Student ID:__________________________ Student Name:_______________________ Adviser Name:_______________________ Catalog: 2013-2014 Catalog Program: Education and Social Justice Minor Minimum Credits Required:__________________

Education and Social Justice Minor

Combined minor offered by Woodring College of Education, Fairhaven College of Interdisciplinary Studies and American Cultural Studies Program

31-32 Credits

Introduction/What is the Study of Education and Social Justice?

The Education and Social Justice Minor helps prepare youth workers, professional educators, counselors, and community organizers to understand and effectively use social justice frameworks, critical reflection and praxis to address equity issues in formal and informal educational settings, nonprofit, public service, and private organizations.

Key concepts that thread through the program include: critical and decolonizing theories and pedagogies, studies of the social and political context of education in its broadest sense, the construction of individual and collective identities, systems and mechanisms of social and cultural reproduction, critical consciousness, and resources, forms of resistance and processes of empowerment.

Why Consider an Education and Social Justice Minor? 

 

 Contact Information

 

 Sample Careers

 

 Major/Career Resources

http://www.wwu.edu/careers/students_choosingamajor.shtml

How to Declare (Admission and Declaration Process):

Students may declare the minor through Fairhaven College (Contact: Marie Eaton), Woodring College of Education (Contact: Rosalie Romano, Victor Nolet, Trula Nicholas or Bruce Larson) or American Cultural Studies (Contact: Lawrence Estrada).

Grade Requirements

A grade of S or C- or better is required for this minor.

Program Requirements

Core (12 Credits)

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
 EDUC 411 - Education and Social Justice
 FAIR 314E - Critical Pedagogy

❑ One of the following:

    AMST 301 - Comparative Cultural Studies
    FAIR 366E - Comparative Cultural Studies

Electives (At least 16 Credits)

Choose at least 1 course from each category under advisement

Social/Political Context

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
ANTH 484 - Intercultural Education
FAIR 319B - Current Issues in Law (topic approved by advisor)
FAIR 336B - Topics in Social Issues (topic approved by advisor, such as Education and Social Order)
SOC 361 - Sociology of Education

One course from:

ELED 310 - Education, Culture, and Equity
SEC 310 - Education, Culture, and Equity
SPED 310 - Education, Culture, and Equity

Equity Pedagogy

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
FAIR 311C - Alternatives in Education
FAIR 336B - Topics in Social Issues

    One from:

EDUC 412 - Seminar in Educational Equity
AMST 412 - Seminar in Educational Equity

    One from:

EDUC 413 - Bridge Barriers w/Migrants
AMST 413 - Bridging Barriers with Migrant Youth

    One from:

ELED 464 - Multicultural Education for Teachers
AMST 464 - Multicultural Ed for Teachers

Children & Youth in Society

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
FAIR 322M - Memoirs and Memory: Childhood in America
FAIR 336B - Topics in Social Issues (topic approved by advisor)
FAIR 448T - Risk and Resilience in Adolescent Girls: Development, Culture and Identity
HSP 315 - Human Development and Human Services
PSY 332 - Adolescent Development
SOC 380 - Sociology of Youth

    One from:

ECE 435 - Child Abuse and Neglect
ELED 435 - Child Abuse and Neglect

Identity in Culture

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed
AMST 314 - Contemporary Latino/A Issues
AMST 316 - Contemporary African American Issues
ANTH 481 - Childhood and Culture
FAIR 312E - Transgender Identities and Histories
FAIR 313E - Queer Issues in Education
FAIR 336B - Topics in Social Issues (topic approved by advisor)
FAIR 374B - The Cultural Creation of Identity
FAIR 436B - Advanced Topics in Social Issues (topic approved by advisor)
HSP 455 - Diversity & Social Justice Dynamics
PSY 119 - Psychology of Gender
SAA 375 - Diversity in Higher Education and Student Affairs
SOC 369 - Sociology of Race and Ethnicity

One from:

AMST 315 - Contemporary American Indian Issues
FAIR 399B - Contemporary American Indian Issues

One course from:

ELED 310 - Education, Culture, and Equity
SEC 310 - Education, Culture, and Equity
SPED 310 - Education, Culture, and Equity

Praxis/Capstone (at least 4 credits)

Course NameTerm TakenGradeGen Ed

EDUC 400 - Independent Applied Experience (by advisement)

EDUC 414 - Topics in Social Justice Education

FAIR 400 - Independent Applied Experience (by advisement)

FAIR 414D - Special Topics in Social Justice Education

University Graduation Requirements

General University Requirements (GURS) 
Writing Proficiency Requirement (WP)
180 Minimum Total Credits
60 Minimum Upper Division Credits
Residency Requirement
Minimum Grade Requirements
Final Quarter Requirement

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