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Social Justice
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Social Justice
Address inequalities in wealth, privilege, and access to resources that are based on differences of an individual’s identity.
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
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