Human Rights & Educational Justice, MA

This program offers conceptual, methodological and practical tools that allow us to examine current realities while building sound alternatives, going deep as author Adrienne Marie brown describes, "...into the soil and find the root causes for harm and transform the systems and societies such that harm becomes impossible”. We seek to build capacity to engage in public scholarship, pedagogy, and community-based work that addresses many of the key issues impacting education today.

I chose the Human Rights Education program because of its commitment to justice, education, and changing lives. The faculty are actively doing the work they teach in the classroom. The classroom settings are personal and filled with joy and hope. The support professors are great at making you aware of opportunities to help you as a learner, scholar, educator, and person."

— Brian Anthony Davis '21

How is our curriculum is informed?

• By social movements and movement building praxes.
• An internationalist focus that is rooted in the understanding of the intersectionality of struggles across the world and how local and global processes are inextricably linked.
• The intersectionality of race, class, nation, language, gender and sexuality.
• By globalization and migration studies.

Program Overview

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Our students arrive at USF as educators, filmmakers, community organizers, after-school program directors, and more, eager to explore new ways of reading the world using a human rights framework

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