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Social and Economic Justice

Associate Professors: Adams (Coordinator), Yingling (Coordinator)

The Social and Economic Justice minor is designed to provide students with a framework to address the causes, consequences, and expressions of social and economic inequalities.

Minor Requirements

One core course from:
SOC 240  Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC 241  Sociology of Gender and Sexuality

One course from the list below:
AMST 200  Perspectives on America
ARHI 339  Gender and Sexuality in Art
ARHI 342  Art and Politics in Latin America
ARHI 344  Race and Ethnicity in US-American Art
HIST 217  20th Century Europe
HIST 221  Latin America
HIST 226  Era of the American Revolution
HIST 230  African American History
HIST 233  Civil War and Reconstruction
HIST 242  Vietnam War at Home and Abroad
HIST 243  Asia in Global Context
HIST 244  The Pacific World
HIST 246  Africa and the World
HIST 324  Early American Law and Society
HIST 329  Empires and Resistance
HIST 338  Rights, Reform, and Protest
HIST 342  Women and Reform
PHIL 125  Introduction to Political Philosophy
PHIL 334  Contemporary Political Philosophy

One course from the list below:
ANTH 210  Talking Trash
ANTH 230  Anthropology of Latin America
ANTH 232  Environmental Anthropology
ANTH 311  Power and Prestige
CJCR 201  Policing and Society
CJCR 203  Correctional Policy
CJCR 210  Introduction to the Administration of Justice
CJCR 211  Ethics in Criminal Justice
CJCR 213  Justice in Popular Culture and Media
CJCR 223  Human Trafficking
CJCR 334  Race, Class, Gender, and Crime
PSCI 231  Law in America
PSCI 242  Human Rights
PSCI 245  Latin American Politics
PSCI 260  Globalization and Sustainable Development
PSCI 331  Civil Rights and Liberties
PSCI 341  Women and Law
PSCI 342  Civil Conflict

One course from the list below:
ANTH 334  Economic Anthropology
BUS 200  Business of Energy
BUS 300  BUS 300
BUS 320  Social Entrepreneurship
ECON 110  Principles of Macroeconoics
ECON 224  Urban Economics
ECON 225  Environmental and Resource Economics
ECON 226  American Economic History
ECON 332  Government and the Economy
ECON 335  Labor Economics
ECON 337  Public Economics
ECON 343  International Trade
ENTR 320  Social Entrepreneurship
HIST 200  Energy, Security, and Global Competition

Any two additional elective courses from those listed above or below:
ARCH 210  Talking Trash
ARCH 311  Power and Prestige
BIO 108  Public Health
CMS 324  Public Relations
CMS 349  Political Communication
CEAE 220  Civic Engagement
EDUC 233  Teaching Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Learners in the Dominican Republic
ENGL 218  Classical and Modern Rhetoric
ENGL 229  African American Literature
ENV 215  Introduction to Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
ENV 220  Environmental Biology
FILM 212  Multicultural America on Screen
FILM 300  Film and Social Change
FVA 330  Documentary Filmmaking
GSWS 200  Gendered Perspectives
SOC 222  Introduction to Human Services
SOC 240  Sociology of Race and Ethnicity
SOC 241  Sociology of Gender and Sexuality
SOC 305  Sociology of Law
SOC 334  American Immigration