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Dec 03, 2024
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2024-2025 Academic Catalog
Social Justice Studies Major
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Freyberg
Social Justice Studies explores the important terrain between ideals of justice and the everyday local and global experiences and expressions of injustice. The major educates critical thinkers into the history of oppressions. It encourages creative and committed thinking from various interdisciplinary perspectives, with the goal of creating an informed global and local citizenship committed to strategic; committed, accountable, and reflexive engagement in social justice work.
Students will complete ten courses plus a capstone as follows:
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Two courses in historical understanding of justice issues
(at least one from the History department):
One course in philosophical approaches to justice:
One course that grounds appreciative understanding of difference and related justice issues in written and creative arts:
One course that examines policy, politics, and/or economics:
One course in research skills needed for conducting social justice advocacy OR one course in skills for disseminating social justice ideas:
An additional elective course, which may be any SJS designated course, any of the courses listed above, or:
Note:
HONR’s courses except Foundations 1 or 2 may be counted at discretion of the director when such courses focus on justice issues
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