Social Justice Advocacy and Public Policy Minor
Turn your passion into policy for meaningful societal change. Learn how policy, political organizations and public entities impact marginalized communities and develop skills to lead social change.
Curriculum
Through interdisciplinary coursework, students learn how policy impacts marginalized communities and how civic, political and social arrangements can facilitate or prevent achievement of social change.
15 credit hours are required.
Required:
- PUBAFRS 2170 Ethics, Justice, and Public Service
- PUBAFRS 5120 Social Change Advocacy: Organization, Mobilization, and Activism
Choose one course:
- PUBAFRS 2110: Introduction to Public Affairs
- PUBAFRS 2120: Public Service and Civic Engagement
- PUBAFRS 2150: Nonprofit Organizing for Diversity and Justice
Choose one course:
- PUBAFRS 5240 Race and Public Policy in the United States
- PUBAFRS 5250 Poverty, Inequality, and Public Policy
- PUBAFRS 5595 Social Enterprise
- PUBAFRS 5890 U.S. Food Policy
- PUBAFRS 5895 Food Insecurity, and Food Assistance Programming and Policy in the U.S.
- PUBAFRS 5900 Food Systems Planning and the Economy
Choose one course:
- AFAMAST 2218 - Black Urban Experience
- AFAMAST 2275 - Blackness and the Politics of Sports
- AFAMAST 3083 - Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
- AFAMAST 3230 - Black Women: Culture and Politics
- AFAMAST 3260 - Global Black Cultural Movements
- AFAMAST 3440 - Theorizing Race
- AFAMAST 4326 - Topics in African Americans and Public Policy
- AFAMAST 4504 - Black Politics
- AFAMAST 4610 - African Americans and the Law
- AFAMAST 4921 - Intersections: Approaches to Race, Gender, Class, and Sexuality
- ANTHROP 2210 - Race, Ethnicity, Gender Diversity and Human Biology
- ANTHROP 3597.02 - Women, Culture, and Development
- ANTHROP 5602 - Women's Health in Global Perspective
- ANTHROP 5627 - Migrants and Refugees: The Anthropology of Mobility
- ANTHROP 5700 - Anthropology, Public Health, and Human Rights
- CRPLAN 2000 – Introduction to City and Regional Planning
- CRPLAN 3510 – Crime, Safety, and the Urban Environment
- CRPLAN 3300 – Planning for and With People
- CRPLAN 3500 - The Socially Just City
- CRPLAN 3510 – Crime, Safety, and the Urban Environment
- CRPLAN 3610 – Sex and the City
- CRPLAN 5997 – Planning in the Developing World
- CRPLAN 4597 - The Global Environment in Planning
- ENR 3470 - Religion and Environmental Values in America (also ENR 3470E)
- ENR 3530 - Women, Environment and Development
- ENR 5400 - Interventions to Promote Pro-environmental Behavior
- ENR 5480 - Local Peoples and International Conservation
- ESHESA 2577 Diversity and Social Justice in Leadership
- HISTORY 2752 - Social Reform Movements in U.S. History
- HISTORY 3083 - Civil Rights and Black Power Movements
- HISTORY 3352 - Marginal Groups in the Non-Western World
- INTSTDS 2580 - Feast or Famine: The Global Business of Food
- INTSTDS 2800 - Introduction to Peace Studies
- INTSTDS 3450 - Human Rights: An Introduction
- INTSTDS 4320 - Energy, the Environment, and the Economy
- INTSTDS 4532 - Food Security and Globalization
- INTSTDS 4597.01 - Food, Population, and the Environment
- SOCIOL 2202 Social Problems and Public Policy
- SOCIOL 2463 Social Inequality: Race, Class, and Gender
- SOCIOL 3306 Sociology of Poverty
- SOCIOL 3380 Racial and Ethnic Relations in America
- SOCIOL 3460 Environmental Justice
- SOCIOL 3463H Social Stratification: Race, Class, and Gender
- SOCIOL 4463 Food and Inequality in the United States
- SOCWORK 3503 - Social Work Practice with Diverse Populations
- SOCWORK 5030 – Global Social Work Perspectives on Poverty and Inequality
- POLITSC 3440 - Political Theories of Justice
- POLITSC 3460 - Global Justice
- WGSST 2325 - Health & Inequality
- WGSST 3200 - Breaking the Law: An Introduction to Gender Justice
- WGSST 3300.01S - Feminist Perspectives of Incarceration in the US
- WGSST 3302 - Gender, War & Peacebuilding
- WGSST 3370 - Sexualities & Citizenship
- WGSST 4189.01S - Reproductive Rights and Justice
- WGSST 4401 - Asian American Women: Race, Sex & Representations
- WGSST 4402 - Black Women: Representations, Politics & Power
- WGSST 4404 - Regulating Bodies: Global Sexual Economies
- WGSST 4405 - Race & Sexuality
- WGSST 4465 - Feminist Political Theory
- WGSST 4520 - Women of Color and Social Activism
- WGSST 4524 - Women’s Work? Sex, Race, Class & Labor
- WGSST 4525 - Feminist Critiques of Markets: Profiting from Inequality
- WGSST 4560 - Chicana Feminism: Crossing Borders with Mexican American and Chicana Feminisms
- WGSST 4921 - Intersections: New Approaches to Theorizing Difference
- WGSST 5450 - Global Human Trafficking: Realities & Representations
- WGSST 5642 - Women and Social Change in Latin America
Students may petition to use courses that are relevant. They should check with Glenn College advising as to the appropriateness of the courses.
Additional Program Detail
Declaring the Minor
- To add a minor at the Glenn College, contact the advising office.
- The minor coursework must be approved by the Glenn College. Once the minor program is filed in the college office, any changes to coursework must be submitted for approval.
- The minor program form must be filed by the time the graduation application is submitted to a college/school counselor.
Credit Hour Requirements and Transfers
Requirements:
- This program is not required for graduation.
- A minimum of 15 credit hours are required for completion.
- A minimum of six credit hours must be at the 3000 level or above.
Transfers:
- A student is permitted to count up to six total hours of transfer credit and/or credit by examination toward the minor.
Overlap
- Three credit hours may be overlapped between this minor and a major or another minor.
- G.E. overlap is permitted up to six total hours
Requirements for completion
Grade requirements for earning a minor:
- Minimum C- for a course to be listed on the minor.
- Minimum 2.00 cumulative point-hour ratio required for the minor.
- Coursework graded Pass/Non-Pass cannot count on the minor.
- No more than three credit hours of courses graded Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory may count toward the minor.
For More Information
Contact:
Glenn College Majors:
Contact your Advisor
Non Glenn College Majors:
Contact Steve Fink