Social Justice Courses

Fall 2021

Courses were selected by reviewing course description information and identifying those that either explicitly include social justice topic(s) and/or would likely address social justice in some way. Descriptions were reviewed using the BSU MRISJ definitions of social justice, which can be reviewed here for further information.

Course Prefix	Course No.	Course Name	Sections
AFAM	200	Introduction to African American Studies	1
AFAM/CRJU	399	Topics in African American Studies: Race and the Law	1
AMST	220	Introduction to American Studies	3
ANTH	100	Introduction to Cultural Anthropology	9
ANTH	115	Anthropology of Race, Class and Gender	2
ANTH	120	First Nations: Global Indigenous People	2
ANTH	204	Global Human Issues	2
ANTH	206	Native Cultures of North America	1
ANTH	208	The Lives of Women	1
ANTH	209	People and Cultures of Africa	1
ANTH	213	Latin American Peoples and Culture	2
ANTH	215	The Caribbean	2
ANTH	216	People and Cultures of the Middle East	2
ANTH	298	2nd Year Seminar: Sex, Gender, and Science	1
ANTH	298	2nd Year Seminar: Native Americans in Film	1
ANTH	299	2nd Year Seminar: Afro-Latin American Culture	1
ANTH	432	Issues in Global Health	1
ARTH	219	Pre-Columbian Art and Architecture	2
ARTS	298	2nd Year Seminar: Arts as Activism	2
CNGC	529	Multicultural Counseling	1
COMM	110	Forensics Practicum	1
COMM	229	Media and Cultural Theory	3
COMM	298	2nd Year Seminar: Era of Climate Crisis	1
COMM	300	Race, Class, and Gender in Media	3
COMM	365	Introduction to Intercultural Communication	1
COMM	493	Seminar: Communication and Culture	1
CRJU	290	Mental Health and the Criminal Justice System	1
CRJU	331	Police, Community, and Society	3
CRJU	347	Restorative and Transformative Justice	3
CRJU	358	Race, Class, Crime and Justice	2
CRJU	385	Victimology	3
CRJU	388	Hate Crime	2
CRJU	547	Restorative Justice	1
AFAM/CRJU	399	Topics in African American Studies: Race and the Law	1
DANC	298	Honors: 2nd Year Seminar: Hypersexuality Being and Not Being	1
EDHM	336	Foundations in Sheltered English Immersion: The Education and Assessment of Diverse Populations	3
EDLE	512	Diversity and Social Justice in Higher Education	1
EDMC	532	Teacher as Leaders: Issues - Advocacy	1
ELED	199	Honors: 1st Year Seminar: DeconRacis,WrldSchl	1
ENGL	233	Introduction to the African American Novel	2
ENGL	253	Non-Western Literature	3
ENGL	315	Ethnic American Literature	1
ENGL	318	African American Literature II	1
ENGL	326	Native American Writing/Rhetoric	1
ENGL	344	Young Adult Literature	1
ENGL	405	Research Methods: Colonialism/Power/Culture	1
GEOG	151	Human Geography	8
GEOG	298	2nd Year Seminar: Sustainable Urban Food	1
GEOG	353	Urban Geography	1
HEAL	205	Foundations of Public Health	1
HEAL	315	School and Community Health	2
HEAL	360	Health Care in the U.S.	1
HEAL	450	Health Promotion Strategies	1
INTD	365	Global Social Justice Program	1
LANG	298	Honors: 2nd Year Seminar: Racial Bodies & Differ	1
LASP	401	Romantic Revolutionaries	1
LIBR	299	Teens and Mental Illness	1
LTAC	201	Introduction to Latin American and Caribbean Studies	1
LTAC	299	Honors: 2nd Year Seminar: Forging Latin American Identity Through Art and Art History	1
MUSC	199	1st Year Seminar: Music and Social Issues	1
PHED	319	Social Issues in Physical Education and Recreation	1
PHIL	152	Contemporary Moral Problems	1
PHIL	153	Ethics	3
PHYS	298	2nd Year Seminar: Women in Science	1
POLI	277	American Government: State and Local	1
POLI	279	Introduction to Public Administration	2
POLI	281	Introduction to Nonprofit Organizations	1
POLI	393	Politics of Climate Change	1
POLI	400	Education and Labor Movement	1
POLI	475	Seminar: Fake News & Politics	1
PSYC	230	Cultural Psychology	11
PSYC	462	The Psychology of Women	1
READ	553	Issues in Literacy Education for Social Justice	1
READ	570	Child Lit/Diverse Classroom	1
SCWK	250	Introduction to Social Welfare	2
SCWK	270	Social Work Issues of Diversity and Oppression	3
SCWK	286	Honors Colloquium Seminar on Racial Justice	1
SCWK	320	Human Behavior and the Social Environment I	3
SCWK	350	Social Welfare Policy	3
SCWK	500	Social Policy I: Social Welfare Policy	5
SCWK	502	Dynamics of Diversity and Oppression	10
SCWK	510	Human Behavior in the Social Environment I	6
SCWK	530	Practice I: Generalist Social Work	8
SCWK	572	Social Policy III: Mental and Physical Health Care Policy	5
SOCI	102	Introduction to Sociology	6
SOCI	103	Social Problems	3
SOCI	104	Global Social Problems	4
SOCI	204	Gender, Sexuality, and Society	2
SOCI	207	Social Inequality	1
SOCI	211	Homelessness in U.S. Society	1
SOCI	216	Latin American Societies	1
SOCI	217	East Asian Societies: China and Japan	1
SOCI	222	African World Perspectives	1
SOCI	255	Juvenile Delinquency	1
SOCI	298	2nd Year Seminar: Race Matters	2
SOCI	298	2nd Year Seminar: Comic Book Women: Gender, Race, and Power	2
SOCI	299	2nd Year Seminar: #MeToo: Sexual Violence	1
SOCI	299	2nd Year Seminar: #MeToo: Time's Up	1
SOCI	305	Sociology of Education	1
SOCI	391	Seminar: Social Data Analysis	2
SPED	203	Cultural Diversity Issues in School and Society	6
TESL	203	Cultural Issues in Teaching English as a Second/Foreign Language	1
WGSS	240	Critical Perspectives in Women's and Gender Studies	1

Per Infobear as of April 7, 2021, last updated April 16, 2021

FACULTY: If you are teaching a course in Fall 2021 that you’d like to submit for consideration for this list, or you’d like to suggest an edit to this list, please let us know via a brief survey, or email us at mrisj@bridgew.edu.

Social Justice Courses

Fall 2021

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