Learning Outcomes

The department expects undergraduate minor in the program to be able to demonstrate the following learning outcomes. These learning outcomes are used in evaluating students and the department's undergraduate program. Students are expected to be able to:

1. Define, analyze, and critique what is meant by “human rights” and a “rights-based approach” in diverse contexts;

2. Identify, classify, and compare the major instruments and institutions that form the global human rights regime;

3. Understand, distinguish, and draw insight from the ways different academic disciplines frame, interrogate, and employ human rights concepts;

4. Compare and appraise how practitioners working in diverse professional sectors understand and implement human rights concepts;

5. Apply their written and oral communication skills to engage constructively in dynamic discourse about our shared and conflicting conceptions of normative values and the practical application of these norms to rights advocacy and accountability for abuse.