POLS 250 Course Highlighted In SSU News
Inside SSU’s High-Stakes Human Rights Simulation: Preventing the Unthinkable
"How do human beings work together across cultures, languages, and national borders to prevent an atrocity? This is the urgent question at the heart of a simulation that Sonoma State University students, SSU faculty, and a handful of partners from other universities participated in last month.
The exercise was the capstone of POLS 250, a three-unit Department of History and Political Science course in which students deepen their understanding of what is involved in predicting and preventing atrocities and genocides.
POLS 250 is a required course for the recently created Human Rights Studies Minor at SSU and will be offered again in Fall 2026. Both the course and the new minor are part of a broader effort to create a space at SSU for study and exploration of human rights and social justice issues."