Program Overview
Designed to support teachers of early childhood through college, as well as educators working in non-formal settings such as community organizations, the Masters in Human Rights and Educational Justice entails understanding the promise of rights guarantees and the gap between rights and actual realities.
Program Delivery
The program follows a schedule of alternate weekend classes that convene nine times a semester (Friday evenings and all day Saturdays).
A hallmark of the Masters in Human Rights and Educational Justice program is its flexibility to work with diverse students. You can complete the coursework requirements in as few as 18 months (two academic year semesters plus the summer term) and extend the program as long as needed (up to 5 years). Most students complete the Masters program in 2 academic years with summer coursework often included.
Our Curriculum
HREJ is dedicated to understanding formal and informal education within diverse sociocultural, linguistic, political and economic contexts.
Based on principles of intersectional justice, human rights, and solidarity, our courses critically address the realities of education within and beyond the borders of public schooling in the United States and around the world, while also building new ways of being and doing.
Our program equips students with the skills needed to engage in community engaged scholarship, teaching and organizing work that addresses many of the key issues impacting education today.
Capstone Projects
As part of a final capstone project, students can choose to write a thesis or field project (for example, create a curriculum, design a program coupled with a written project that summarizes their knowledge and experience). Want to check out past master’s projects? Human Rights and Educational Justice projects are posted in our Scholarship Repository.
Student projects in USF's repository
We are updating our curriculum. Updates will be posted in June.