Social Justice Minor

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The Social Justice Minor is designed to help students develop their interests, knowledge, and skills in addressing current, pressing social justice concerns, especially toward racial, gender, and economic justice. Students from any major across the university are welcome in this minor program, which can help students demonstrate their interest in and knowledge about social justice issues. To further the interdisciplinary nature of this program, students must take courses in more than one discipline to complete this minor.

Requirements (18 hours)

(at least 9 hours must be upper division); one course from each of the six areas below (A-F). All courses are three credit hours, unless otherwise indicated.

A) One of the following introductory Interdisciplinary Studies courses:

AAAS 2100 - Intro Afr/Afr American Study ** Credit Hours: (3)
WMST 2100 - Intr/Women/Gender Study ** Credit Hours: (3)

B) One Interdisciplinary Social Justice Seminar course:

INTD 3010 - Social Justice Seminar Credit Hours: 3

C) One of the following courses about human rights, civil rights, or justice:

ANTH 4221 - Gender and Culture Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4223 - Global Migration and Displacement Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4415 - Anthropology Human Rights Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4416 - Culture/Identity/Power Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4419 - Queer Anthropology Credit Hours: (3)
CJUS 4460 - Race, Ethnicity and Justice in America** Credit Hours: (3)
CJUS 4535 - Capital Punishment/America Credit Hours: (3)
CJUS 4565 - Intimate Partner Violence and Victimization Credit Hours: (3)
CJUS 4570 - Gender, Crime, and Justice in America Credit Hours: (3)
ECON 4210 - Public Economics Credit Hours: (3)
ENGL 3325 - Af/Am Lit thru Harlem Ren ** Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3884 - Civil Rights Movement Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3942 - Queer American History Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 4213 - Women/Gender/Latin America Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 4823 - American Labor History Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 4851 - History of Women in America ** Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3411 - Contemporary Moral Problems ** Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3452 - Feminist Theory Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3515 - Climate Change, Ethics, and the Environment ** Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3550 - Issues in Political Philosophy Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 3320 - Human Rights/World Politics ** Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 3415 - Feminist Political Theory Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 4202 - Constitutional Law: Civil Rights Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 4510 - Politics of Global Economy ** Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 4512 - Global Environmental Politics Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 4513 - Human Security Credit Hours: 3
PSYC 3106 - Social Psychology ** Credit Hours: (3)
PSYC 3236 - Psychology of Gender Credit Hours: (3)
PUBH 2181 - Population Health and Society Credit Hours: (3)
PUBH 3130 - Social Determinants and Health Disparities Credit Hours: (3)

D) One of the following courses about social change or social action:

ANTH 3200 - Culture and Change around the World Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 3282 - American Communities ** Credit Hours: (3)
JOUR 4185 - Social Justice Writing/Reporting Credit Hours: (3)
PADM 3501 - Civic Engagement, Voluntarism Credit Hours: (3)
PUBH 4131 - Public Health & Social Justice Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 2100 - Sociology of Globalization Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3112 - Contemporary Social Problems ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3420 - Sociology of the South Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3701 - Individual and Society ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3940 - Social Change Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 4425 - Environmental Sociology Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 4641 - Sociology/Global Social Change Credit Hours: (3)
SWRK 2010 - Introduction to Social Work** Credit Hours: (3)
SWRK 3010 - Soc Response to Human Need Credit Hours: (3)

E) One of the following courses about racial inequality:

ENGL 4372 - Af/Am Author/Harlem Ren ** Credit Hours: (3)
ENGL 4373 - Af/Am Author since Harlem Ren ** Credit Hours: (3)
ENGL 4374 - Af/Am Lit Movements ** Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3282 - History of Africa since 1500 Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3291 - Modern Asia Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3881 - African American History ** Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3882 - Africa to the Americas Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3883 - Slavery/Freedom/Segregation Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3941 - North American First Peoples Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 4222 - Race/Class in Latin America Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 4801 - Black Memphis Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 4853 - African American Women Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3741 - African American Philosophy Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3751 - Philosophy of Race & Racism Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 3411 - Critical Race Theory Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 3420 - Race and Politics in U.S. Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 4415 - African-Am Pol Thght to 1900 Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 4416 - African-Am Pol Tht from 1900 Credit Hours: (3)
PSYC 3030 - Multicultural Psychology Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3401 - Social Inequality ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3422 - Racial/Ethnc Minorities ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 4420 - Racial Inequality Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 4460 - Black/White Women in South Credit Hours: (3)

F) One elective chosen from any of the options listed in areas A) through E) above or any of the following:

ANTH 3242 - Peoples of Africa Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 3500 - Anth of Global Health ** Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4417 - Food, Culture, Power Credit Hours: (3)
ANTH 4571 - Race and Health Disparities Credit Hours: (3)
EMGT 3100 - Seminar in Emergency Management** Credit Hours: (3)
ENVR 4000 - Environ Studies Directed Rsrch Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 4251 - Environmental Hazards Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 4430 - Social and Economic Geography with GIS Credit Hours: (3)
ESCI 4431 - Urban Geography Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3302 - Modern Europe 1800-Present ** Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3303 - European Empires Credit Hours: (3)
HIST 3863 - American Ideas and Culture Credit Hours: (3)
INTL 1101 - Introduction to International and Global Studies** Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 1102 - Intro to Ethics** Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3571 - Business Ethics and Society ** Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 3772 - Critical Theory Credit Hours: (3)
PHIL 4551 - Social and Political Philosophy Credit Hours: (3)
POLS 3221 - Public Opinion Credit Hours: (3)
RLGN 4050-4065 - Special Topics in Religious Studies Credit Hours: (0)
SOCI 3432 - Sociology of Gender ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3831 - Sociology of the Family** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 3860 - Religion and Society ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 4442 - Sociology of Poverty ** Credit Hours: (3)
SOCI 4851 - Medical Sociology ** Credit Hours: (3)
SWRK 4944 - Encountering Poverty Credit Hours: (3)