This interdisciplinary Honors minor will investigate these pressing questions from a broad range of perspectives. It will provide students from all majors with the opportunity to incorporate in-depth analysis and awareness of social issues into a wide variety of fields and possible career paths. It will help them as scholars, researchers, lawyers, doctors, scientists, and business and IT experts to think about a wide range of solutions to these pressing problems.
This undergraduate minor will guide students with the following learning goals:
- Define social justice. What is it? Is it one thing? How can it be measured?
- Critically engage the experiences of oppression and privilege of certain populations and communities.
- Provide tools for better understanding public policy and its outcomes.
- Provide a clearer understanding of how individuals, institutions, and society perpetuate and challenge social, economic, health, and environmental injustice.
- Explore theories of justice and polices that aid in the reduction of social inequalities.
- Offer opportunities to think and problem solve in an interdisciplinary fashion.
