Requirements The human rights minor is available to master's and doctoral students. The minor is intended to provide an interdisciplinary foundation in human rights studies and practical experience in human rights work, coordinated through the program director. Completing a master’s degree program with a Human Rights Minor. A master's minor in human rights requires completion of nine credits: two of the four core courses, at least one elective course (three credits) taken from a designated course list, and one six-week internship approved by the DGS. The internship length is based on an assumption of approximately full-time work, five days a week for a total of at least 200 hours. Students may meet the total hourly requirement over the span of more than six weeks subject to DGS approval. Candidates for the HRM should follow the guidelines laid out by the graduate school for completion of their master’s degree program. Details about completing the master’s degree are available on the Graduate School website. Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs Hubert H. Humphrey School of Public Affairs (HHH) students (MPP and MPA) may pursue a pre-approved self-designed concentration in human rights. Requirements of the concentration are equivalent to those required for master's students (i.e. nine credits and a six-week internship with a minimum of 200 hours work) as set forth above. Humphrey students wishing to pursue the concentration should propose it on their program plan and inform the DGS that they are pursuing the concentration. The faculty contact for HHH is Professor Katherine Fennelly.. Law School students must complete the requirements of the Law School 's concentration in Human Rights Law (12 credit hours of course work of which at least two courses are from a "required list" and at least one course has a substantial writing and research component.) The contact for the concentration in Human Rights Law is Professor David Weissbrodt. Further information about the concentration in Human Rights Law is available on the Law School Website. |
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