Graduate Seminar
The ambition of Center’s graduate seminar is to develop in students a truly interdisciplinary understanding of, and response to, the human rights and international justice challenges of our times.
The Center’s graduate seminar draws students from across the university into dialogue with international speakers and visiting scholars. The seminar focuses on contemporary challenges to human rights and international justice, drawing from readings proposed by the visiting lecturers and faculty. Seminar students discuss emerging issues in human rights and international justice, under the direction of the Center's core faculty, and the class includes sessions with guest lecturers and affiliated faculty. Over the course of the academic year, each student engages in the design of a research project related to the Center’s interdisciplinary study of human rights and international justice under the supervision of at least two of the Center's core faculty.
Certificate Program
The Center for Human Rights and International Justice is pleased to announce the launch of its Certificate Program. The Certificate Program is open to graduate students enrolled in affiliated academic departments in all of the university’s graduate schools, including Masters, J.D., L.L.M., Ed.D. and Ph.D students. The Certificate certifies that the student has: 1) followed a curriculum within his or her graduate studies that emphasized human rights and international justice issues; 2) widened his or her interdisciplinary understanding of these issues by completing one or more courses designated by the Center in other academic departments; 3) completed the Center’s own Seminar in Human Rights; and, 4) written a research paper under the Center’s auspices or completed a practicum supervised by the Center.
The application materials consist of the Application, Program of Study, and the Independent Study forms. All applications must be submitted to Elizabeth King (kingei@bc.edu) by September 5, 2008.