The following courses are offered to Hertie School's MPP and MIA students, in particular to those following the Human Rights & Global Governance concentration area of the MIA programme.
Centre Faculty
International Law: This course aims to provide a foundation in international law for MIA students. The course covers the sources of international law, the terrain of international courts, tribunals and monitoring institutions, principles and doctrines of international law, as well as the operation of international law in selected contemporary issue areas covering international security, human rights, migration, global trade and the climate crisis.
This course is for 1st year MIA students.
Climate crisis and human rights: The course offers an in-depth examination of the relationship between the climate crisis and human rights. The course will cover why and how the climate crisis is a prominent human rights issue globally and will offer tools to critically evaluate the mutual supportiveness and possible tensions between human rights and climate action.
This course in an elective course.
Migration and human rights: The course serves as an introduction to current migration practices and their interconnection with human rights. Many states are engaged in migration practices, which are in violation of their human rights commitments, such as push-backs. During the course, the reasons and implications of such involvements will be assessed and discussed.
This course in an elective course.
Human rights and new technologies: Do Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies undermine human rights? Do they offer ways to enhance accountability and human rights protections? This course addresses these questions and explores the intersection of human rights and new technologies, focusing on the legal, social and policy challenges arising from their development and deployment.
This course in an elective course.
Certificate Programmes
The Centre for Fundamental Rights offers a certificate of attendance to Hertie School students, who take part in its thematically organised termly colloquium.
More information on the colloquium is available here.
Professional development courses offered by the Centre for Fundamental Rights
Open-source investigation for human rights: Ethics, methods and practices (Sam Dubberley, in collaboration with Human Rights Watch): This course will discuss the history, ethics, methods and best practices associated with open source research and how it can be incorporated into documentation and investigation processes for human rights advocacy and accountability. More information here.
Strategic Campaigning for Human Rights (Dr. Begüm Başdaş): The two-day Skills Workshop aims to provide students with the fundamental tools of strategic campaigning for human rights. Each session will address different elements of campaigning such as establishing short and long-term campaign objectives, target audiences and influencers, key messaging, and communication strategies as well as monitoring, evaluation, and risk analysis within campaign strategies. More information here.
Please note that the annual curricula may vary.