跨学科研究文学硕士-社会正义与人权

跨学科研究文学硕士课程中的社会正义和人权集中度是灵活设计的，使您可以将研究重点放在最关注的问题上。同时，该计划为理解一系列社会不公和人权问题对社会，政治，文化，历史和经济的影响提供了深厚的理论基础。它强调全球性和交叉性的方法，同时让学生想像和运用策略来创建和维持一个更加公平，公正和人道的世界。华盛顿特区是研究社会正义和人权的战略场所。您将有机会与将当代对社会变革的理解付诸实践的激进主义者和组织会面并合作。将由一支跨学科的教职团队教授，这些团队结合了当代理论和哲学框架，例如交叉性理论，酷儿理论，和批判种族理
The Social Justice and Human Rights concentration in the Master of Arts in Interdisciplinary Studies program is flexibly designed to allow you to focus your studies around the issues to which you are most committed. At the same time, the program provides a deep theoretical foundation for understanding the social, political, cultural, historical, and economic implications of an array of social injustices and human rights issues. It emphasizes a global and intersectional approach while engaging students in imagining and applying strategies for creating and sustaining a more equitable, just, and humane world.The Washington, D.C., area is a strategic place to study social justice and human rights. You will have opportunities to meet and work with activists and organizations who are putting contemporary understandings of social change into action.You will be taught by an interdisciplinary team of faculty who combine contemporary theoretical and philosophical frameworks--such as intersectionality theory, queer theory, and critical race theory--with the knowledge and strategies of past and present change-makers. Faculty are engaged in social justice work worldwide, including in the Middle East, Southeast Asia, Latin America, and in our own community.In addition to taking a small number of core courses, you will have the opportunity to shape your program around your social justice and human rights interests. Current and former students have focused on issues such as racial justice, educational rights, (dis)ability rights, indigenous rights, animal rights, the abolition of human trafficking. Others have focused on regional contexts such as the Middle East, Central Europe, East Africa, or Central America.