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Program Requirements
Note: University regulations apply to all students at Laurier. If there is any discrepancy between the program or progression requirements outlined on this page and those in the university's academic calendars, the academic calendars are the official sources of information. The information below is from the latest calendar, and you may be following progression requirements from an earlier calendar. Students are responsible for checking the appropriate calendar. Contact your program coordinator should you notice any discrepancies.
The Human Rights and Human Diversity Honours BA programs and minor are only available at the Brantford Campus.
You may follow the requirements for the year you begin or a subsequent year, but you must stick to requirements for one year. If you need the progression requirements for another year, see the academic calendars.
Third-year students in the Honours Human Rights and Human Diversity program may additionally be eligible to enrol in graduate certificates in Community and Social Service Management or Human Resource Management through an articulation agreement with Conestoga College (Brantford Campus).
Note: For any academic concerns or help understanding program requirements, contact Academic Advising.
If you are a Human Rights and Human Diversity (HRHD) major at Laurier Brantford, Foundations courses are part of your program requirements. You cannot graduate without finishing the four Foundations courses.
Because the following two courses are the most directly relevant to the HRHD program, we strongly recommend that you complete them in your first year. Senior-level HRHD courses may expect you to be familiar with the material covered in these courses.
- BF190: Modernity and the Contemporary World: This course and its successor, BF199, will help you contextualize the discussions that you will encounter in your HRHD classes, and will give you the intellectual background to form stronger arguments.
- BF290: Academic Literacy: Social Sciences: HRHD requires your ability to process information from all areas and bring it to bear on the literary text in question. The ability to engage texts dealing with human rights and human development with scholarship from the social sciences will make you a more versatile and ultimately more successful student.
The skills and knowledge covered in the following courses are also highly relevant to HRHD. If it weren’t for the fact that we’d like you to take lots of electives in first year, we’d encourage you to take these in first year as well, so we strongly recommend you take them by the end of your second year.
- BF199: Critiques of Modernity: This course, the successor to BF190, will also provide essential context for the discussions that you will encounter in your HRHD classes, especially those dealing with texts written since the beginning of the 20th century.
- BF299: Academic Literacy: Humanities: This course will help you read more carefully, analyze texts more precisely, discern and form better arguments, and write clearer, sharper, better organized essays.