One week before America celebrated Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday, USC's department of political science made its own contribution to King's legacy of civil rights advances. The department added human rights as a minor this semester, the fifth minor the department offers. The core course for the class is POSC 448a, The Politics of Peace: Human Rights. The minor will require 14 additional units, mostly selected from upper division political science, international relations, anthropology and history courses. An internship, community involvement or independent project is also required. POSC 448a professor Alison Dundes Renteln's students came to her with a petition during the fall of 2004, encouraging her to pursue the creation of the minor. Renteln, who is also the director of the Jesse M.
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