HRTS 543: Advancing Human Rights through Technology -- Summer Session 2 (July-August 2026)

HRTS 543: Advancing Human Rights through Technology

Fully online course -- 7 weeks, Summer Session 2 (July-August 2026)

Modern technologies -- like artificial intelligence (AI), smartphones, social media platforms, and encryption -- open doors for human rights advocates. At the same time, they create new risks and harms in the form of bias and discrimination, disinformation, online and physical attacks, surveillance, and more.

This course examines the real-world promises and challenges of modern technologies for human…