Social Justice Graduate Certificate
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
- Students must complete a minimum of 12 credit hours of approved courses.
- Students must complete all courses at the graduate level (5000-level or above).
- 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.
- Students must complete all credits applied to the certificate with CU Denver faculty.
| Code | Title | Hours |
|---|---|---|
| Complete 12 graduate level credit hours from the following courses: 1 | 12 | |
| Human Genetics: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues | ||
| Social Justice Liberation: A Rehearsal for the Revolution | ||
| Legal And Policy Foundations For Latin@ Students | ||
| (Re)Claiming Dominant Narratives: History, Education, & Activism in Latinx | ||
| Communication, Prisons, and Social Justice | ||
| Communication, Globalization and Social Justice | ||
| Law & Society | ||
| Interpersonal Violence | ||
| Wrongful Convictions | ||
| Qualitative Methods for Criminal Justice | ||
| Drugs, Alcohol, and Crime | ||
| Criminal Justice Ethics | ||
| Gender and Crime | ||
| Race, Crime, and Justice | ||
| White Collar Crime | ||
| Offenders With Mental Health Disorders | ||
| Environmental Crime and Justice | ||
| Educators as Social Change Agents | ||
| Food Justice in City & Schools | ||
| Problematizing Whiteness: Educating for Racial Justice | ||
| Social Foundations and Cultural Diversity in Urban Education | ||
| Power and Privilege: The Social Construction of Difference | ||
| Leadership for Equity/Social Justice | ||
| Human Genetics: Legal, Ethical and Social Issues | ||
| Family and Cultural Diversity | ||
| Family Systems Social Justice | ||
| Family Diversity and Social Justice | ||
| Crime, Policing, and Justice in American History | ||
| Women & Gender in US History | ||
| Mexico and the United States: People and Politics on the Border | ||
| Medicine, Health Care, and Justice: Bioethics | ||
| First Amendment: Theory and Context | ||
| Law, Diversity and Community in United States History | ||
| Sex, Gender, and Visual Representation | ||
| Viewing Empire: The Art of Imperial and Colonial Propaganda | ||
| Social Justice in Planning | ||
| Ethics: A Formula for Success | ||
| Justice, Freedom, and Power: Social and Political Philosophy | ||
| Punishment and Social Justice | ||
| Feminist Philosophy | ||
| GIS in Political Science | ||
| Indigenous Politics | ||
| Human Rights: Theory and Practice | ||
| Gender, Development and Globalization | ||
| Social Justice And Globalization | ||
| Conflicts and Rights in International Law | ||
| The U.S. Constitution: Law and Politics | ||
| Labor Law and Collective Bargaining | ||
| Labor, Trade Unions and the Global Economy | ||
| International Women's Resistance | ||
| Strategies of Peacebuilding | ||
| Contemporary Issues in Civil Liberties | ||
| Nonprofits and Public Policy | ||
| Administrative Law | ||
| Crime, Justice, and the City | ||
| 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.