Social Justice, B.A.

Minimum number of credits required to graduate:  124

Minimum cumulative GPA required for the major:  2.5

Minimum number of credits to complete the major:  36

School: School of Arts and Sciences

Department of Humanities  

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The Social Justice major provides students with the opportunity to turn their passion for social change, human rights, and a more just world into a fulfilling career. Students will gain extensive theoretical, analytical, and experiential knowledge in the field. This interdisciplinary program has been designed to prepare students for the demands of a world in which our awareness of injustice and our responsibility to address social issues has grown nationally and internationally. It combines a strong understanding of ideas of social justice with  practical application. Given that social justice work connects with different fields, skills, and knowledge areas, students take courses across different departments and programs. Students also complete a required internship in a community-based organization or non-governmental organization. Our majors have done internships relating to law, food security, education, accessibility, a wide range of community-based nonprofit organizations and programs.

Students can tailor their degree to their interests and will develop a concentration with their advisor, choosing from a range of subject areas to concentrate on such as global justice and human rights, law and justice, immigration justice, health justice, and food justice, to name a few.

Because of its interdisciplinary focus, the major in Social Justice prepares students for rewarding work in a variety of fields. Career opportunities include employment in law, policy, government agencies, non-governmental organizations, education, research institutes, consulting firms, corporations, social work, media, community-based organizations, human rights organizations, and more.