SJ&HR: Educ,Pub Serv,CJ, Sowk.

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 institutions that sustain social order, power, and conformity in America, education, politics and government, criminal justice systems, and institutions the guide the social welfare of the public. Through the understanding and application of relevant critical theories in education, public service and politics, criminology/sociology, and social work, students will study the manner in which historic and contemporary issues of oppression, violence, and exclusion based in various institutions have impacted the quest for rights, justice, and equity within these spaces.