14 courses with the subject HRTS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
HRTS 1025001/00377 T Th 11:40am - 12:55pm Widney Brown 3.005
418 Barnard Hall 3.00 HRTS UN3001 INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN RIGHTS. 3.00 points. 3 Evolution of the theory and content of human rights; the ideology and impact of human rights movements; national and international 3 human rights law and institutions; their application with attention to universality within states, including the U.S. and internationally 3.00 Fall 2025: HRTS UN3001 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
HRTS 3360001/00378 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Widney Brown 4.00 21/20
318 Milbank Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 419 POLS BC3410 COLLOQUIUM ON HUMAN RIGHTS IN A DIVERSE WORLD. 4.00 points. application through the Barnard department only. Enrollment limited to 16 students. Barnard syllabus. Examination of human rights within the context of international migration. The course covers topics such as citizenship, state sovereignty, border control, asylum-seekers, refugees, and undocumented immigrants. (Cross-listed by the Human Rights
POLS V1013 or W3001 or the equivalent. Admission by
HRTS 3850001/00421 T 4:10pm - 6:00pm Widney Brown 4.00 21/20
227 Milbank Hall HSPB UN2950 Social History of U.S. Public Health. 4.00 points. The purpose of this course is to provide students with an historical understanding of the role public health has played in American history. The underlying assumptions are that disease, and the ways we define disease, are simultaneously reflections of social and cultural values, as well as important factors in shaping those values. Also, it is maintained that the environments that we build determine the ways we live and die. The dread infectious and acute diseases in the nineteenth century, the chronic, degenerative conditions of the twentieth and the new, vaguely understood conditions rooted in a changing chemical and human-made environment are emblematic of the societies we created. Among the questions that will be addressed are: How does the health status of Americans reflect and shape our history? How do ideas about health reflect broader attitudes and values in American history and culture? How does the American experience with pain, disability, and disease affect our actions and lives? What are the responsibilities of the state and of the individual in preserving health? How have American institutions--from hospitals to unions to insurance companies--been shaped by changing longevity, experience with disability and death? Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 581 NSBV BC3387 TOPICS IN NEUROETHICS. 4.00 points. Behavioral Neuroscience, Fundamentals of Neuropsychology, or permission of the instructor. Enrollment limited to 20 students. Recent advancements in neuroscience raise profound ethical questions. Neuroethics integrates neuroscience, philosophy, and ethics in an attempt to address these issues. Reviews current debated topics relevant to the brain, cognition, and behavior. Bioethical and t philosophical principles will be applied allowing students to develop skill in ethical analysis Fall 2025: NSBV BC3387 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
HRTS 3931001/00424 Th 2:10pm - 4:00pm Widney Brown 3.00 13/20
119 Milstein Center ANTH BC3932 CLIM CHNG/GLOBAL MIGR/HUM RGT. 4.00 points. While the existence of processes of anthropogenic climate change is well established, predictions regarding the future consequences of these processes are far less certain. In no area is the uncertainty regarding near and long term effects as pronounced as in the question of how climate change will affect global migration. This course will address the issue of climate migration in four ways. First, the course will examine the theoretical and empirical literatures that have elucidated the nature of international migration in general. Second, the course will consider the phenomena of anthropogenic climate change as it relates to migration. Third, the course will consider how human rights and other legal regimes do or do not address the humanitarian issues created by anthropogenic climate change. Fourth, the course will synthesize these topics by considering how migration and climate change has arisen as a humanitarian, political, and economic issue in the Pacific. Human Rights elective Spring 2026: ANTH BC3932 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol
HRTS 3935001/00676 W F 12:10pm - 2:00pm Jennifer 5.00 22/20
111 Milstein Center Trowbridge HRTS UN3936 Human Rights and Social Justice in NYC. 5.00 points. This seminar and engaged pedagogy course is centered around close collaboration with a community-based organization in New York City. We will divide our time between an intellectual study of the history, theory, and practice of human rights protections, and address the semester's specific topic as it is unfolding locally and nationally, in real time. As an engaged pedagogy course, the academic and project- based work will be conducted in conjunction with, and for the benefit of, an organization involved in local social justice work. The course is therefore fundamentally designed around the lives, experiences, and needs of real people in New York City and the organizations dedicated to advancing their demands. Our partner organizations serve the needs of their members or clients in various ways, including but not limited to: legal representation, public policy advocacy, rights' campaigns, and educational outreach. Students will work directly with members and/or clients of these organizations as they draw upon human rights frameworks to make specific demands to ameliorate their circumstances. Ultimately, students will use their academic knowledge, reading and writing skills, and newly-gained on-site experience to complete a specific project intended to further the causes and needs of the community-based organization and its members SOCI UN3937 Sociology of Human Rights. 