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Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Social justice emphasizes equity and fairness in all aspects of human experience. The Social Justice minor allows students to explore injustices such as cultural imperialism, exploitation, human rights abuses, marginalization, and structural and physical violence using a variety of disciplinary perspectives and tools.

Further, the Social Justice minor encourages students to recognize and work to ameliorate injustice in its myriad forms through a combination of classroom, research, and practical experiences in local and global communities.

Minor Requirements

Course List
Code Title Credits
AMST 201Introduction to American Studies3
Select four electives, three of which must be upper-level, drawn from at least three disciplines12
Select one of the following:3
SOCG 475
Public Sociology
An approved three-credit internship
An approved three-credit course within a study abroad program
Total Credits18

Lower-Level Electives

Course List
Code Title Credits
AMST 203American Protest3
ANTH 211Race in Global Perspective3
ANTH 212Anthropology of Gender3
GEOG 101World Regional Geography3
PHIL 210Social and Political Philosophy3
PHIL 220Introduction to Feminism3
WGST 101Introduction to Women's Studies3

Upper-Level Electives1

Course List
Code Title Credits
AMST 303Junior Special Topics Seminar3
ECON 351CPoverty, Affluence, and Equality3
ENGL 328New World Writing in the Colonial Period3
ENGL 329Literature and Nation-Building in the Americas3
ENGL 352African American Literature Pre-19003
ENGL 360 Literatures of Resistance: Africa, the Caribbean ,and South Asia 3
ENGL 378Science Fiction3
GEOG 331Race and Place in America3
GEOG 332Migration Politics in a Globalizing World3
GEOG 339ADevelopment Studies3
HIST 308US Labor History3
HIST 315U.S. Immigration History3
HIST 385Arab-Israeli Conflict3
SOCG 304Social Stratification3
SOCG 404Global Inequality and Development3
SOCG 421BRacial and Ethnic Relations3
SPAN 345Ideas on Nature in Latin American Literature3
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Additional courses from American Studies, Anthropology, English, History, Modern Languages and Literatures, Sociology, and other disciplines will count with the approval of the Program Coordinator.

Sociology and Anthropology Department

Laura H. Mentore, Chair
Laura H. Mentore, Anthropology Career Advisor
Eric C. Bonds, Sociology Career Advisor

Faculty

(The person’s subject field is indicated in parentheses.)

Professors

Eric C. Bonds (Sociology)
E. Eric Gable (Anthropology)
Jason C. James (Anthropology)
Nora Huijung Kim (Sociology)
Kristin L. Marsh (Sociology)
Leslie E. Martin (Sociology)
Debra J. Schleef  (Sociology)

Associate Professors

Tracy B. Citeroni (Sociology)
Laura H. Mentore (Anthropology)

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