2023-2024 Catalog [ARCHIVED]
Social Justice Studies for Transfer, AA-T
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Social Justice focuses on analyzing and challenging systems of oppression, seeking to understand both the social and historical forces that have perpetuated social inequality. Social Justice studies seeks to promote justice, cultural diversity, critical thought, democracy, and inclusiveness. The subject arena ranges from race & ethnicity, women & gender issues, lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender (LGBT) studies, social class issues, disability issues, and other related areas including the intersection of these areas of study, primarily in U.S. context, with relevant linkages to global systems of oppression. Courses offered in the curriculum may be taken to fulfill general education requirements in the social sciences; and they may be applied toward a major in Social Justice for the Associate of Arts in Social Justice for Transfer. In studying Social Justice, students develop an understanding of the cultural and social influences that interact in the world and that affect people’s lives. Thus those who are considering careers in such professions as law, business, education, architecture, medicine, social work, politics, public administration, or related areas will find that the Social Justice major provides a rich fund of knowledge directly concerning each of these fields.
Pursuant to SB1440, section 66756, to earn an AA-T in Social Justice Studies, students must:
- Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units of degree-applicable courses,
- Minimum overall grade point average of 2.0,
- Minimum grade of “C” (or “P”) for each course in the major, and
- Completion of IGETC and/or CSU GE-Breadth.
Program Student Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:
- Understand and apply key social justice concepts: cultural diversity, equity, justice, democracy, inclusion, and access.
- Communicate effectively via writing/and or oral presentations about various socio-cultural systems and historical processes that contribute to oppression (i.e.: social inequality, racism, sexism, classism, heterosexism, ageism, etc.)
- Understand and articulate the importance of change towards a just, equitable, and inclusive society
- Articulate the role of social research methods within social justice studies (an ability to compare and contrast methods of social research).
- Articulate the role of theory in social justice (an ability to compare and contrast theoretical orientations and apply social justice theories to areas of social reality).
- Understand how the science of social justice produces knowledge about the various systems of oppression in society, and how that impacts social interaction, and human behavior (an ability to describe and to apply the social justice framework to understanding systems of oppression in society, and how that impacts social interaction, and human behavior).
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