Social Justice

Catalog description

This course will examine the multi-layered processes that create, perpetuate and challenge stratification, inequalities and multiple forms of violence within and across societies. A key intent is to examine conceptions of social justice that underpin efforts to address and redress disproportionalities and disparities resulting from contemporary and historical relations of domination and subjugation. The focus of the course moves between the global context and that of the United States, whereby students will analyze their own location within power and wealth structures. A special feature of this course is its emphasis on the interconnectedness of global, regional, national and local realities, as they affect the lives of people in everyday domains. Open only to juniors and seniors currently matriculated in HDEV. Offered: fall and spring.