Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights

Overview and Contact Information

The goal of the Nexus in Law, Public Policy, and Human Rights is to provide students with the tools necessary to form a deep understanding of how complex relationships between local and national political processes both create public policies and shape legislation and its interpretation. This Nexus provides students with both an academic and experiential lens. Students will choose courses from several departments including politics, economics, history, and sociology in order to examine how both law and public policies are imbedded in much larger social, historical, and economic realities.

See Also

• Politics
• International Relations

Faculty

This area of study is administered by the following Nexus track chair:

Andy Reiter, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Relations

Requirements for the Nexus

A minimum of 18 credits:

Additional Specifications

• Students electing this track are also strongly encouraged to take a course in statistics and/or quantitative analysis, such as ECON-220, PSYCH-201, SOCI-225, or STAT-140
• The sequence of a Nexus is part of what makes it unique. UAF application stages 1 and 2 must be completed before the internship or research project. COLL-211 is taken after the internship or research project and culminates in a presentation at LEAP Symposium.

Courses Counting toward the Nexus