Introduction

The Social Justice Program works to educate students both in the classroom and beyond, connecting our campus to the Front Range community through internships, collaborative research with local partners, and by hosting speakers, trainings, and events that promote transformative dialogue and intellectual growth. We create learning opportunities that emphasize an integrated understanding the social, political, economic, and cultural dimensions of the major challenges facing humanity in the new millennium.  By cultivating engaged and informed citizens, we seek to create future leaders who will have the skills and knowledge necessary to effect meaningful change.

Program Delivery

• This is a hybrid program, with courses on-campus and online.

Admissions and Declaring this Certificate 

Students may be enrolled as a CU Denver graduate student in any discipline, or as a CU Denver non-degree seeking graduate student with a bachelor’s degree. 

International students must submit TOEFL scores or otherwise satisfy the University’s English Language Proficiency requirement.

These program requirements are subject to periodic revision by the academic department, and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences reserves the right to make exceptions and substitutions as judged necessary in individual cases. Therefore, the College strongly urges students to consult regularly with their Social Justice faculty advisor to confirm the best plans of study before finalizing them.

For more information about the Social Justice Graduate Certificate, please email the Dr. Margaret Woodhull: Margaret.Woodhull@ucdenver.edu  

Graduate Education Policies and Procedures apply to this program.

Certificate Requirements

1. Students must complete a minimum of 12 credit hours of approved courses.
2. Students must complete all courses at the graduate level (5000-level or above).
3. Students must earn a minimum grade of B- (2.7) in all courses applied to the certificate and must achieve a minimum cumulative certificate GPA of 3.0. Courses taken using P+/P/F or S/U grading cannot apply to certificate requirements.
4. Students must complete all credits applied to the certificate with CU Denver faculty.

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Complete 12 graduate level credit hours from the following courses: 1		12
ANTH 6041	Human Genetics: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues
CLDE 5040/7040	Social Justice Liberation: A Rehearsal for the Revolution
CLDE 7220	Legal And Policy Foundations For Latin@ Students
CLDE 7320	(Re)Claiming Dominant Narratives: History, Education, & Activism in Latinx
COMM 5040	Communication, Prisons, and Social Justice
COMM 6400	Communication, Globalization and Social Justice
CRJU 5005	Law & Society
CRJU 5150	Interpersonal Violence
CRJU 5200	Wrongful Convictions
CRJU 5325	Qualitative Methods for Criminal Justice
CRJU 5430	Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime
CRJU 5552	Criminal Justice Ethics
CRJU 5553	Gender and Crime
CRJU 5572	Race, Crime, and Justice
CRJU 5574	White Collar Crime
CRJU 5575	Offenders With Mental Health Disorders
CRJU 5710	Environmental Crime and Justice
ECED 5091	Educators as Social Change Agents
EDFN 5000	Food Justice in City & Schools
EDFN 5001	Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice
EDFN 5010	Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in Urban Education
EDFN 7410	Power and Privilege: The Social Construction of Difference
EDUC 5652	Leadership for Equity/Social Justice
HBSC 7320/6320/ANTH 6041	Human Genetics: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues
HDFR 5010	Family and Cultural Diversity
HDFR 5260	Family Systems Social Justice
HDFR 7260	Family Diversity and Social Justice
HIST 5308	Crime, Policing, and Justice in American History
HIST/WGST 5343	Women & Gender in US History
HIST 5412	Mexico and the United States: People and Politics on the Border
HUMN/PHIL/SSCI 5242	Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics
HUMN/SSCI 5325	First Amendment: Theory and Context
HUMN/SSCI 5540	Law, Diversity and Community in United States History
HUMN/WGST 5720	Sex, Gender, and Visual Representation
HUMN/SSCI 5770	Viewing Empire: The Art of Imperial and Colonial Propaganda
LDAR 6637	Social Justice in Planning
MGMT 6420/ISMG 6885	Ethics: A Formula for Success
PHIL 5200	Justice, Freedom, and Power: Social and Political Philosophy
PHIL 5450	Punishment and Social Justice
PHIL/WGST 5500	Feminist Philosophy
PSCI 5011	GIS in Political Science
PSCI 5145	Indigenous Politics
PSCI 5217	Human Rights: Theory and Practice
PSCI 5245/WGST 5248	Gender, Development and Globalization
PSCI 5265	Social Justice And Globalization
PSCI 5276	Conflicts and Rights in International Law
PSCI 5477	The U.S. Constitution: Law and Politics
PSCI 5548	Labor Law and Collective Bargaining
PSCI 5550	Labor, Trade Unions and the Global Economy
PSCI/WGST 5555	International Women's Resistance
PSCI 5808	Strategies of Peacebuilding
PSCI 5837	Contemporary Issues in Civil Liberties
PUAD 5120	Nonprofits and Public Policy
PUAD 5410	Administrative Law
SOCY 5590	Crime, Justice, and the City
SJUS 5050	Special Topics: Social Justice
Total Hours		12

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The course list is representative of the pre-approved coursework for this certificate. Students may complete other courses with permission from the certificate advisor.

To learn more about the Student Learning Outcomes for this program, please visit our website.