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Human Rights & Educational Justice, MA

The MA in HREJ brings together the fields of human rights and educational justice to study key issues impacting education today. Combining these fields offers new opportunities to study power, intersectional solidarities, and the creation of new, collective futures. Students will be equipped with tools to engage in public scholarship, humanizing pedagogies, and community-based work in our innovative two-year, 30-unit program.

Accepting for Fall 2025

I never imagined I would find a place that truly felt like home. Over the course of two years built deep, meaningful relationships with my peers and professors, grew as a scholar, and learned what it means to be an activist with the spaces I navigate daily."

Genesis Morales '24

What are the program highlights?

  • Rich learning opportunities within, and beyond, the classroom with expert faculty
  • Humanizing pedagogies aimed at examining current realities while building sound alternatives
  • A focus on international struggles and how local and global processes are inextricably linked

Program Overview

Join our diverse community

Our students arrive at USF as educators, community organizers, after-school program directors, and more, eager to explore new ways of reading the world using human rights and educational justice frameworks.

Learn more about the student experience

Human Rights & Educational Justice, MA

2130 Fulton Street
San Francisco, CA 94117
Hours

Monday–Friday 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.