The Human Rights Curriculum Development Project
The Human Rights Program of the University of Chicago, in conjunction with Macalester College and the Midwest Faculty Seminar, has been awarded a grant from the Teagle Foundation to determine how human rights education can advance answers to the “Big Question”: What can I
do to right the wrongs of the world? A grant from the Teagle Foundation will support a
Working Group of 18 – 20 faculty members who will meet over a two year period to address this
question in an on-going discussion of and research into contemporary human rights problems as
well as comparative pedagogy and curriculum development.
This website is intended as an open, online
information center that will include papers commissioned for the Working Group sessions, a
record of the Working Group discussions, and a set of syllabi for human rights courses based in
the humanities and social sciences that can be adapted by other colleges and universities.
