Social Justice Advocacy
This certificate in social justice advocacy includes several approaches through multidisciplinary coursework. This will give students a broad range of knowledge and options in how to strive for and achieve equity and change. This certificate will give individuals education that focuses on the opportunities to use a combination of multiple approaches to get to change and social justice, providing the individual with varying degrees of skills where one may feel competent and able to actively address the issues of inequality and inequity.
Social Justice Advocacy Certificate Declaration of Intent
Coursework
Required Core Courses (Complete 3)
- SW3550 Social Diversity & Cultural Understanding (3 | DV)
- ENVST3365 Environmental Justice (3 | DV, CEL)
- Course prerequisites waived for SJA certificate students. Submit a permission code request form.
- SW5535 Social Justice Advocacy Techniques & Skills (4)
- NOTE: Only offered Spring Semester
Core Areas
Take one course from each core area.
Global Understandings
- CLCS3960 Cultures in Contact (1-3)
- GEOG1400 Human Geography (3 | BF)
- PHIL3640 World Religions (3 | HF, IR)
- PHIL3730 Justice & International Affairs (3 | IR)
- POLS2200 Introduction to Comparative Politics (3 | BF)
- POLS3680 Globalization & World Politics (3 | IR)
- POLS3700 Urban Politics (3)
- PRT3610 The Global Citizen: Responsible Travel & International Life (3 | IR)
- SW4100 Global Community Based Research (3 | IR)
- THEA1760 American Political Theatre (3 | DV, FF)
Dynamics of Power
- COMM3030 Communication & Social Responsibility (3 | HF, CW)
- CMP4260 Land, Law, & Culture (3 | CW)
- ENGL3600 Introduction to Critical Theory (3 | CW)
- ENTP2030 Social Entrepreneurship & Innovation (3)
- GNDR3635 The Price of Gender: Inequality at the Intersection of Family, Gender, & Sexuality (3 | QI)
- SOC3650 Population & Society (3 | IR, QI)
- WRTG3870 Writing as Social Practice (3 | HF)
- WRTG4890 Writing, Persuasion, & Power (3)
Communication with Stakeholders
Elective
- Choose one additional course from any of the core areas (3)
Course substitutions may be available. Contact an academic advisor for more information.