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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 and Activism	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
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 213	Gender and Politics in Comparative Perspective	1
POLS 388	Gender & International Relations	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	Reading Race, Gender and Sexuality	1
WMST 232	Gender and Sexuality in South Asia	1

B. Race & Ethnicity

ANTH 256	Anthropology of Native North America	1
ECON 270	South Africa: Social Entrepreneurship	1
EDUC 318	Multiculturalism and Education	1
ENLS 203	Introduction to Race and Literature	1
ENLS 300	Seminar in Literary Theory and Criticism	1
ENLS 311	Seminar in Contemporary American Literature	1
HIST 100	Thinking about History	1
HIST 214	Topics in American History	1
HIST 219	American Abolition	1
HIST 220	American Civil War and Reconstruction	1
HIST 290	Europe Imperialism and Colonialism	1
MUSC 257	Music and Culture: Jazz, Rock, and Race	1
PHIL 229	Philosophy and Race	1
POLS 211	Politics of the Developing World	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 353	Comparative Ethnic Politics	1
PSYC 240	Critical Multicultural Psychology	1
RELI 209	Israel: Land, People, and Tradition	1
SOCI 243	Sociology of Race and Ethnicity	1
SOCI 327	Race, Citizenship and Human Rights	1

C. Poverty, Inequality & Class

ANTH 266	Money, Markets and Magic ²	1
CLAS 337	Use and Abuse of the Past: Adaptation and Revision	1
ECON 204	Intermediate Political Economy	1
ECON/WMST 236	Gender, Race and Poverty ²	1
ECON 251	Logic Limits Economic Justice	1
ECON/PSYC 270	South Africa: Social Entrepreneurship ^{1, 2}	1
ECON 309	Globalization and Its Implications	1
ECON 458	Marxian Economics	1
EDUC 101	Diversity, Equity and the Foundations of American Education	1
EDUC 227	Immigrant Youth in U.S. Society	1
EDUC 318	Multiculturalism and Education	1
GEOG 209	Economic Geography ²	1
HIST 290	Europe Imperialism and Colonialism	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
POLS 228	Globalization and its critics	1
PSYC 307	Culture and Child Development	1
PSYC 320	Children's Studies ¹	1
SOCI 311	Globalization, Technology and Cultural Change	1
SOCI 351	Field Research	.5-2
WMST 251	Gender, Power and Global Development	1

D. Environmental Justice

ANTH 260	Environmental Anthropology	1
ENST 211	Environmental Pollution and Control	1
ENST 221	Hazardous Waste and Society	1
ENST 232	Identity, Inequality, and the Environment	1
ENST 236	Environmental Ethics	1
ENST 245	Environmental Policy and Politics	1
ENST 246	Environmental Activism	1
ENST 255	Environmental Injustice and Activism	1
ENST/ENLS 278	World Literature and Environmental Justice	1
ENST 286	Imagining Sustainability	1
ENST 325	Nature, Wealth and Power	1
UNIV 200	Integrated Perspectives Course (The Anthropocene)	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

ENLS 290	Special Topics	1
IREL 255	International Law	1
POLS 219	Latin American Politics	1
POLS 274	Human Rights in International Relations	1
POLS 364	Justice and Public Policy	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