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.
SIX KEY AREAS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INQUIRY
1. Economic Inequality and (in)Justice
2. Race and Justice
3. Environmental and Food Justice
4. Social Protest/Dissent
5. Crime, Law, and Punishment
6. Public Health and Ill-Heath
