The Center supports the following graduate and undergraduate human rights programs at Columbia University:
• M.I.A.: Human Rights Program
• L.S.M.A.: Human Rights Studies Program
• LL.M.: Human Rights Fellows Program
• Certificate Program for Ph.D. candidates: Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights
• M.A., Ed.M., Ed.D. in International Education Development: Specialization in Peace Education
• Undergraduate Programs
• Other Related Programs
• M.I.A.: Human Rights Program (website)
The School of International & Public Affairs (SIPA) offers a two-year master's degree in international affairs (MIA) with a concentration in Human Rights. The MIA Human Rights Program is designed to prepare students for a wide range of non-legal careers concerned with human rights, such as in policy & research, monitoring & peacekeeping, or NGO & governmental work. The program's interdisciplinary package of courses, applied workshops, and practical internships to prepare for careers in the human rights field. The program is directed by Professor Peter Danchin.
SIPA Admissions Office — sipa_admission@columbia.edu,
(212) 854-8690
Program Information — Prof. Peter Danchin, pgd6@columbia.edu,
(212) 854-6224
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• L.S.M.A.: Human Rights Studies Program (website)
The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS) offers a master's degree in liberal studies (LSMA) with a focus on Human Rights. The program is designed to introduce students from diverse backgrounds and with different professional interests to the general legal and philosophical principles and the history of human rights. These include those who work in areas in which knowledge of human rights would be useful or appropriate such as, business, social work, media, politics, religion, and education. Those in the program choose a concentration in one of the four areas: Economics & Development; Communications; Health; or Women & Human Rights. The program is directed by professors Paul Martin (CSHR executive director), Joan Ferrante (professor of English), and Peter Juviler (professor of political science).
LSMA Office — liberalstudiesma@columbia.edu, (212) 854-5972
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• LL.M.: Human Rights Fellows Program (website)
The Human Rights Fellows Program at Columbia Law School was established to support candidates with a commitment to human rights who apply to the Graduate Legal Studies Program for a Master of Law degree (LL.M.). The program is designed for students who, having earned a basic law degree, wish to pursue a further course of full-time study in preparation for teaching, government service, or international practice in law. The objective of the LL.M. Human Rights Program is to train legal scholars, teachers and activists from around the world in human rights law and practice.
Law School Admissions Office — Click
here to request information online, (212) 854-2655
Information on HR studies and fellowships at Columbia Law School —
The
Human Rights Institute , human_rights@law.columbia.edu,
(212) 854-2493
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• Certificate Program for Ph.D. Candidates: Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights (website)
This program is designed for doctoral students for whom human rights questions bear substantively on their primary academic interests. The Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights is comprised of Columbia faculty members from different disciplines who counsel graduate students in the selection of courses and research topics related to human rights. The program is designed primarily to complement a student's disciplinary preparation for the dissertation and offers a certificate upon the completion of twenty-seven points of study. Students must be admitted to and meet the requirements of a participating academic department namely, Philosophy, Political Science, History, Sociology, Law, Social Work and Public Health, as well as those of the Interdepartmental Committee on Human Rights. Currently, a year long Human Rights Colloquium is offered for doctoral students only in the preparation of their doctoral dissertations.
Program Information —
Prof. Andrew Nathan [Political Science/East Asian Studies], ajn1@columbia.edu
Center for the Study of Human Rights, cshr@columbia.edu
, (212) 854-2479
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• M.A., Ed.M., Ed.D. in International Education Development: Specialization in Peace Education (website)
Teachers College offers a specialization in Peace Education with a major human rights component to students working towards the M.A., Ed.M., or Ed.D. degree studies in International Education Development. The Program maintains a specialized reading room.
Program Director — Dr. Betty Reardon
Program Associate Director — Ms. Janet Gerson
Program Coordinator — Anthony Jenkins
Program Information — peace-ed@exchange.tc.columbia.edu
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• UNDERGRADUATE HUMAN RIGHTS PROGRAMS
Undergraduate
Human Rights Program at Columbia University
The Undergraduate Human Rights Program at Columbia College serves
Columbia College and the School of General Studies. Columbia College students and General Studies students may do a Special Concentration in Human Rights. Students are encouraged to participate
in the lectures, conferences, and other events sponsored by the Center for the
Study of Human Rights and the other human rights programs at SIPA and the School
of Public Health, and are encouraged to intern at New York City human rights
organizations.
Acting Program Director: Prof. Sam Moyn, Department of History, s.moyn@columbia.edu
Program Administrator: Radha Webley, rw2146@columbia.edu
Barnard
College
The Barnard College Committee on Human Rights Studies offers a combined-major
program. The program engages students in the interdisciplinary discussion
of rights, providing them with a knowledge of the theory and practice of human
rights, stimulating critical examination of the historical and conceptual antecedents,
selection and formulation, enforcement and violation, political and discursive
uses of human rights and allowing them the opportunity to reflect on human rights
as a set of institutions and practices. The program is designed to be pursued
alongside a major in one of the departments with a disciplinary or area studies
focus-including, but not limited to-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian and
Middle Eastern Cultures, Comparative Literature, English, French, German, History,
Italian, Political Science, Psychology, Religion, Slavic, Sociology, Spanish
and Women's Studies.
Program Information — Prof. Rachel McDermott, rmcdermo@barnard.edu, (212) 854-6416
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For more detailed information on these and other human-right-related programs at Columbia University, please go to the newly-launched Human Rights at Columbia portal site — www.humanrights.columbia.edu.
For information on human rights programs at other universities, see our list of university-based human rights programs.
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