Displacement Studies and Human Rights, B.A.

About The Major

The Displacement Studies and Human Rights (DSHR) major is designed for students who want to pursue a concentrated course of study examining and addressing solutions to the systematic and unevenly distributed forms of displacement that transform people into refugees; internally displaced persons; transnational migrants; and so on. This course of study requires students to develop a grasp not only of the causes of sustained displacement, including, but by no means limited, to genocide and targeted persecution; resource exploitation and environmental racism; acute climatological events and ongoing climate change. Students also come to comprehend that displacement is most often the ongoing product of complex interactions between different causes which together create dislocation.

Requirements

The DSHR major requires completion of 14 four-credit classes, or 56 credits total to complete the major. There are 4 required content course courses (16cu total); 4 required research-writing and methods classes (16cu total); 4 core major classes to be selected from the below list or related classes with the advisor’s approval (16cu total); and two electives to be selected from the below list or related classes with the advisor’s approval (8cu total).

Four (4) Required Content Courses (4 four-credit classes: 16cu total)

• IS101: Introduction to International Studies
• IS317: Antiracist Immigration Law and Advocacy
• IS318: Applied Antiracist Migrant Advocacy and/or IS380: International Studies Internship
• PS311: International Law; or AN312: International Migration & Human Rights; or related course with Advisor’s Approval.

Four (4) Required Research-Writing/Methods Classes (4 four-credit classes: 16cu total)

•  IS201: International Studies Research Writing (or other HAPS-RW class).
•  IS490: Senior Thesis Seminar (Fall Capstone)
•  IS491: Senior Thesis Seminar (Spring Capstone)
•  One Methods Class:
•  IS265: Migration Politics in the Americas
•  IS330: Social Life of War
•  AN250: Ethnographic Methods

 Or Advisor’s Approval

Four (4) Core Classes (4 four-credit classes: 16cu total)
From Below or with Advisor Approval

• IS225: Conflict and Inequality in Latin America
• IS265: Migration Politics in the Americas (if don’t use as a method’s class)
• IS320: Global Poverty and Inequality
• IS330: Social Life of War (if don’t use above as methods class)
• IS340: Law, Disorder, and Globalization
• IS345: Natural Resource Wars
• AN312: International Migration & Human Rights (if don’t use above as required core)
• EC330: Natural Resource Economics
• EN344: Culture, Colonialism, & Contact
• GFS381: Sustainable Tourism in Bali
• GFA381: Geographies of Displacement
• PL345: Queer Ideas
• PS246: US-Indigenous Relations
• PS370: International Human Rights
• SO320: Homes, Housing, and Homelessness
• SO325: Women (Local/Global Connections)
• US263: Postcolonialism on Film

Two (2) Electives (2 four-credit classes: 8cu total)
From Below or with Advisor Approval

• HS110: The West in the World
• HS116: Race, Gender, and Class in Modern American History
• PS140: Introduction to International Relations
• PS243: Introduction to Peace and Conflict Resolution
• PS281: Model United Nations
• PBH250: Introduction to Epidemiology
• PBH360: Global Health Environment
• AN370: Anthropological Theory
• SO370: Feminist Theory
• US234: Representation of the Spanish Civil War
• US261: Representations of the Holocaust