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Minor in Critical Perspectives on Social Justice and the Common Good

The Minor in Critical Perspectives on Social Justice and the Common Good is an interdisciplinary course of study using the collected insights of various academic disciplines designed to prepare students to be responsible critics of contemporary societies and effective agents for positive social transformation. Students will reflect on the causes and structures of injustice and approaches to social change at interpersonal, communal, national and global levels. As a central concept in Catholic thought on social justice, the Minor will explore the role of the common good in the religious, ethical, philosophical and social science traditions. As part of their course of study, students will be challenged to critically examine historical and contemporary misappropriation and abuse of the constructs of social justice and common good. Through a community service-learning pedagogy, offered in a number of courses, this minor creatively engages faculty, students, and community partners in local and international responses to inequality and marginalization. Cycles of exclusion (e.g., marginalization associated with disability, age, gender, poverty, sexuality, racism, violence, colonialism, post-colonialism, class, speciesism and the environment), urban justice, globalization, and ecojustice are the areas of concentration for empirical, social analyses of social injustice. From these areas of concentration and issues of justice students gain a solid intellectual and ethical grasp of the understandings of the common good.
 
The Minor, consisting of 21 credit units of courses, may be completed in conjunction with any Three-Year, Four-Year, or Honours degree.

Requirements(21 credit units)

• INTS 200.6 Cultivating Humanity
• INTS 400.3 Critical Perspectives on Social Justice and the Common Good

The remaining 12 credit units required to complete the minor may be taken from the list that follows. At least 3 credit units must be at the 300- or 400-level and courses must be taken from at least two different departments. In addition, of the 12 credit units required to complete the minor at least 3 credit units must be taken from the Humanities and 3 credit units must be taken from the Social Sciences.

Humanities

• CTST 200.3
• PHIL 226.3
• PHIL 231.3
• PHIL 234.3
• PHIL 262.3
• PHIL 337.3
• RLST 220.3
• RLST 228.3
• RLST 321.3

Social Sciences

• ANTH 231.3
• ANTH 310.3
• ANTH 326.3
• ANTH 330.3
• ECON 221.3
• ECON 223.3
• ECON 270.3
• ECON 272.3
• ECON 277.3
• POLS 237.3
• POLS 246.3
• POLS 250.3
• POLS 251.3
• POLS 260.6
• POLS 336.3
• POLS 349.3
• POLS 370.3
• POLS 466.3
• PSY 231.3
• PSY 261.3
• PSY 361.3
• SOC 214.3
• SOC 220.6
• SOC 242.3
• SOC 260.3
• SOC 261.3
• SOC 296.3
• SOC 304.3
• SOC 305.3
• SOC 306.3
• SOC 328.3
• SOC 360.3
• SOC 422.3

In every casual conversation, with every student, there may be a chance to throw in an illuminating word, to sow an inspirational thought.” — Fr. Henry Carr, CSB STM President, 1942 - 1949