A total of 4 Elective Courses may be selected from an approved cognate list and from special topic courses created by the Program each semester.

The approved list of cognates comprises courses drawn from 16 academic departments and programs, giving students a wide range of traditional disciplinary perspectives to examine claims about the universal nature of human rights, their historical origins, social and cultural contexts that affect the understanding and status of human rights, and the relation of human rights to political conflicts and the presence or absence of economic well-being.
• Complementing the elective cognates offered by regular Hunter departments, the Human Rights Program itself offers special topic elective courses taught at Roosevelt House each semester by distinguished human rights practitioners.
• Students enrolled in the Minor track may count one course in their major toward fulfilling the elective requirement.
• Students should work with the Human Rights Program adviser to put together an intellectually meaningful set of elective courses.

• To be accepted into the Minor program, a student must have completed HR 20000 with a B and have a cumulative GPA of 3.0.

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