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Honors Certificate in Human Rights Leadership

The Honors Certificate: The FSU Center for the Advancement of Human Rights offers Honors students the unique opportunity of earning an Honors Certificate in Human Rights Leadership. This program makes it possible for Honors students to enhance their degree work in their chosen field by working in an additional interdisciplinary field (human rights) that is of crucial importance in the contemporary world. The Honors Certificate in Human Rights Leadership is not intended as a diploma or degree in its own right, but rather as a specially crafted enhancement to whatever diploma or degree a student chooses to pursue.

Program of Studies: The certificate requires a total of fifteen credits, i.e., five three-credit courses. Two of these courses must be: (1) the freshman Honors Human Rights Seminar, and (2) an individual capstone senior DIS in Human Rights. The other three courses are elective but require the prior approval of the Center’s Executive Director to ensure their relevance to the goals of the certificate program. For Human Rights courses and representative electives, see the attached PDF file Human Rights Courses and Electives.

All credit hours for the certificate program must be earned at FSU, whether on its main campus in Tallahassee or one of its satellite campuses or programs in the United States or abroad. Since this is an Honors certificate program, all courses leading to the award of the certificate must be passed with a grade of B or better, and the student’s GPA within the certificate program must be at least 3.3.

Admission Procedures: To be admitted into the certificate program, applicants must be members in good standing of the University’s Honors Program. Students must also submit a written application in their freshman year, during the semester that they are enrolled in the freshman Honors Human Rights Seminar.

There is no special form. The application requires a written statement in the form of a letter that details: the nature of the student’s interest in human rights as part of his or her baccalaureate career and post-baccalaureate career goals (if these are known); the student’s specific aims regarding human rights education; and a projected set of courses for achieving these aims. In developing their applications, students must consult with at least two faculty members affiliated with the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights.

Completed applications should be submitted to the Executive Director of the Center for the Advancement of Human Rights, 426 West Jefferson Street.

For more information on this program, contact Professor Terry Coonan at tcoonan@admin.fsu.edu


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