Explore the compiled list of University of Michigan undergraduate and graduate courses offerings which address human rights.
Please note: This list may not include recent additions to the curriculum.
U-M Undergraduate Course Offerings
ALA 470.001 Organizing for Global Justice - Ashley Wiseman
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
AAS 104.003 African American History in Slavery and Freedom - Jonathan Daniel Wells
AAS 104.004 Nonviolence: From Montgomery to the World - Scott A Ellsworth
AAS 104.005 Who is Marcus Garvey? - Nesha Z Haniff
AAS 104.006/AMCULT 103.006/HISTORY 197.005 Say It Loud: Black Culture in America - Stephen Berrey
AAS 200.001 Introduction to Afro-American Studies - Kelow-Bennett, Lydia
AAS 202.001 Introduction to African Diasporic Studies - Sandra R Gunning; Kelly M Askew
AAS 231.001/HISTORY 275.001 - Survey of Afro-American History, II - Jason Randolph Young
AAS 250.001 Law, Race, and the Historical Process, I - Ronald C Woods
AAS 262.001/HISTORY 272.001 20th Century African-American Social Movements - Matthew J Countryman
AAS/WOMENSTD 304.001 Refugees of Unjust Worlds: Globalization, Gender and Nation - Amal Hassan Fadlalla
AAS 332.001/335.001 Introduction to Environmental Politics: Race, Class and Gender - Omolade Adunbi
AAS/HISTORY/WGS 337.001 Black Women in the U.S., Part II: Contemporary Perspective in the 20th and 21st Centuries - LaKisha Michelle Simmons
AAS 338.001/AMCULT 311.009/ENGLISH 335.001/ENGLISH 379.001/WOMENSTD 313.002 - Literature in Afro-American Culture - Michael Awkward
AAS 358.012 Writing Sex: Contemporary Black Women Writers - Saraellen Strongman
AAS/WGS 365.001 Global Perspectives on Gender, Health, and Reproduction - Amal Hassan Fadlalla
AAS 451.001 Law, Race and Historical Process - Ronald C Woods
AAS 458.003 DAAS IN ACTION - Damani James Partridge
AAS 458.004 In and Out of the Burning National House: James Baldwin in His Time and Ours - Magdalena J Zaborowska
AAS 458.006/AMCULT 601.004 /HISTORY 698.003 /JUDAIC 617.004/MIDEAST 590.002 Cartographies of Race: Historical Approaches to Examining Race/Racism - Bryan Karle Roby
AAS 495.001 Justice in Africa - Adam Philip Ashforth
AAS 495.006 Mass Movements and Mass Incarcerations - Heath Pearson
Department of American Culture
AMCULT 103.003 /DIGITAL 158.001/ENGLISH 140.004 #TweetLikeANeurotypical: Disability and Digital Activism - M Remi Yergeau
AMCULT 103.006/WOMENSTD 150.004 Race, Gender, Recreation, and Sport in Twentieth Century America - Ava Purkiss
AMCULT 204.009/HISTORY 230.003/JUDAIC 218.001 Israel and America - Bryan Karle Roby
AMCULT/ARABAM 216.001 - Introduction to American Muslims - Nancy Khalil
AMCULT 232.001/ENGLISH 282.001/NATIVEAM 232.001 Native American Literature - Scott Richard Lyons
AMCULT 263.001/HISTORY 262.001 The American South: A History of Race and Culture since Reconstruction - Stephen Berrey
AMCULT/ASIANPAM 301.001 Asian/Pacific Islander Americans in the Civil Rights Movement - Roland Hwang
AMCULT 301.002/FTVM 366.008 Media Activism - Umayyah Cable
AMCULT 308.001/HISTORY 315.001 American Constitutional History - Gregory E Dowd; Rebecca J Scott
AMCULT/ASIANPAM 310.001 Filipino American Experience - Emily P Lawsin
AMCULT 310.002/HISTORY 329.001/RCSSCI 316.001 Law and Social Policy - Leila C Kawar
