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.
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.