Knowledge
Students will be able to integrate and apply the complex skills and thematic knowledge required to navigate and address complex humanitarian crises effectively.
Diverse Perspectives
Students will be able to apply logistical, legal, political, economic, cultural, and environmental lenses to humanitarian affairs, and to appreciate the values and strengths of people from different cultural/ethnic/political/religious backgrounds and perspectives.
Critical Inquiry
Students will be able to analyze and research the historical, structural, and cultural parameters in which humanitarian crises develop.
Applied Learning
Students will be able to apply interdisciplinary skills to navigate, manage, and address a variety of humanitarian crises in both national and international contexts.
Communication
Students will be able to communicate effectively in challenging humanitarian contexts, clearly communicating their knowledge while demonstrating intercultural awareness, trauma awareness, and conflict sensitivity.
Ethical Reasoning
Students will be able to apply ethical reasoning to assess humanitarian problems, their possible solutions, and impacts on various stakeholders.
MS Humanitarian Action
Degree Requirements
| COURSES | UNITS |
| KROC Foundations | 3 |
| MSHA 500: Foundations: Peace, Justice, & Social Change (3) | |
| MSHA Foundations | 3 |
| MSHA 501: Foundations of Humanitarian Action (3) | |
| Core Courses | 12 |
| MSHA 520: Disaster Management and Prevention (3) | |
| MSHA 530: Humanitarian Diplomacy (3) | |
| MSHA 540: Displacement, Climate and Humanitarian Action (3) | |
| MSHA 595: Logistics for Humanitarian Relief (3) | |
| Skills & Methods | 9 |
| MSHA 513: Program Design, Monitoring and Evaluation (3) | |
| MSHA 590: Data Visualization and Analytics for Humanitarian Action (3) | |
| MSHA 595: Logistics for Humanitarian Relief (3) | |
| Practicum | 3 |
| MSHA 599: Humanitarian Crisis Simulation (3) | |
| TOTAL UNITS | 30 |