Peace and Social Justice Minor

Minor requirements

The minor in Peace and Social Justice consists of minimum five courses.

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 - Citizen and Society
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:

ANTH 210 - Feast or Famine: The Ecology and Politics of Food
ANTH 245 - Indigenous Movements of Latin America
ANTH 260 - Women and Development
ARTH 263 - African American Art and Design
CLAS 266 - Gender, Power and the Gods
ECON 222 - Economics of Race and Racism
ECON 233 - Sweatshops in the World Economy
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
ECON 298 - Enterprising Non-Profits
EDUC 240 - Multiple Perspectives on Literacy
EDUC 250 - Schooling in America
EDUC 270 - Gender and Education
ENG 209 - African American Literature and Culture
GER 265 - Representations of the Holocaust
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
ITAS 235 - Women in Modern Italy
MATH 217 - Voting Theory
MGMT 210 - Responsibility
MGMT 225 - Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
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
MUSC 272 - African American Originals I: Spirituals, Blues and All That Jazz
PHIL 242 - Medical Ethics
PHIL 255 - Feminism, Philosophy and the Law
POLS 245 - Policing as Governance
POLS 271 - African American Politics
POLS 285 - Woman and Politics
PSY 251 - Multicultural Psychology
REL 108 - Engaged Buddhism
REL 142 - Religion and Sexuality
REL 219 - Gendered and Sexual Violence in the Bible
REL 232 - Faith after the Holocaust
REL 242 - Religion and Ecology
SOC 200 - Social Movements
SOC 210 - Inequality
SOC 230 - Race and Ethnicity
SOC 240 - Conflict and Genocide
SOC 245 - How Organizations Work
SOC 260 - Gender Inequality
SOC 264 - Environmental Sociology
SOC 265 - Food and Society
SOC 270 - Immigration
SOC 275 - Disability and Difference
THEA 215 - Theatre and Social Change
WGS 102 - Introduction to LGBT+ Studies
WGS 228 - Transnational Feminisms
WGS 298 Women and War
WGS 298 - Masculinities

Two of the following 300-level courses:

ANTH 311 - Violence Against Women
or SOC 311 - Violence against Women
or WGS 311 - Violence against Women
ARTH 312 - Contemporary African Arts
ARTH 370 - Women at Work: Art History and Feminism
ARTH 398 - Slavery, Protest, and the Public Monument
ECON 332 - Economic Development
EDUC 375 - Issues in Early Care and Education
ENG 349 - Harlem Renaissance and Modernity
GER 365 - Representations of the Holocaust
GER 370 - Black in Berlin
or WGS 374 - Black in Berlin
GER 380 - Identity and Difference in German Culture
HIST 337 - Power and Protest in the United States
HIST 338 - United States Labor History
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
PSY 326 - Political Psychology
REL 342 - Liberation Theology
SOC 310 - Gender, Race, and Nation
WGS 312 - Feminist Theory