Global Studies & Social Justice

Global Studies & Social Justice Minor

The purpose of the Global Studies & Social Justice minor is to provide students with broad contexts for: thinking through difference and diversity, facing challenging engagements with multicultural and intercultural dynamics of power, and also increasing personal awareness of how our own selves emerge and are shaped by global forces and processes. The goals of this minor are to increasingly globalize student perspectives, engage with others across many types of boundaries as well as learning to be advocates for a more socially just society.

Global Studies & Social Justice minors must complete a total of 18 hours in the minor. No more than six hours taken from the same discipline will count toward the minor to include:

1. IS 205 – Introduction to Global Justice (3 credit hours)
2. Foreign Language (6 credit hours)
3. Elective GS courses (9 credit hours – 6 credit hours must be upper division. Only 3 credit hours may overlap with the student’s major). 6 credit hours must be upper division. Only 3 credit hours may overlap with the student’s major.

GS Elective Courses: 

• BI 215 – Humans & the Environment (3)
• CO 253 – Gendered Media (3) or
• WS 253 – Gendered Media (3)
• ED 287 – Multicultural Foundations of Education (3)
• EN 275 – Gender & Literature (3) or
• WS 275 – Gender & Literature (3)
• EN 278 – Global Literary Perspectives (3) or
• WS 278 – Global Literary Perspectives (3)
• GG 101 – World Geography (3)
• HI 201 – Ancient History & Culture (3)
• HI 202 – Modern History & Culture (3)
• HI 372 – The Great War (3)
• IS 201 – Intercultural Communication (3)
• IS 311 – Peace Studies (3)
• IS 314 – Environmental Issues (3)
• IS 331 – Women & Science (3) or
• WS 331 – Women & Science (3)
• IS 335 – Plagues (3)
• IS 356 – Global Health Concerns (3)
• IS 358 – Violence (3) or
• PL 358 – Violence (3)
• IS 360 – Human Rights & Social Justice (3) or
• PL 360 – Human Rights & Social Justice (3)
• IS 366 – Food & Culture (3)
• IS 369 – Reasoning, History, & Social Implications of Science (3)
• IS 372 – Being Together: A Global Context (3) or
• PL 372 – Being Together: A Global Context (3) or
• WS 372 – Being Together: A Global Context (3)
• IS 375 – Theories & Literatures of Suffering (3)
• MK 411 – International Marketing (3)
• MU 121 – Music: Fingerprints of Culture (3)
• RS 221 – Philosophy of Religion (3) 
• PL 238 – Power & Resistance (3)
• RS 117 – World Religions (3)