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Social Activism

The requirements for a minor in social activism are 20 credits.

Required Courses

  • ACT 301 - Social Activism: Making Change Happen

Additional Requirements

At least 8 credits from the Central Courses listed below (perhaps up to 16 credit hours)

  • COM 313 - Persuasive Communication
  • ENG 165 - Global Literature and Environmental Justice
  • PHIL 115 - Seeking Justice in an Unjust World
  • REL 379 - Religion, Race, and Social Justice
  • REL 388 - Religion, Violence and Nonviolence
  • SOC 214 - Social Problems

Elective courses from the following (0-8 credits depending on the number of Central Courses taken):

  • COM 232 - Video Production
  • COM 324 - Gender and Communication
  • COM 403 - Strategic Communication and Public Relations
  • ENVR 339, PHIL 339 - Environmental Ethics
  • FL 201 - Faith and Leadership
  • FREN 317, WLC 317 - Race, Gender, and Power in the Francophone World
  • HIST 313 - Black American History
  • PHIL 337 - Philosophy of Feminism
  • PHIL 341 - Philosophy of Race
  • PSC 350, ENVR 350 - Environmental Policy and Politics
  • PSYC 383 - Psychology of Gender
  • REL 340 - The Ethics of Aid and Development
  • SOC 217 - Cultural Anthropology
  • SOC 328 - Class, Race and Ethnicity
  • SOC 339 - Urban Communities
  • SOC 356 - Social Change in Theory and Practice
  • SWK 150 - Social Work and Social Justice
  • SWK 350 - Comparative Cultural Encounter
  • Students will also need to engage in PEAKs (Pivotal Experience in Applied Knowledge) related to social activism and approved in advance by the Social Activism Committee.
  • No more than two courses from the same department can count toward the minor.
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