Courses

The courses listed below are approved electives for both Human Rights certificates. Sophomores may back count up to two courses as electives for the human rights certificates.

Courses currently offered that count as Human Rights certificate electives are searchable on courses.yale.edu with the course attributes “YC Human Rights Domestic” and “YC Human Rights International.” If a course you feel strongly about counting towards your Human Rights Certificate elective requirement does not have a Human Rights attribute, you can petition for it to be accepted by filling out the Human Rights Certificate Exception Request Form.

Importantly, students are required to consult the certificate director(s) for course planning when they: (1) still need to take one or more courses in human rights in order to complete their certificate requirements; (2) are registering for courses for their final semester before graduating; and (3) are planning to take a course that does not have a human rights course attribute and request a course exception for it. There is no guarantee that a course exception petition will be approved.