AP/HREQ 3890 6.00
Social Justice: Theory and Practice
This course uses a critical human rights approach to understand the emergence of social justice theories and processes of equity related to identity, access, social policy, and violence. The course also explores emerging trends in social justice movements including spatial justice, collaborative struggle, and collective rights.
The course critically examines ideas of social justice, its various meanings over place and time, and the influence of these ideas on both policy and protest. The course reviews various themes of social justice, including decolonization, feminism, reproductive justice, queer theory, critical race theory, environmental justice, critical disability studies, and others. The course uses these ideas to reflect on the practice of social justice both in the past and in the present. The course investigates the application of justice but also challenges to it, including social movement organizations and public protests. Using an intersectional framework, the course discovers the connections between various claims of social justice.
Prerequisite: 24 credits