# 2025-2026 General Catalog

**Source**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/human-rights-studies/human-right-studies-minor/
**Parent**: https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/#programsanddegreestext

[Office & Contact Information](https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/departments-programs-degrees/human-rights-studies/)

[Human Rights Minor](https://human-rights.ucdavis.edu/human-rights-minor)

The Human Rights Minor provides students with an opportunity to explore human rights as a critical element of our contemporary world.

Courses in the minor approach human rights as a problem for humanity, policy, advocacy and humanitarian action, as well as a subject for historical, ethical, social scientific and cultural study. Students will examine moments of terrible human rights abuse: genocide, slavery,  colonialism, Apartheid, and sexual and gender-based violence. They will also learn about movements to protect and promote human rights, including the elaboration of the contemporary human rights régime, efforts by international and local non-governmental human rights organizations, and artistic and literary responses to human rights challenges.

The minor is administered by the [Human Rights Studies Program](https://human-rights.ucdavis.edu/).

## Program Objectives

In addition to completing [HMR 134](https://catalog.ucdavis.edu/search/?P=HMR%20134 "HMR 134"), students must take three additional Core Courses and one course from the Elective Course list.

## Advising

Consult the [Department office](http://human-rights.ucdavis.edu/).

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