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Dec 13, 2024
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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Social Justice Minor (E, A)
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The Social Justice Minor provides interdisciplinary exploration into understanding and working towards social justice. The minor explores social justice from a variety of disciplines, voices, and perspectives. Students have the opportunity to gain knowledge and skills to reduce oppression and inequity and utilize critical thinking to challenge bias. A social justice minor complements a variety of disciplines, offering the graduate practical skills and knowledge applicable to everyday life.
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REAL Curriculum
The Social Justice minor will require students to complete 18 credit hours of course work, a minimum of 9 credits in designated ‘E’ courses and 9 credits in designated ‘A’ courses within the REAL curriculum. In E designated courses, students will engage in course work that requires understanding diverse ideas and perspectives. Students will be asked to critically reflect, evaluate and synthesize information on diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice. For A designated courses, students will describe behaviors, beliefs, values, societal engagements, and cultural environments relating to social justice. Students will also be asked to analyze the choices and behaviors of groups, as it relates to striving for social justice.
General Education Requirements
General Education courses will be denoted below with a (GE). Students are required to take at least 30 credit hours of general education designated courses within their degree requirements. The Social Justice minor includes 3-6 general education credits.
Minor Requirements (18 credits)
Required Courses (9 credits)
Cultural or Behavioral Analysis Elective (3 credits)
Choose one course from the following list.
Humanistic or Artistic Expression Electives (6 credits)
Choose two electives from the following list. At least one must be at the 300-400 level.
- ANSC 305 - Principles of Ethnography (GE)
- COMS 433 - Communication and Social Change
- ENGL 210 - Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Caretaking (WI) (GE) OR
- HHUM 210 - Narratives of Illness, Disability, and Caretaking (WI) (GE)
- HIST 304 - Environmental History (EU, GL) (WI)
- HIST 307 - Women in World History (EU, GL)
- PHIL 215 - Healthcare Ethics (GE)
- PHIL 219 - Environmental Ethics (GE)
- PHIL 342 - Philosophy, Science, and Values (WI)
- PHIL 385 - Social and Political Philosophy (GE)
- POSC 354 - Ethics in International Affairs
- RELN 112 - Religions in Culture and Society (GE)
- RELN 213 - Healthcare and the American Religious Landscape (GE)
- RELN 313 - Religion and Culture (GE)
- RELN 314 - Social Problems and the Bible
- RELN 375 - Religious Freedom, Law, and American Identities
Total Credits Needed for Minor 18
Additional Information
Students engaging in the social justice minor will have access to information and resources on D2L specific to social justice.
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