Subject: SJUS

Term: Spring 2016

SJUS 100: Introduction to Social Justice (100/2570)

TR 04:30-05:45 PM Jan 11-Apr 25

Frank, S; Hinze, S

Concepts of and quests for justice, and struggles against injustice, have shaped human understanding, relationships, and behavior for centuries. Individuals operate within community contexts created through interactions and relationships structured by sociability, belonging, and responsibility. Probing broad questions, this signature core course will encourage students to think critically and expansively about the social world and the conditions of humanity. The course will provide a foundational exploration of social justice concepts, issues, and remedies, thereby developing the necessary analytical tools and information to assess inequality and injustice and address historical and contemporary issues. Following an interdisciplinary, case-study approach, featuring faculty from different schools and departments at CWRU, this course also will provide students with multiple frameworks for understanding the interconnections between what are often perceived as disparate and disconnected fields of study and inquiry. Three primary questions guide the course: What is social justice? Why does social justice matter? What can be done?

SJUS 200: Social Justice Engagement Seminar: Experiential, Community Based Learning (100/3419)

TR 01:15-02:30 PM Jan 11-Apr 25

Warner, C

First class is MANDATORY for instructions on subsequent class meeting dates, times and locations.

SJUS 350: Engineering for Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Project (100/11387)

TR 04:30-05:45 PM Jan 11-Apr 25

Lacks, D

This social justice course is a supplementary course to enhance a disciplinary capstone project course. During the capstone, students will work in teams on projects that develop engineering solutions to help the poor and marginalized members of society. The projects include interactions with the relevant communities, and address the social, political, economic and environmental constraints on the solutions in addition to the technical engineering aspects. This additional course addresses the root causes of social injustice and the contexts of the issues associated with these projects. These issues are covered in weekly readings, and discussed in blog posts and in a weekly meeting with course instructor. The course is open to students from all majors, subject to permission from course instructor. Students must be concurrently enrolled in their department's capstone course, and they must have permission from their department's capstone instructor to use the interdisciplinary project towards their department capstone course. Each student must satisfy the requirements of his/her home department's capstone course while working on the project with teammates from other departments.

SJUS 398: Social Justice Capstone Project (100/3420)

Williams, R

In this course, students will identify and develop a project that addresses a relevant justice issue. Students will apply knowledge from historical and theoretical justice frameworks, and emphasis is placed on critical analysis of the issue. Students will have the opportunity to engage with stakeholders in a community based immersion experience in local, national or international settings. This culmination course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to demonstrate foundational skills facilitating social change from diverse community, academic, and professional perspectives. Finally, students will work to select and perhaps implement remedies such as individual resistance, policy, advocacy and social action, and collective struggle to address the respective injustice.