The BA in Human Rights & Global Justice is an honours program that focuses on the global and international dimensions of human rights, their dynamics, and reach, as well as their diverse forms and expressions in local, regional, and national settings. The Program will provide students with a wide-angled and yet determinate framework for the understanding of human rights in a global context. Students will receive a strong intellectual foundation structured by four main components, including:

• Legal instruments, norms, institutions, and mechanisms at an international level, and their translation into national and subnational contexts;
• Theories, historical background, philosophical and cultural underpinnings;
• Movements and advocates (including social movements, civil society organizations, labour unions, public sector organizations, etc.) that take up human rights norms and principles in their struggles for social justice, and multiple social and cultural practices that embody human rights as a cosmopolitan ethic.
• Limitations of human rights, particularly in failing to address economic injustice in the context of market-driven development and certain kinds of structural and historical injustices, as well as challenges to human rights from alternative cultural and philosophical foundations.

By emphasizing both the theoretical and practical aspects of human rights, the BA Human Rights & Global Justice will prepare students to become active and engaged citizens, equipped with the knowledge and skills to critically evaluate and participate in ongoing struggles for social justice. Students will receive rigorous, interdisciplinary formation and practicum experience.