Social Justice, Minor

The undergraduate minor in social justice requires a minimum of 15 s.h. of coursework, including at least 12 s.h. completed at the University of Iowa. Students must take SJUS:1001/GWSS:1003 Introduction to Social Justice and 12 s.h. in courses numbered 2000 or above. They may count GWSS:1002 Diversity and Power in the U.S. toward the 12 s.h. requirement. Students must maintain a cumulative grade-point average of at least 2.00 in all courses for the minor and in all UI courses for the minor. Coursework in the minor may not be taken pass/nonpass.

Students may count a maximum of 3 s.h. from another University of Iowa major, minor, or certificate toward the social justice minor.

The minor in social justice requires the following coursework.

Requirements Hours
Foundation Courses 6
Human Rights, Diversity, Activism Course 3
Social Justice Movements: Politics, History, Culture, Art Course 3
Elective 3

Foundation Courses

Course # Title Hours
This course:
SJUS:1001/GWSS:1003Introduction to Social Justice3
One of these:
SJUS:2000Theories of Social Justice3
SJUS:2250/GWSS:2250/HIST:2250The History of Social Justice Movements3
GWSS:3138/SJUS:3138Writing to Change the World3

Human Rights, Diversity, Activism

Course # Title Hours
One of these:
SJUS:1600/AMST:1600/LATS:1600War Stories3
SJUS:2050/GWSS:2050/HIST:2150/RELS:2250Jews, Judaism, and Social Justice3
SJUS:2135/RHET:2135Rhetorics of Diversity and Inclusion3
SJUS:2500/ENGL:2570/GWSS:2500Love, War, Activism: Stories About Women from Across the World3
SJUS:2571/ENGL:2571/GWSS:2571Visualizing Human Rights3
SJUS:3133/ANTH:3133/GWSS:3133Anthropology of Race3
SJUS:3475/GWSS:3475Working for Social Justice3
SJUS:3620/GWSS:3620Narrative Medicine, Social Justice, and the End of Life3
GWSS:1002Diversity and Power in the U.S.3
GWSS:2080/GHS:2080The Cultural Politics of HIV-AIDS3
GWSS:2800/AFAM:2800African American Women, Health, Hair, and Sexuality3
GWSS:3138/SJUS:3138Writing to Change the World (if not used as a Foundation course)3
GWSS:3157/HIST:3157Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights3
GWSS:3177/NURS:3739Women and Their Bodies in Health and Illness3
GWSS:3326/GHS:3327The Politics of Progress: NGOs, Development, and Sexuality3
GWSS:4140/ANTH:4140/CBH:4140/GHS:4140Feminist Activism and Global Health3
HIST:3108History of Human Rights3
HIST:3217/LAS:3217/LATS:3217Latina/o/x Immigration3
HIST:3232History of American Inequality3
HIST:3275/AFAM:3275History of Slavery in the U.S.A.3-4
HIST:4478Holocaust in History and Memory3
HRTS:2115/IS:2115Introduction to Human Rights3
HRTS:3906Global Crises and Human Rights3
HRTS:3910/IS:3910Human Rights Advocacy3
LATS:3104/LAS:3104/POLI:3104Immigration Politics3
NAIS:2292/AMST:2292/HIST:2292Native American Law and Policy: A History3
PHIL:3430Philosophy of Human Rights3
POLI:1900Introduction to the Politics of Race3
RELS:2955/IS:2955Human Rights and Islam3
RHET:3560/PBAF:3560/POLI:3560/SJUS:3560Public Policy and Persuasion3
SOC:2810Social Inequality3
SSW:3712/NURS:3712Human Sexuality, Diversity, and Society3
SSW:3847Discrimination, Oppression, and Diversity3

Social Justice Movements: Politics, History, Culture, Art

Course # Title Hours
One of these:
SJUS:2000Theories of Social Justice (if not used as a Foundation course)3
SJUS:2250/GWSS:2250/HIST:2250The History of Social Justice Movements (if not used as a Foundation course)3
SJUS:2294/HIST:2294/NAIS:2294Indigenous Art Activism and Social Justice3
SJUS:3250/ENGL:3170Literature and Social Justice3
SJUS:3459/GWSS:3459/HIST:3259Making Change, Making History: Iowa's Black Activists and Digital History3
SJUS:3550/GWSS:3550/RELS:3550Social Justice, Religion, and Spirituality: Faith and Belief Ignited3
GWSS:2650/GHS:2650Global Reproduction3
GWSS:2700Transgender People, Politics, and Cultures3
GWSS:3282/HIST:3282Women and Power in U.S. History Since the Civil War3
GWSS:3600Art, Feminist Practice, and Social Justice3
AFAM:3053/AMST:3053/HIST:3253The Civil Rights Movement3
COMM:2054Movements, Protest, Resistance3
ENGL:2463/AFAM:2463Topics in African American Literature (when topic is the Harlem Renaissance)3
ENGL:3515Topics in Postcolonial Studies (when topic is revolutionary Caribbean: Cuba and Puerto Rico)3
HIST:3232History of American Inequality3
HIST:4260The Sixties in America3
IS:3200Sustainable Development3
LATS:3550Topics in Latina/o/x Studies: History and Culture3

