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Gender, Law & Human Rights Advocacy

Submitted by kevinkulla on Fri, 09/19/2025 - 14:30

You will take courses spanning law, policy, and global advocacy while building a solid foundation of gender-based methodologies and theory. Choose to participate in the Trent in Bolivia study abroad program, and you will also add hands-on international experiential learning experience to your degree. 

Through this specialization, you’ll develop the expertise to address gender-based violence, discrimination, and economic inequality and the tools to implement feminist perspectives on policy and social change. 

Courses 

3.5 credits in total, consisting of: 

  • GESO 1001H: Thinking About Gender and Social Justice  
  • HURI 1002H: Human Rights Topics 
  • HURI-GDST-GESO 2251H: Gender, Human Rights, and Development 
  • HURI-GDST-GESO-POST-SOCI 3881H: Gender, Globalization, and Resistance 
  • GESO-CAST-CRIM-POST-SOCI 3962H: Gender, Sexualities, and the Law 
  • HURI-GDST-CRIM-SOCI 3121H: Human Rights: Law and Institutions 
  • GESO 3151H: Transnational Sexualities 

0.5 additional credit from: 

  • GESO 3150H: Troubling Trans: Trans Cultures, Theories, and Resistance 
  • GESO 3122/4122H: Activists and Activisms: Social Justice and Decolonial Perspectives 
  • GESO-INDG 2487H: Decolonizing Feminisms 
  • GESO-CAST-CRIM-SOCI 3966H: Criminalizing Women 
  • GESO-CRIM 3965H: Gender-Based Violence: Issues, Impacts, and Resistance 

*GDST 3760Y: Bolivian Seminar may count towards the specialization with approval from the HURI coordinator. 

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Explore how gender and human rights intersect and apply this knowledge through advocacy and social justice on a global scale – all through this unique new specialization.

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