AMCULT 311.002/HISORY 328.003/WGS 341.001 Transgender American Histories - Scott Larson
AMCULT 311.005/ENGLISH 319.002/LATINOAM 311.001 Literature of the Undocumented - Sigrid Michelle Anderson
AMCULT 311.007/RCHUMS 341.001 Empowering Community through Art - Deborah Mae Gordon-Gurfinkel
AMCULT/HISTORY 374.001 - The Politics and Culture of the "Sixties" - Stephen Berrey
AMCULT 405.005/INTLSTD 470.001/WGS 435.003 Transnational Feminisms - Seda Saluk
AMCULT/LATINOAM/SPANISH 420.001 Latin American & Latino/a Film Studies - Sergio R Villalobos Ruminott
AMCULT 438.001/HISTORY 444.001/JUDAIC 440.001/JUDAIC 640.001/SW 513.001 A History of Jews and Social Justice in the United States - Karla Goldman
ANTHRCUL 252.001 Law and Culture - Jatin Dua
ANTHRCUL 333.001 Non-Western Legal Systems, I - Maxwell K Owusu
ANTHRCUL 349.001 Indigenous Political Movements - Stuart Kirsch
ANTHRCUL 356.001 Filming the Future of 'Diversity' - Damani James Partridge
ANTHRCUL 439.001 Economic Anthropology and Development - Maxwell K Owusu
ANTHRCUL 440.001 Welcome to the Anthropocene - Stuart Kirsch
Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
ASIAN 305.001 Religion and Violence in the Secular World - Arvind-Pal Singh Mandair
ASIAN 338.001 Indian Protest Literature: Human Rights in Translation - Christi Ann Merrill
ASIAN 342.001/WGS 332.001 Gender and Power in Southeast Asia - Deirdre Leong de la Cruz
ASIAN 366.001 Controversies in Contemporary China - Miranda D Brown
Department of Communication and Media
COMM 439.002 Voice to the voiceless: A journalism practice to creating buildings between us and them - Ana Maria Avila Sanchez
Department of Comparative Literature
COMPLIT 240.001 HOME, Homeland and Homelessness - Ruth Tsoffar
COMPLIT 300.003 Engaging the Contemporary - Frieda Ekotto
COMPLIT 376.001/PHIL 355.001 Humanitarianism and Morals - Daniel Alan Herwitz
Department of English Language and Literature
ENGLISH 125.043 What is Social Justice? - Molly Lynch
ENGLISH 203.001 Rhetorical Dimensions of U.S. Civil Rights Movements - Alisse Suzanne Portnoy; Mika Kennedy
ENGLISH 270.001/AMCULT 204.008 Race and American Fiction - Walter I Cohen
ENGLISH 275.001 Human Rights in the Premodern World - Annika Joyce Pattenaude
ENGLISH 318.001 How to Live in a World on Fire: Literary Lessons from Times of Political Unrest and Social Change - Will Potter
ENGLISH 319.001/AMCULT 311.012/WOMENSTD 343.001 Baldwin in the Time of #BlackLivesMatter - Ruby Christina-Marie Tapia; Joshua L Miller
ENGLISH 319.001 What Difference Can a Story Make? - Alisse Suzanne Portnoy; Rachel Wilson
ENGLISH 407.002 Literature and Human Rights - Hadji Bakara
ENVIRON 222.001 Introduction to Environmental Justice - M'Lis Bartlett
ENVIRON/RCDIV 270.001 Globalization and its Discontents: Struggles for Food, Water, and Energy - Ivette Perfecto
ENVIRON 304.009 Social Justice in Anthropocene - Ingri d Diran
ENVIRON 306.001 Global Water - Marc E Gaden
ENVIRON 462.006 Environmental Rights, Justice, and Law - Noah Devan Hall
ENVIRON/EAS 475.001 Environmental Law - Noah Devan Hall
Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies
FTVM 485.001/GERMAN 449.003 The Global Screen: Cinema and Migration - Johannes von Moltke
HISTORY 217.001 Tracking Human Rights: Genealogies, Contexts, Agents - Pamela Ballinger
