Soc Justice&Human Rights Pract.

Catalog description

This specialization course directs the students focus in social justice and human rights practice. This course provides and in-depth exploration of social justice and human rights issues and movements as relates to the core social constructs that sustain power in America, race, class, gender, and gender identity. Through the understanding and application of relevant critical theories, students will study the manner in which historic and contemporary issues of oppression, violence, and exclusion based on race, class, gender, and gender identity have impacted the quest for rights, justice, and equity within these communities.