Students

PPGA 391A: Human Rights in a Globalized World is a 3-credit undergraduate experiential learning course on the field of human rights work. This course is offered under the School of Public Policy and Global Affairs in collaboration with the UBC Human Rights Collective and the Office of Regional and International Community Engagement.

Students will engage in research and scholarly informed activism in support of SAR’s Scholars in Prison Project– which seeks to support and free wrongfully imprisoned scholars and students around the world. This year’s case will focus on imprisoned scholars in India, China, Iran, Belarus, and Egypt. 

Students will engage in research and scholarly informed activism in support of SAR’s Scholars in Prison Project– which seeks to support and free wrongfully imprisoned scholars and students around the world.  This year’s case will focus on imprisoned scholars India, China, Iran, Belarus and Egypt.

Students engage in research and analysis to advance the understanding of Canadian cultural heritage and interdisciplinary considerations as to the effects of Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF’s) military actions in the past, present, and future. The third cohort will build on the work of the first two cohorts, and will explore how cultural heritage protection games could be used to inform the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) and engage youth in peace and security processes.

The HRC supports the integration of human rights related experiential learning opportunities into courses. Previous opportunities have focused on advocacy around scholar’s academic freedom, in partnership with the Scholars at Risk Network (SAR). In the future, we aim to expend our opportunities to include various topics in human rights.

The HRC supports various co-curricular engagementships that bring together students, community organizations, and UBC faculty.

See our students’ reflections about their experiences engaging in curricular and co-curricular programs!

The HRC hosted Canada’s first Scholars at Risk (SAR) Student Advocacy Day and engaged with students, faculty, and community of activists working to promote and protect academic freedom and human rights.

Students engaged in research and analysis to advance the understanding of Canadian cultural heritage and interdisciplinary considerations as to the effects of Canadian Armed Forces’ (CAF’s) military actions in the past, present, and future. Through a literature review, students explored how various stakeholders conceptualize ‘space’/’place’ and the relationships of military forces and communities within those spaces.

Students worked collaboratively towards understanding how the Canadian Higher Education sector is responding to threats to Academic Freedom in Canada and how such policies might inform the rights-based approach taken by global SAR Network and the work of SAR-Canada.