Elective

Courses used to satisfy the Foundation Courses requirement; the Human Rights, Diversity, Activism requirement; or the Social Justice Movements: Politics, History, Culture, Art requirement listed above may not be used to satisfy the elective requirement.

Course # Title Hours
One of these:
GWSS:2571/ENGL:2571/SJUS:2571Visualizing Human Rights3
GWSS:3005/SJUS:3005Practicum3
GWSS:3010/GHS:3015Transnational Sexualities3
GWSS:3100LGBTQ/Queer Studies3
GWSS:3118/ANTH:3118/COMM:3118Politics of Reproduction3
GWSS:3200Theories for Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies3
GWSS:3300/ANTH:3300Mothers and Motherhood3
GWSS:3326/GHS:3327The Politics of Progress: NGOs, Development, and Sexuality3
AFAM:3500/HIST:3160/RELS:3808Malcolm X, King, and Human Rights3
ANTH:2190/GWSS:2190/IS:2190Love Rules: Law and the Family Across Cultures3
ANTH:3103Environment and Culture3
ANTH:3110/GHS:3110/NAIS:3110Colonialism and Indigenous Health Equity3
ANTH:3151/ASP:3151/GHS:3151The Anthropology of the Beginnings and Ends of Life3
ANTH:3152/ASP:3152/GHS:3152Anthropology of Caregiving and Health3
ANTH:4140/CBH:4140/GHS:4140/GWSS:4140Feminist Activism and Global Health3
ASP:3150Psychology of Aging3
COMM:4131/IS:4131Globalization and Culture3
COMM:4169/GWSS:4169Feminist Rhetorics3
CPH:3400/GEOG:3210Health, Work, and the Environment3
CPH:3500/GHS:3500Global Public Health3
EES:3070Marine Ecosystems and Conservation3
ENGL:3444Literatures of the American Peoples3
ENGL:3555/AFAM:3555Topics in African Cinema (when topic is visualizing human rights)3
ENGL:3580Identity and Social Issues3
GEOG:3340Ecosystem Services3
GEOG:3400Iowa Environmental Policy in Practice3
GEOG:3760/GHS:3760Hazards and Society3
GEOG:4770/AFAM:4770/GHS:4770Environmental Justice3
GHS:3720Contemporary Issues in Global Health3
HIST:3108History of Human Rights3
HIST:3126History of Globalization3
HIST:3162/GHS:3162History of Global Health3
HIST:3217/LAS:3217/LATS:3217Latina/o/x Immigration3
HIST:3282/GWSS:3282Women and Power in U.S. History Since the Civil War3
HIST:4216/LAS:4216Mexican American History3
HIST:4260The Sixties in America3
HRTS:3910/IS:3910Human Rights Advocacy3
JMC:3150/CBH:3150/GHS:3150Media and Health3
LATS:3420/AMST:3420/POLI:3427/SJUS:3420Latinas/os/x and the Law3
LATS:4800/AMST:4800Latina/o/x Popular Culture3
NAIS:2292/AMST:2292/HIST:2292Native American Law and Policy: A History3
POLI:3104/LAS:3104/LATS:3104Immigration Politics3
POLI:3111American Public Policy3
POLI:3114Women and Politics in the United States3
POLI:3150Problems in American Politics3
POLI:3512International Conflict3
PSY:3560Psychology of Gender3
RELS:2955/IS:2955Human Rights and Islam3
RELS:3431/ASIA:3431/GWSS:3131Gender and Sexuality in East Asia3
RELS:3580/ANTH:3113/ASIA:3561/GHS:3113Religion and Healing3
RELS:3745/AFAM:3245Twentieth- and Twenty-first-Century African American Religion: Civil Rights to Black Lives Matter3
SOC:2830Race and Ethnicity3
SPAN:3230Modern Mexico3
SSW:3712/NURS:3712Human Sexuality, Diversity, and Society3
SSW:3796Family Violence3