Peace and Social Justice Minor

Minor requirements

The minor in Peace and Social Justice consists of minimum 20 credits.

Courses in the minor provide students with an opportunity to approach social justice as a practical as well as an intellectual problem. Students take one of four gateway courses to introduce then to key social justice issues and explore fundamental questions regarding the role and responsibility of the individual and the collective is securing justice. In addition, students will take two 200-level courses and two 300-level courses.

One of the following gateway courses:

PHIL 121 - Faces of Injustice
POLS 109 - Introduction to International Relations
SOC 104 - Contemporary Social Problems
WGS 101 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
WGS 102 - Introduction to LGBT+ Studies
or SOC 102 - Introduction to LGBT+ Studies

Electives

Of the following four elective courses, at least one course must focus on the United States and at least one course must have a global focus.

Two of the following 200-level courses:

Global Focused courses:
ANTH 245 - Indigenous Movements of Latin America
ECON 233 - Sweatshops in the World Economy
GER 265 - Representations of the Holocaust
GLAM 266 - Gender, Power and the Gods
ITAS 235 - Women in Modern Italy
MUSC 212 - World Music: Africa and the Americas
MUSC 223 - Music of South America and Mexico
MUSC 224 - Music of the Caribbean Basin: A Continent of Islands
POLS 285 - Women and Politics
REL 108 - Engaged Buddhism
REL 142 - Religion and Sexuality
REL 219 - Gender and Sexual Violence in the Bible
REL 232 - Faith after the Holocaust
REL 242 - Religion and Ecology
SOC 200 - Social Movements
SOC 240 - Conflict and Genocide
SOC 270 - Immigration
U.S. Focused courses:
ART 298 - Printmaking for Social Change
ARTH 220 / WGS 220 Grant Writing for Social Justice
ARTH 222 / WGS 222 Learn to Negotiate
ARTH 263 - African American Art and Design
ECON 222 - Economics of Race and Racism
ECON 241 - Women in United States Economy
ECON 242 - Economics of Education
ECON 252 - Urban Economics
ECON 262 - Health Economics
ECON 288 - Foundations of Political Economy
EDUC 240 - Multiple Perspectives on Literacy
EDUC 250 - Education and Equity in the U.S.
EDUC 270 - Gender and Education
ENG 209 - African American Literature and Culture
GER 270 - Black in Berlin
or WGS 274 - Black in Berlin
HIST 213 - The History of the Civil Rights Movement
HIST 220 - Latinos in the U.S.
HIST 233 - United States Women, 1790-1890
HIST 234 - United States Women since 1890
MATH 217 - Mathematics, Voting, and Democracy
MGMT 210 - Business and Management Responsibility
MGMT 225 - Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
PHIL 242 - Medical Ethics
POLS 245 - Policing as Governance
POLS 271 - African American Politics
PSY 251 - Multicultural Psychology
SOC 210 - Inequality and Social Justice
SOC 230 - Race and Ethnicity
SOC 245 - How Organizations Work
SOC 260 - Gender Inequality
SOC 264 - Environmental Sociology
SOC 265 - Food and Society
SOC 275 - Disability and Difference
THEA 215 - Theatre and Social Change
WGS 102 - Introduction to LGBT+ Studies
WGS 228 - Transnational Feminisms
WGS 229 - Masculinities

Two of the following 300-level courses:

Global Focused courses:
ARTH 312 - Contemporary African Arts
ANTH 311 - Violence Against Women
or SOC 311 - Violence against Women
or WGS 311 - Violence against Women
ECON 332 - Economic Development
GER 365 - Representations of the Holocaust
GER 370 - Black in Berlin
or WGS 374 - Black in Berlin
GER 380 - Identität und Differenz
ITAS 330 - Modern Italian Theatre
POLS 309 - International Law and Organization
POLS 327 - Black Political Thought
POLS 333 - Popular Movements and Religious Sentiment in the Americas
POLS 337 - Power and the State
POLS 347 - Islamic Political Thought
POLS 357 - Violence and Revolution
REL 342 - Liberation Theology
U.S. Focused Courses:
ARTH 370 - Women at Work: Art History and Feminism
EDUC 375 - Issues in Early Care and Education
HIST 337 - Power and Protest in the United States
HIST 338 - United States Labor History
MGMT 327 - Sustainable Finance
PSY 326 - Political Psychology
SOC 310 - Gender, Race, and Nation
WGS 312 - Feminist Theory