Social Justice Minor
The minor consists of five credits: a core course, three electives, and an integrative experience course. At least one of the five courses must be a community-based research/service learning course (See footnote1).
Core Courses
The core courses are intended to provide students with the ability to assess contrasting views of what constitutes social justice and include both self-reflection and critical thinking. In addition, core courses may also give historical background on an issue or issues of social injustice and/or provide an introduction to concepts such as oppression and privilege.
| PHIL 214 | Social and Political Philosophy | 1 |
| POLS 210 | Political Theory | 1 |
| ENST 255 | Environmental Injustice | 1 |
Electives
To ensure interdisciplinary study and to encourage students to develop knowledge of a number of different social justice issues, electives are divided into four categories. A student must take their three elective courses from at least two of the four categories and from at least two different disciplines or departments. No more than two courses can be at the 100-level.
A. Gender and Sexuality
| WMST 150 | Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies | 1 |
| PHIL 230 | Feminist Philosophy | 1 |
| EDUC 290 | Gender Issues in Education | 1 |
| PSYC 303 | Critical Psychologies 1 | 1 |
| ANTH 290 | Medical Anthropology | 1 |
| ENGL/WMST 228 | Gender and Sexuality in America | 1 |
| SOCI 239 | Deviance and Identity | 1 |
| HUMN 320 | History of Sexuality | 1 |
| PSYC 232 | Psychology of Women | 1 |
| GEOG 323 | Gender and Geography | 1 |
| SOCI/WMST 328 | Mating and Marrying in America | 1 |
| GEOG 123 | Gender, Place, and Culture | 1 |
| WMST/POLS 254 | Sex and Social Order | 1 |
| PSYC 235 | Human Sexuality | 1 |
| POLS/WMST 238 | Women and Politics | 1 |
B. Race and Ethnicity
| POLS 263 | Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought | 1 |
| MUSC 257 | Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race | 1 |
| ENGL 211 | Southern Exposure | 1 |
| POLS 371 | Minority Politics | 1 |
| POLS 219 | Latin American Politics | 1 |
| ANTH 256 | Anthropology of Native North America | 1 |
| HIST 290 | Europe Imperialism and Colonialism | 1 |
| RELI 209 | Israel: Land, People, and Tradition | 1 |
| POLS 246 | Race Ethnicity and American Politics | 1 |
| HIST 223 | Twentieth-century African-American History: Eyes on the Prize | 1 |
| HIST 219 | Antebellum America | 1 |
| IREL 245 | Race, Nation-state and International Relations | 1 |
| POLS 211 | Third World Politics | 1 |
| ENGL 315 | Unsettling Memories | 1 |
| IREL 215 | Cultural Dimensions of International Relations | 1 |
| SOCI 243 | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 1 |
| ECON 270 | South Africa: Social Entrepreneurship | 1 |
| SOCI 327 | Race, Citizenship and Human Rights | 1 |
C. Poverty, Inequality and Class
| ECON/WMST 236 | Unemployment and Poverty 2 | 1 |
| ECON/GEOG 350 | Classical Marxism 2 | 1 |
| ECON/MGMT/PSYC 270 | South Africa: Social Entrepreneurship 1, 2 | 1 |
| GEOG 209 | Economic Geography 2 | 1 |
| ECON 258 | Intermediate Political Economy | 1 |
| ECON 458 | Marxian Economics | 1 |
| EDUC 318 | Multiculturalism and Education | 1 |
| ECON 309 | Globalization and Its Implications | 1 |
| HIST 290 | Europe Imperialism and Colonialism | 1 |
| IREL/UNIV 252 | Political Economy of Global Resources | 1 |
| SOCI 322 | Sociology of Medicine | 1-1.5 |
| GEOG 237 | Grassroots Development: Nicaragua 1 | 1 |
| PSYC 307 | Culture and Child Development | 1 |
| GEOG/IREL/LAMS 292 | Service-Learning in Nicaragua | 1 |
| EDUC 101 | Social Foundation of Education | 1 |
| SOCI 130 | Medicine and Society | 1 |
| SOCI 215 | Human Service Systems 2 | 1 |
| PSYC 320 | Children's Studies 1 | 1 |
| IREL 251 | International Inequality and Poverty 2 | 1 |
| SOCI 311 | Globalization, Technology, and Cultural Change | 1 |
D. Environmental Justice
| ENST 245 | Environmental Policy and Politics | 1 |
| ENST 325 | Nature, Wealth and Power | 1 |
| ANTH 260 | Environmental Anthropology | 1 |
| IREL 270 | Global Governance of Climate Change | 1 |
| ENST 211 | Environmental Pollution and Control | 1 |
| UNIV 200 | Integrative Perspectives Course (04: Food Justice/Food Insecurity) 1, 2 | 1 |
| UNIV 200 | Integrative Perspectives Course (01: Climate Change Science and Ethics) | 1 |
| SOCI 220 | Environmental Sociology | 1 |
| ENST 221 | Hazardous Waste and Society | 1 |
| ENST 205 | Green Utopias | 1 |
| ENST/ENGL 225/HUMN 290 | Susquehanna Country 1 | 1 |
Integrative Experience
Integrative experience courses provide students with the opportunity to apply their knowledge of social justice toward the development of a project or toward extensive participation in community-based research.
| UNIV 335 | Practicing Democracy: Active Citizenship, Community Engagement, and Social Change | 1 |
| SOCI 322 | Sociology of Medicine | 1-1.5 |
| SOCI 351 | Field Research | .5-2 |
| MSUS 400 | Sustainablility Action Learning Project | 1 |
Poverty Studies Concentration
Students may choose a concentration in Poverty Studies by choosing a core course, integrative experience course and at least two electives that focus significantly on issues of poverty. These courses (See footnote2) allow students to combine their coursework with a poverty studies internship offered each year through the Shepherd Consortium.
| 1 | Community-based research/service learning course |
| 2 | Poverty studies course |
Faculty
Coordinator: David Kristjanson-Gural