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, and current juniors this year only (Spring 2025) may apply for the intensive certificate, back counting up to three courses for either of the certificate paths.
Currently offered courses (Spring 2025) are searchable on courses.yale.edu with the course attributes “YC Human Rights Domestic” and “YC Human Rights International.” Later this spring, a form will be available by which students may petition certain courses to count as electives.
Human Rights elective courses
COURSE NUMBER
COURSE NAME
AREA
AFAM 160
Rise & Fall of Atlantic Slavery
International
AFAM 244/PLSC 200
The Politics of Crime and Punishment in American Cities
Domestic
AFAM 284
Black Life and the Human/Body
Domestic
AFST 277
Introduction to Critical Border Studies
International
AFST 411
Madness and Decolonization
International
AFST 433
Decolonizing Memory: Africa & the Politics of Testimony
International
AFST 457
Racial Republic: African Diasporic Literature and Culture in Postcolonial France
International
AMST 150
Information, Ethics and Society
Domestic
AMST 190
Race, Class, and Gender in American Cities
Domestic
AMST 206
Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies
International
AMST 314
Gender and Transgender
Domestic
AMST 419
Jews and Photography
International
AMST 435
Inequality in America
Domestic
ANTH 307
Reparation, Repair, Reconciliation: Reckoning with Slavery and Colonialism in Global Perspective
International
ANTH 321/MMES 321/SOCY 318/WGSS 321
Middle East Gender Studies
International
ANTH 381
Sex and Global Politics
International
ANTH 451
Intersectionality and Women's Health
Domestic
EPE 233
Environmental Justice in South Asia
Domestic
EPE 286
Discrimination in Law, Theory, and Practice
Domestic
EPE 421
Ethics, Law and Current Trends
Domestic
ERM 227
The Intersection of Rights and Risks: A Public Health Response to Human Trafficking
International
ERM 231
Hitler, Stalin and US
International
ERM 238
Indigenous Thought and Anticolonial Theory
Domestic
ERM 247/SPAN 234/WGSS 236
Queer Histories from Latin America, Spain, and Latinx USA
International
ERM 257
Transnational Approaches to Gender & Sexuality
International
ERM 279/HUMS 286
Mass Incarceration in the Soviet Union and the United States
International
ERM 285/SOCY 305/LAST 305
Latin American Immigration to the United States: Past, Present, and Future
Domestic
ERM 304
Indigenous Politics Today
Domestic
ERM 356
Latina/x/e Feminism
Domestic
ERM 366/HIST 377/LAST 377
Freedom and Abolition in Latin America
International
ERM 368
Political Violence, Citizenship, and Democracy in Latin America
International
ERM 379
Indigenous Cultures in a Global Context
International
ERM 409
Latinx Ethnography
Domestic
ERM 417
Comparative Settler Geographies
International
GLBL 202
Power, Morals, and Double Standards: Human Rights in U.S. Foreign Policy
International
GLBL 244
Politics of Fascism
International
GLBL 289/HIST 245J/PLSC 431
War and Peace in N. Ireland
International
GLBL 297
Sudan: Crisis and Development, Peace, and Security
International
GLBL 313
United Nations on the Ground
International
GLBL 319
Human Rights and the Climate Crisis
International
GLBL 321
Human Rights Advocacy: Critical Assessment and Practical Engagement in Global Social Justice
International
GLBL 338
Humanity in the Line of Fire – Protecting Civilians in Today’s Armed Conflicts
International
GLBL 405/PLSC 370
Self-Determination, Secession & Accommodation
International
GLBL 425
Atrocity Prevention
International
GLBL 430
Turning Points in Peacebuilding
International
HIST 108J
Health Activism in U.S. History
Domestic
HIST 109J
Activism and Advocacy in the History of American Health Care
Domestic
HIST 115
Precarity as Policy: A U.S. History of Structural Inequity
Domestic
HIST 115J
Civil Rights and Women's Liberation
Domestic
HIST 116J
A History of American Citizenship: Membership and Exclusion; Rights and Belonging in U.S. History
Domestic
HIST 118J
U.S. Immigration Policy: History, Politics, and Activism, 1607-Present
Domestic
HIST 132
Mass Incarceration in Historical Perspective
Domestic
HIST 150J/HSHM 406
Healthcare for the Urban Underserved
Domestic
HIST 170J
American Jewish Citizenship Politics, From Revolution to Civil Rights
Domestic
HIST 267J
Holocaust in Contemporary Culture and Politics
International
HIST 310J
Continuities and Discontinuities of Violence in Latin America
International
HIST 417
Histories of Confinement: From Atlantic Slavery to Social Distancing
International
HIST 427J/HSHM 444
Health, Surveillance, and Refugee Politics
International
HSHM 206
Body Politics: Histories of American Reproductive Rights, Health, and Activism from 1800
Domestic
HUMS 323
Truth and Sedition
International
HUMS 329/HIST 186J
Revolutionary Ideas, 1789-1848
International
LAST 251/PLSC 399/EPE 257
Political Power and Inequality in Latin America
International
PHIL 312/AFST 286
African Political Philosophy
International
PLSC 378/AFAM 186/LAST 214/SOCY 170
Contesting Injustice
International
PLSC 441
Peacebuilding
International
SOCY 144
Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Domestic
SOCY 270
Prison Nation, Race, Gender, Crime, and Abolition Politics
Domestic
SOCY 340
Carcerality and the Environment
Domestic
SOCY 390
Politics and Reproduction
Domestic