Undergraduate
"Commit
yourself to the noble struggle for human rights. You will make a greater person
of yourself, a greater nation of your country and a finer world to live in."
-
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The Essex Human Rights Centre is one of the oldest and most respected academic
human rights centres in the world. We were the first UK University to establish
human rights undergraduate degrees and celebrate the 10th anniversary of our
undergraduate degrees this year. Our graduates are to be found working in human
rights organisations across the globe and many credit their professional success
to the academic and vocational education they enjoyed at Essex. An Essex human
rights undergraduate degree encourages students not just to better understand
the world, but also to develop key skills required in order to help make the
world a better place. The Essex model of human rights education thus combines
standard lectures, seminars and classes with a comprehensive range of
professional skills development workshops, events and study tours. Essex is
widely regarded amongst human rights organisations, such as the UN, the EU, the
OSCE and Amnesty International as producing some of the best qualified and most
able human rights professionals. We are proud of our continuing contribution to
producing successive generations of human rights professionals and of the human
rights education we offer at Essex.
Dr Andrew Fagan, Director of Academic Studies
The Human Rights Centre is committed to expanding upon undergraduate
and postgraduate courses and modules. The latest fruit of this exciting process
is the new BA Human Rights.
The BA Human Rights offers a comprehensive and first-class
multidisciplinary education in human rights. Students will engage with core
issues in such areas as; the moral basis of human rights, global and national
political human rights challenges, key international legal instruments for the
protection of human rights and a wide range of other key human rights issues.
The BA Human Rights also includes formal support and training in core
employability skills for budding human rights professionals as a central element
of our commitment to our students’ ambitions to secure human rights careers.
On completion of the BA Human Rights students should have developed a
sophisticated knowledge and understanding of human rights which benefits from
the distinctly multi-disciplinary structure of our education.