Overview

The Displacement Studies and Human Rights program offered by Arcadia University requires students to develop a grasp not only of the causes of sustained displacement, including, but by no means limited, to genocide and targeted persecution; resource exploitation and environmental racism; acute climatological events and ongoing climate change. Students also come to comprehend that displacement is most often the ongoing product of complex interactions between different causes which together create dislocation.

Key Facts

The DSHR major takes a holistic, antiracist, and social justice approach to human rights and displacement, in several respects. First, students in this major develop a critical and historically grounded understanding of human displacement, which situates contemporary processes of global dislocation in the ongoing legacies of European Colonialism’s foundational projects: Indigenous dispossession and the chattel enslavement of Africans. Second, DSHR empowers students to draw connections between the global dislocation of, say, asylum seekers from the Global South and the dislocations rendered by gentrification and eminent domain in the Global North. Finally, students learn to cultivate applied practices in partnership with displaced persons, including training and internships in international law and domestic refugee law, that allow them to develop and realize their own human rights-informed social justice projects that foster human emplacement.

Programme Structure

Courses Include:

Antiracist Immigration Law and Advocacy

Social Life of War

Law, Disorder, and Globalization

International Human Rights

Model United Nations
Sociology

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-01-19 00:00:00
- Apply before 2026-10-01 00:00:00 , International
Starting 2027-08-30 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-05-01 00:00:00 , International

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National students: There is no deadline to apply, but they encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible.

Language

English

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Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Glenside, United States

Disciplines

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Academic requirements

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General requirements

Submit your application online, and reach out to our admissions team at any point for support.
Transcripts: Submit the original or certified true copy of your secondary school transcript with a literal translation in English performed by a licensed translator and signed in ink. The academic report should include a list of subjects studied, a qualitative rating on a course-by-course basis, and an overall rating.
Test Scores: SAT/ACT scores are optional for F-1 high school students in the U.S. Other applicants should submit either SAT/ACT scores or proof of English language proficiency.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

51230 USD / year

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Out-of-State

51230 USD / year

≈ 51230 USD / year
Domestic

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In-State

51230 USD / year

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Living costs

Glenside

United States

1000 - 1500 USD / month

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