HISTORY 230.025/AMCULT 204.007 Charting the African American Experience: Key Topics in African American History - Earl Lewis
HISTORY 328.003/INTLSTD 384.001/JUDAIC 318.003/MENAS 332.001/MIDEAST 391.001 Blackness and Jewishness: A History of Encounters - Bryan Karle Roby
HISTORY 345.001/RCSSCI 357.001 History and Theory of Punishment - Heather Ann Thompson
HISTORY 407.002/INTLSTD 401.006/RCSSCI 461.002 The History of Inter-American Human Rights Law - Sueann Caulfield
HISTORY 407.003/INTLSTD 401.007/RCSSCI 361.001/WOMENSTD 435.001 Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights Law - Sueann Caulfield
HISTORY 411.001/POLSCI 319.001 The Politics of Civil Liberties and Civil Rights - Pamela Brandwein
HISTORY 497.003 Making the Modern Mediterranean - Pamela Ballinger
HISTART 393.005/RCHUMS 334.005 Art and Resistance: Global Responses to Oppression - Sascha M Crasnow
HONORS 230.010 Violent Environments: Oil, Development, and the Discourse of Power - Omolade Adunbi
Program in International and Comparative Studies
INTLSTD 101.001/GEOG 145.001 Introduction to International Studies - Howard Tsai
INTLSTD 301.001 History and Practice of Human Rights - Melanie Schulze Tanielian
INTLSTD 301.001 Political Economy of Long-Run Development - Mark Dincecco
INTSLTD 385.00.002/POLSCI 389.40 Political Terror: State Repression of Human Rights - Ragnhild Nordaas
INTLSTD 401.001 Gender, War, and Peace - Greta L Uehling
INTLSTD 401.001 Refugee Voices - Greta L Uehling
INTLSTD 401.001 Human Smuggling, and Human Trafficking in International and Comparative Perspective - Greta Uehling
INTLSTD 401.003 People, Land, and Time - Greta L Uehling
INTLSTD 401.004 Public Health in Conflict and Reconstruction - Anthony Marcum
INTLSTD 401.004/POLSCI 489.001 Sexual Violence and War - Ragnhild Nordaas
INTLSTD 401.011 Activism and Global Politics in the 21st Century - Shimri Zameret
LING 102.001 Deafness and Disability - Natasha Renee Abner
PHIL 366.001 Introduction to Political Philosophy - Daniel Lowe
PHIL 441.001/POLSCI 489.001 Black Political Thought - Christian Davenport; Derrick L Darby
Department of Political Science
POLSCI 160.001 Introduction to World Politics - James D Morrow
POLSCI 307.001 - American Political Thought: Late - Anne M Manuel
POLSCI 339.005/ASIAN 428.005 China's Evolution Under Communism - Mary E Gallagher
POLSCI 348.001 Political Economy of Development - Brian Min
POLSCI 364.001 Public International Law - Barbara Koremenos
POLSCI 389.001 American Constitutional Politics - Mariah A Zeisberg
POLSCI 389.006 Law Culture and Rights - Patrick Peel
POLSCI 389.009 Law and Public Policy - Patrick Peel
POLSCI 409.001 Twentieth Century Political Thought - David Myer Temin
POLSCI 489.005/INTLSTD 401.005 Consequences of Contention - Christian Davenport
POLSCI 498.002/INTLSTD 401.009 Human Rights - Christopher Jennings Fariss
Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
SPANISH 485.001 Human Rights in the Americas - Gustavo Verdesio
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
POLISH 214/REES 214.001 - Rock Poetry and Political Protest in Poland - Piotr Antoni Westwalewicz
SLAVIC 151.001 Rebellion: A Polish Tradition - Piotr Antoni Westwalewicz
Lloyd Hall Scholars for Writing and the Arts
LSWA 228.001 Telling Stories: The Rhetoric and Representation of Race and Ethnicity - Scott W Beal
RCCORE 334.001 Refugee Narratives - Karein K Goertz
