Social Justice

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Social Justice

Through your experiences in the Social Justice track you will:

• Understand socio-cultural inequalities of systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
• Develop critical self-reflexivity through identify exploration in the context of complex, intersecting systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
• Be able to describe positionality and how it informs commitment to diversity and social justice.
• Explore and recognize diverse perspectives and lived experiences in relation to positionality and systems of power, privilege, and oppression.
• Examine impact of positionality in navigating systems of power, privilege, and oppression to advance social justice.
• Apply knowledge of positionality and systems of power, privilege, and oppression.

Sample courses and Co-curricular experiences:

Courses

• Introduction to Gender and Women's Studies (GWS 201)
• Community Policing in a Diverse Society (CJS 465)
• Performance and Social Change (CMST 317)
• American Indian History (HIST 352)

On-Campus Experiences

• Cultural Student Organizations
• Gerontology Club
• Power in Diversity Conference
• Women on Wednesday speaker series

Off-Campus Experiences

• Hands Across the World
• Martin Luther King Day Community Event