HRTS 542: Advancing Human Rights through the Arts -- Summer session 2025

            HRTS 542: Advancing Human Rights through the Arts 

Fully online course -- 7 weeks, Summer Session 2 (July 7-August 24, 2025)

This course explores visual arts, performance, theatre, puppetry, music, dance, poetry, and ritual. It also considers arts consortia, communities, and venues as sites for human rights documentation, advocacy, appreciation, critical examination, and commentary.

Students will meet and talk online with guest artists and arts advocates who have crafted responses to human rights issues which cannot be "spoken of" fully or compellingly except through use of artistic non-verbal or performative actions and creations.  Students will examine with guest artists the conceptualization, execution, and the personal, social, political, and historical impacts of their projects. Students will also acquire basic skills and create a human rights-focused art project.

Join this course offered by the University of Arizona’s Program in Human Rights Practice. HRTS 542 has no pre-requisites and is open to all UA graduate students from AZ Online and Main Campus. For more info, contact the instructor, Dr. Özlem Ayşe Özgür at ozlem@arizona.edu