RCIDIV 305.001 The Literature of Environmental and Social Justice - Virginia E Murphy
RCDIV 350.001 Detroiters Speak - Craig D Regester
RCHUMS 291.001 The Arts and Social Change - Beth Genne
RCLANG 324.002 Films for Social Change: Visualizing Social Justice - Cristhian Carlo Espinoza-Pino
RCSSCI 250.001 Global Workers' Rights - Leila C Kawar
RCSSCI 250.002 Policing, Power, and Protest in the United States - Nora Krinitsky
RCSSCI 360.001 20th Century Detroit History - Stephen M Ward
RCSSCI 360.001 Documentary Photography: Photographing Struggles for Social Justice - David Turnley
RCSSCI 360.002/SOC 295.002 Labor Movements, Inequality and Democracy - Robert Thompson King
RCSSCI 360.008 Restorative Justice, Prison Reform, Abolition: From Theory to Practice - Becca Pickus
SOC 208.001 Terrorism, Torture, and Violence - Fatma Muge Gocek
SOC 391.001 Justice in Action: Legal and Social Consequences of a Criminal Case - Daniel Ellman
SOC 461.001 Social Movements: Political Protest and Collective Resistance - Pablo Gaston
SOC 430.001 World Population Dynamics - Barbara A Anderson
WRITING 410.001 Understanding Water Crises - Larissa Lubomudrov Sano
Department of Women’s and Gender Studies
WGS 250.001 Race, Gender and Nation - Allison Alexy
WGS 345 Sexual Violence and the State: Global Perspectives - Debotri Dhar
EDUC 450.001 /INTLSTD 401.005 Education, Peace, and Conflict - Michelle Jannette Bellino
HS 404.001 Gender Based Violence: From Theory to Action - Michelle Lynne Munro-Kramer
PUBHLTH 360.001 Community, Culture, And Social Justice (CCSJ) In Public Health - Gary Harper
PUBHLTH 381.001 Public Health Systems: Achievements And Challenges - Melissa Creary
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
PUBPOL 473.003 The Role of Courts in International Human Rights - Hardy Vieux
PUBPOL 474.001 Values & Ethics: Social Justice & Political Conflicts - Yazier Henry
PUBPOL 495.001 Dangerous Peacemaking - Yazier Henry
STRATEGY 400.001 Strategies for Sustainable Development - Andy Hoffman
U-M Graduate Course Offerings
Department of Afroamerican and African Studies
AAS 450.001 Law, Race, and the Historical Process, I - Ronald C Woods
AAS 458.006/AMCULT 601.004 /HISTORY 698.003 /JUDAIC 617.004/MIDEAST 590.002 Cartographies of Race: Historical Approaches to Examining Race/Racism - Bryan Karle Roby
AAS 558.001/ANTHRCUL 558.002 Citizenship and Non-Citizens - Damani James Partridge
AAS 601.001 Blackness and Universality - Damani James Partridge
Department of American Culture
AMCULT 405.002/DANCE 445.001/DANCE 546.001/WGS 431.003 - Dancing Women/Dancing Queer - Clare Holloway Croft
AMCULT/LATINOAM/SPANISH 420.001 Latin American & Latino/a Film Studies - Sergio R Villalobos Ruminott
AMCULT 438.001/HISTORY 444.001/JUDAIC 440.001/JUDAIC 640.001/SW 513.001 A History of Jews and Social Justice in the United States - Karla Goldman
ANTHRCUL 439.001 Economic Anthropology and Development - Maxwell K Owusu
ANTHRCUL 440.001 Welcome to the Anthropocene - Stuart Kirsch
ANTHURCUL 558.001 Anthropologies of Law and Regulation - Jatin Dua
ANTHRCUL 836.001 Governance, Governmentality, and Care - Damani James Partridge
Department of English Language and Literature
ENGLISH 653.001 Topics in Twentieth Century American Literature - Michael Awkward
Department of Film, Television, and Media Studies
