The Human Rights Program at St. Thomas is one of the few such programs in all of Canada, and the only one in Atlantic Canada, that allows undergraduate students to obtain a Major in the academic study of Human Rights. In this program, you study Human Rights in a national and international context and do individualized research projects on specific topics in your upper years of study. The program provides knowledge of the philosophy, legal instruments, and political institutions that are the foundation for an education in Human Rights.

Graduates from the Human Rights Program move on to many areas of work and further study. As the major in Human Rights is a double major program, students complete a second major in addition to their major in Human Rights. Depending on the combination of programs, graduates often find themselves pursuing careers in journalism, humanitarian work, law, social work, politics, education, policing, and more.