Social Justice Minor
This program is available at the following location:
- Corvallis
The Social Justice minor overseen by the School of Language, Culture, and Society in the College of Liberal Arts recognizes the understanding of social justice as a curricular intervention in traditional learning models. It highlights the classroom as site for both critical inquiry and transformative social change through experiential learning and in substantive partnership with community. Social justice education directly engages movements for social change by employing intersectional frameworks of understanding that identify not just one system of oppression but how multiple systems of oppression interlock in the shaping of lived experiences. Courses in the social justice minor embody the forms of resistance to systems of oppression in their activism, pedagogy, curricula, assignments, and evaluations.
Minor Code: 271
Upon successful completion of the program, students will meet the following learning outcomes:
- Identify and explain how communities are marginalized and their struggles for transformative social change.
- Apply an equity-lens for social justice work throughout their academic career.
- Compare social justice movements and identify varied tactics and strategies deployed by two or more movements.
| Code | Title | Credits |
|---|---|---|
| Required Core | ||
| ES 270 | MAKING ALLIANCES AND SOLIDARITIES | 4 |
| ES 460 | ETHNICITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | 4 |
| WGSS 319 | *FEMINIST DECOLONIZING METHODOLOGIES: SOCIAL JUSTICE RESEARCH | 3 |
| Electives | ||
| Select 16 credits from any of the following three categories: 1 | 16 | |
| Collective Movements | ||
| *LATINO/A IDENTITIES AND ACTIVISM | ||
| *SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES II | ||
| *ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICAN ACTIVISM AND EMPOWERMENT | ||
| *NATIVE AMERICAN ASSIMILATION AND ACTIVISM | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO PACIFIC ISLANDS STUDIES | ||
| *ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM | ||
| *FARMWORKER JUSTICE MOVEMENTS | ||
| WOMEN IN UNITED STATES HISTORY | ||
| *THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT IN THE MODERN U.S. | ||
| *LESBIAN AND GAY MOVEMENTS IN MODERN AMERICA | ||
| PROTESTS AND SOCIAL CHANGE | ||
| Intersectional Theory and Practice | ||
| *FOOD JUSTICE | ||
| REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: A SERVICE LEARNING COURSE | ||
| CONTEMPORARY NATIVE ISSUES | ||
| *ARTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO DISABILITY STUDIES | ||
| BUDDHISM, NON-VIOLENCE, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | ||
| *SERVING LGBTQ+ COMMUNITIES | ||
| *TRANSGENDER POLITICS | ||
| WOMEN OF COLOR FEMINISMS | ||
| *INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LANGUAGE AND CULTURE STUDIES | ||
| Systems of Oppression and Resistance | ||
| RACISM AND THE PRISON INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX | ||
| FOOD AND ETHNIC IDENTITY: DECOLONIZING OUR FOOD AND BODY | ||
| +*SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH | ||
| RACISM AND HEALTH EQUITY | ||
| *FAMILIES AND POVERTY | ||
| *THE HISTORY OF HUMAN RIGHTS IN THE MODERN WORLD | ||
| *SOCIAL INEQUALITY | ||
| *SYSTEMS OF OPPRESSION IN WOMEN'S LIVES | ||
| *GENDER AND TRANSNATIONAL ACTIVISMS | ||
| RACE, GENDER, AND HEALTH JUSTICE | ||
| *LANGUAGE, RACE AND RACISM IN THE US: AN INTRODUCTION | ||
| Total Credits | 27 | |
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Baccalaureate Core Course (BCC)
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Writing Intensive Course (WIC)
- +
Core Education course. Applies only to students admitted to an OSU undergraduate degree from Summer 2025 onwards
- 1
A minimum of 5 credits must be upper-division
Minor Code: 271