Social Justice Minor
The minor consists of five credits: a core course and four electives. 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.
| ENST 255 | Environmental Injustice | 1 |
| GEOG 218 | Geographies of Justice | 1 |
| PHIL 214 | Social and Political Philosophy | 1 |
| POLS 210 | Political Theory | 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 five categories. A student must take their four courses from at least two of the five categories and from at least two different disciplines or departments. No more than two courses may be at the 100-level.
A. Gender & Sexuality
| ANTH 290 | Medical Anthropology | 1 |
| EDUC 290 | Gender Issues in Education | 1 |
| ENLS 228 | Gender and Sexuality in America | 1 |
| GEOG 323 | Gender and Geography | 1 |
| GEOG 324 | Geographies of Identity | 1 |
| HIST 100 | Thinking about History | 1 |
| HIST 214 | Topics in American History | 1 |
| HIST 222 | U.S. History from the 1940s to the Present | 1 |
| HUMN 320 | History of Sexuality | 1 |
| PHIL 230 | Feminist Philosophy | 1 |
| POLS/WMST 238 | Women and Politics | 1 |
| PSYC 232 | Psychology of Women | 1 |
| PSYC 303 | Critical Psychologies 1 | 1 |
| SOCI 100 | Introduction to Sociology | 1 |
| SOCI 239 | Deviance and Identity | 1 |
| SOCI 241 | Marriages and Families in the 21st Century | 1 |
| SOCI/WMST 328 | Mating and Marrying in America | 1 |
| WMST 150 | Introduction to Women's and Gender Studies | 1 |
| WMST 225 | Modernism on the Margins: Race, Class and Sexuality | 1 |
| WMST 232 | Gender and Sexuality in South Asia | 1 |
| WMST/POLS 254 | Sex and Social Order | 1 |
| WMST/SOCI 332 | Women and the Penal System 2 | 1 |
B. Race & Ethnicity
| ANTH 256 | Anthropology of Native North America | 1 |
| ECON 270 | South Africa: Social Entrepreneurship | 1 |
| ENLS 211 | Southern Exposure | 1 |
| ENLS 315 | Unsettling Memories | 1 |
| GEOG 324 | Geographies of Identity | 1 |
| HIST 100 | Thinking about History | 1 |
| HIST 214 | Topics in American History | 1 |
| HIST 219 | Antebellum America | 1 |
| HIST 220 | American Civil War and Reconstruction | 1 |
| HIST 223 | Twentieth-century African-American History | 1 |
| HIST 290 | Europe Imperialism and Colonialism | 1 |
| IREL 215 | Cultural Dimensions of International Relations | 1 |
| MUSC 257 | Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race | 1 |
| POLS 211 | Third World Politics | 1 |
| POLS 219 | Latin American Politics | 1 |
| POLS 246 | Race Ethnicity and American Politics | 1 |
| POLS 263 | Race and Ethnicity in American Legal Thought | 1 |
| POLS 371 | Minority Politics | 1 |
| RELI 209 | Israel: Land, People, and Tradition | 1 |
| SOCI 243 | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | 1 |
| SOCI 280 | Twentieth-century Afro-Caribbean and African-American Thought | 1 |
| SOCI 327 | Race, Citizenship and Human Rights | 1 |
| UNIV 234 | Transformative Dialogue and Social Justice 2 | 1 |
C. Poverty, Inequality, & Class
| ANTH 266 | Money, Markets and Magic 2 | 1 |
| ECON/WMST 236 | Gender, Race and Poverty 2 | 1 |
| ECON 251 | Logic Limits Economic Justice | 1 |
| ECON 258 | Intermediate Political Economy | 1 |
| ECON/MGMT/PSYC 270 | South Africa: Social Entrepreneurship 1, 2 | 1 |
| ECON 309 | Globalization and Its Implications | 1 |
| ECON/GEOG 350 | Classical Marxism 2 | 1 |
| ECON 458 | Marxian Economics | 1 |
| EDUC 101 | Social Foundation of Education | 1 |
| EDUC 318 | Multiculturalism and Education | 1 |
| GEOG 101 | Globalization, People, and Place | 1 |
| GEOG 209 | Economic Geography 2 | 1 |
| GEOG 237 | Grassroots Development: Nicaragua 1 | 1 |
| GEOG/IREL/LAMS 292 | Service-Learning in Nicaragua | 1 |
| GEOG 324 | Geographies of Identity | 1 |
| HIST 290 | Europe Imperialism and Colonialism | 1 |
| IREL 210 | The Politics of International Aid and Development 2 | 1 |
| IREL 240 | Human Security 2 | 1 |
| IREL 252 | Political Economy of Global Resources 2 | 1 |
| IREL 430 | Global Poverty: Politics and Practices 2 | 1 |
| PSYC 307 | Culture and Child Development | 1 |
| PSYC 320 | Children's Studies 1 | 1 |
| SOCI 130 | Medicine and Society | 1 |
| SOCI 204 | Growing up Rich/Poor in America 2 | 1 |
| SOCI 215 | Human Service Systems 2 | 1 |
| SOCI 218 | Health and Community 2 | 1 |
| SOCI 219 | Culture and Power | 1 |
| SOCI 311 | Globalization, Technology, and Cultural Change | 1 |
| SOCI 322 | Sociology of Medicine | 1-1.5 |
| SOCI 329 | Millennials in the Workplace | 1 |
| SOCI 351 | Field Research | .5-2 |
| WMST 251 | Women and Development | 1 |
D. Environmental Justice
| ANTH 260 | Environmental Anthropology | 1 |
| ENST 205 | Green Utopias | 1 |
| ENST 211 | Environmental Pollution and Control | 1 |
| ENST 221 | Hazardous Waste and Society | 1 |
| ENST 236 | Environmental Ethics | 1 |
| ENST 245 | Environmental Policy and Politics | 1 |
| ENST 246 | Environmental Activism | 1 |
| ENST 255 | Environmental Injustice | 1 |
| ENST 325 | Nature, Wealth and Power | 1 |
| GEOG 101 | Globalization, People, and Place | 1 |
| IREL 270 | Global Governance of Climate Change | 1 |
| MSUS 400 | Management Consulting | 1 |
| UNIV 200 | Integrated Perspectives Course (04: Food Justice/Food Insecurity) 1, 2 | 1 |
| UNIV 200 | Integrated Perspectives Course (01: Climate Change Science and Ethics) | 1 |
E. Law, Religion, & Human Rights
| IREL 255 | International Law | 1 |
| POLS 219 | Latin American Politics | 1 |
| RELI 280 | Religion and Constitutional Law | 1 |
| RELI 281 | Religion and American Politics | 1 |
| SOCI 251 | Violence and Society | 1 |
| SOCI 309 | How Holocausts Happen | 1 |
| SOCI 327 | Race, Citizenship and Human Rights | 1 |
Poverty Studies Concentration
Students may choose a concentration in Poverty Studies by choosing a core course and at least three 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: William F. Flack