FTVM 485.001/GERMAN 449.003 The Global Screen: Cinema and Migration -Johannes von Moltke
Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
GERMAN 701.001 Cinema and Migration: Ways of Seeing Refugees - Johannes von Moltke
HISTORY 407.003/INTLSTD 401.007/RCSSCI 361.001/WOMENSTD 435.001 Gender, Sexuality, and International Human Rights Law - Sueann Caulfield
Department of Political Science
POLSCI 409.001 Twentieth Century Political Thought - David Myer Temin
POLSCI 663.001 Proseminar in International Organizations and Law - Barbara Koremenos
POLSCI 688.002 Black Political Thought - Christian Davenport; Derrick L Darby
SOC 461.001 Social Movements: Political Protest and Collective Resistance - Pablo Gaston
WRITING 410.001 Understanding Water Crises - Larissa Lubomudrov Sano
BL 530.001 Business and Human Rights
TO 560.001/EAS 595.001 Sustainable Operations and Supply Chain Management - Ravi Anupindi
School for Environment and Sustainability
ENVIRON 462.006 Environmental Rights, Justice, and Law - Noah Devan Hall
EHS 558.001 Environmental Law - Noah Devan Hall
EPID 663: Health, Evidence, And Human Rights - Sioban Harlow
LAW 419.001 Economic Exploitation and the Abuse of Rights - Nicolas Browne Cornell
LAW 427.001 Race, Law, and Citizenship - William J Novak
LAW 430.001 Critical Race Theory in Clinical Practice - Kimberly A Thomas; Dana A Thompson
LAW 441.001 Topics/ Surveillance: Law and Tech - Margo Schlanger; J Alex Halderman
LAW 464.001 Human Dignity - John Christopher McCrudden
LAW 469.001 Reproductive Rights and Justice - Leah Mihalchick Litman
LAW 476.001 Corporations and Human Rights - Steven Richard Ratner
LAW 493.001 Sexual Harassment in Employment and Education: The Law, The Politics, The Movement - Catharine MacKinnon
LAW 518.001 Race and the Law - Michelle Pope Crockett
LAW 536.001 Nat'l Security & Civil Liberties - Barbara Mcquade
LAW 630.001 International Law - Steven Richard Ratner
LAW 640.001 Critical Race Theory - Devon Carbado
LAW 681.001 First Amendment - Don Herzog
LAW 687.001 Immigration and Nationality -David B Thronson
LAW 724.001 International Refugee Law - James Hathaway
LAW 745.001 Sex Equality - Catharine MacKinnon
LAW 756.001 Comparative Human Rights Law - John Christopher McCrudden
LAW 787.001 The Impact of Human Rights on International Law - Bruno Eckard Simma
LAW 793.001 Voting Rights / Election Law - Ellen D Katz
LAW 795.001 Crimes Against Vulnerable Communities - Daniel R Hurley
LAW 805.001 Environmental Justice - Allyn David Kantor
LAW 807.001 Civil Rights Litigation - Michael J Steinberg
LAW 845.001 Refugee Rights Workshop - James C Hathaway
LAW 901.001 Civil Rights Litigation Initiative - Michael J Steinberg
LAW 951.001 Human Trafficking Clinic - Elizabeth Anne Campbell; Danielle Nicole Kalil
LAW 974.001 Workers' Rights Clinic I - Rachael Elizabeth Kohl; Andrea Marie Van Hoven
LAW 975.001 Workers' Rights Clinic Research - Rachael Elizabeth Kohl; Andrea Marie Van Hoven
PUBPOL 675 Human Rights and International Policy - Susan Waltz
PUBPOL 710.004 Human Rights, Mineral Extraction, and the Global Supply Chain
PUBPOL 750.003 The Role of Courts in International Human Rights - Hardy Vieux
Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning
URP 583.001 Race, Difference, and Social Justice - Etienne Harley
