Offered with the University of Denver Josef Korbel School of International Studies, the Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master of Arts in International Human Rights (MA) links human rights to development, health, security and humanitarian assistance and will give you the specialized skills needed to engage communities and individuals to address complex problems. Together, these degrees will prepare you to work in international nonprofits, international rights advocacy organizations, international aid agencies, governmental and intergovernmental organizations, the human rights legal profession, and academia.
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Your Career Options
With an MSW and MA in international human rights dual degree, you’ll graduate with a competitive, cross-disciplinary skill set that will give you an advantage in the job market. Career options include:
- Refugee resettlement
- International nonprofits, international rights advocacy organizations, international aid agencies
- Governmental and intergovernmental organizations
- The human-rights legal profession
Featured Social Work Courses
SOWK 4355
Genocide: A Social Justice Issue
About this Course
Genocide is both the gravest of crimes under international law and the ultimate violation of human rights. Unfortunately genocides and other atrocities continue to happen around the globe, including during our present day. This course studies the role that nationalism, propaganda, the media and film have played and continue to play in genocide. You will study how these factors played out in Armenia, the Holocaust, Rwanda, Bosnia and with the Rohingya people. Understand the role of power, privilege and oppression as well as political forces in defining a crime against humanity as a genocide or not.
SOWK 4763
Social Work and Social Justice in South Africa
About this Course
This course provides experiential and service learning social work experiences. Course activities encourage cross-cultural learning experiences and will increase your knowledge of South Africa’s social, cultural, environmental, political and historical reality. You will learn about community development challenges as well as environmental and social justice issues in a South African context. Increase your personal, community and global leadership potential.
SOWK 4762
Bosnia in Transition: The Social Work Transition
About this Course
This course will provide you with the unique opportunity to learn firsthand about the social work response in post-war Bosnia through a social justice lens. You will explore the social, cultural, historical, political, economic, religious, legal and ethnic characteristics of the former Yugoslavia as context for studying the genocide that occurred in the 1990s. Learning will occur in the classroom at GSSW, followed by travel to Bosnia where you will be exposed firsthand to the local, national and international efforts toward rebuilding and healing.
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Key Faculty
Ann T. Petrila
Professor of the Practice, Coordinator of Global Initiatives, Director of Global Practice Bosnia
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