Title: Globalization, Social Justice and Human Rights
Abstract: This course focuses on the theories, issues, and debates related to promoting social justice and positive change. Students will analyze how current frameworks – including values, assumptions, and actions – maintain the economic, political, and cultural structures shaping our lives. They will also build competencies and skills to transform these structures toward a more just society. This course draws on literature in political science, sociology, and social movements to address sustained efforts to bring about social and political change. Through the use of social networking, This course focuses on the theories, issues, and debates related to promoting social justice and positive change. Through the use of the internet and social networking, students will be expected to regularly interact with students and faculty from partner universities around the world. Students will analyze how current frameworks – including values, assumptions, and actions – maintain the economic, political, and cultural structures shaping our lives. They will also build competencies and skills to transform these structures toward a more just society. The course draws on literature in political science, sociology, and social movements.
Social justice can be understood as a general process of creating sustainable communities of inclusion, diversity, and equity. At the most basic level, it recognizes that social justice projects can have global impacts even when they occur on the local level. Thus, we will investigate how decisions made locally may have global significance. We will look at how the decisions of the individual – such as in how and what they choose to wear, eat, and drive – can have global implications. As we move outward, we will see similar concerns about equity, fairness and justice at the national and international levels. We will consider such issues as war and peace, labor and immigration policies, food and health, access and success, technology and innovation, and pollution and economies all have social justice dimensions, and in this way will demonstrate the ways the world we live in is infinitely interconnected and delicate.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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