4.00 points. Sociology came to the study of human rights much later than law, philosophy, or political science. In this course, you’ll learn (1) what constitutes a sociology of human rights and (2) what sociology, its classics, and its diverse methods bring to the empirical study and theory of human rights. We’ll explore the history, social institutions and laws, ideas, practices, and theories of human rights. We’ll become familiar with the social actors, social structures, and relationships involved in practices such as violation, claims-making, advocacy, and protection. We’ll consider how social, cultural, political, and economic forces affect human rights issues. We’ll learn about the questions sociologists ask, starting with the most basic (but far from simple) question, “what is a human right?” We’ll tackle key debates in the field, considering – for instance – whether human rights are universal and how human rights relate to cultural norms/values, national sovereignty, and national security. Finally, we’ll apply the concepts we’ve learned to a wide range of issues (ex: how racial, ethnic, gender, and other social inequalities relate to human rights), rights (ex: LGBTQ rights, the rights of laborers, the rights of refugees), and cases (ex: enslavement, the separation of children from their families, circumcision, sterilization, the use of torture). We’ll consider human rights cases in the United States and across the globe, and how events and actions in one place relate to human rights violations in another ent
HRTS 3940001/11291 M W 10:10am - 11:25am Glenn Mitoma 3.00 63/65
141 Uris Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 423 HRTS UN3960 Refugees, Rights, and Representation. 3.00 points. Given that, according to the UNHCR, there are currently 108.4 million forcibly displaced people worldwide, over 35 million of whom are refugees, it is unsurprising that their predicament preoccupies international lawyers, academics from the social sciences to the humanities, engineers and economists, journalists, policy specialists at NGOs, government officials, artists, tech companies, philanthropists, and, most significantly, displaced persons themselves. This seminar asks how these different actors draw on specific discourses and arguments—technological, scientific, personal, moral, historical— as they construct the figure and the problem of ‘the refugee.’ We will recognize refugee crises as an issue of urgent public concern as well as an occasion for interrogating how such crises are represented across academic, legal, and cultural conversations. Does displacement caused by personal persecution, natural disasters and climate change, armed conflict, or economic deprivation invite different kinds of international attention or sympathy? Where does the sanctuary promised the citizen end and the hospitality owed the stranger begin? How do contemporary developments in climate science, social media technologies, and big data intersect with discourses on refugees? And if ‘the refugee’ tells the lie to the nation state’s capacity to account for the world’s people, what other forms of political and social organization does the refugee live, inspire, create, or warn against? To consider such questions, we will examine political theory, history, anthropology, and philosophy; analyze international legal documents, policy proposals, investigative journalism, and NGO reports; and engage with novels, poetry, film, and photography, among other materials HRTS UN3970 Introduction to Genocide Studies. 3.00 points. This course provides students with an introduction to the study of genocide. In this class, we will take a critical approach to understanding genocide, meaning: we will try to avoid easy moralizing and distancing of genocide; we won’t take existing legal and political definitions of genocide for granted; and we will think about power in ment relation to genocide perpetration and prevention. Our strategy will be interdisciplinary, meaning: we will explore the ways historians, psychologist, lawyers, political scientists, and others have tried to understand genocide; and we will reflect on the limits on what and how we can know about genocide as a human experience. This course aspires to be practical and applied, meaning this course fundamentally anti-genocidal in its purpose, and students will have the opportunity to contribute to and/or develop practical efforts commemorate, advocate against, or prevent the perpetration of genocide Fall 2025: HRTS UN3970 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment
HRTS 4950001/10314 W 2:10pm - 4:00pm Bruce Cronin 3.00 13/222
411 Hamilton Hall HRTS GU4955 Narrative and Representation in Post-Conflict Societites. 3 points. This course explores the relationship between narrative and the legacy of violence and atrocity in post-conflict societies, focusing particularly on the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia (and more briefly Indonesia and Armenia). Examining a range of medium – including, but not limited, to eye-witness accounts, memoirs, history books, government reports, film, theater, memorials - we will consider how different narratives address issues of history and memory, justice and judgment. We will also discuss how narrative influences efforts to achieve reconciliation and come to terms with the past on both personal and societal levels. Does revisiting the past allow people who either suffered or inflicted terrible violence – or both – once again llment live together? Are there particular modes or genres of narrative that are particularly successful in terms of enabling societies to reflect on their past and respond adequately? Can justice and accountability ever be achieved?These are some of the questions we will consider as we examine the ways in which atrocities are written about, remembered, judged and interpreted.
