Plan Description
The graduate certificate in Social Justice Studies (SJS) targets full- or part-time graduate students who seek professional preparation commensurate with the relevant Transformative Standards for Social Justice, Peace, and Environmental Education codified by Andrzejewski, Baltodano, & Symcox in 2009.
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Plan Admission Requirements
Application deadlines
Applications available on the UNLV Graduate College website.
- Qualified students must apply for admission to the Graduate College via the online application.
- Applicants must complete and submit a résumé / vita
- Applicants must complete and submit a 250-750 word personal statement detailing their interest in the SJS certificate.
All applicants must review and follow the Graduate College Admission and Registration Requirements.
Students are accepted into a certificate program as described in the Graduate Catalog. The faculty and corresponding sub-disciplines and sub-plans within the described programs are subject to change at any time.
Plan Requirements
Total Credits Required: 18
Course Requirements
Required Courses – Credits: 3
CIG 774 - Social Justice Education
Required Electives – Credits: 6
Sociology Requirement (choose one of the following):
SOC 741 - Graduate Seminar in Social Stratification
SOC 755 - Social Movements and Social Change
SOC 770 - Racial and Ethnic Relations
SOC 776 - Seminar in Political Sociology
Gender and Sexuality Studies Requirement (choose one of the following):
WMST 673 - Chicana Feminism and Experience
WMST 676 - Feminism and Activism
WMST 677 - Critical Race Feminism
Elective Courses – Credits: 9
Choose from the following list of courses (no more than 6 credits in the same content area):
AAS 633 - Contemporary Issues in African American Studies
AAS 634 - Constructions of Racial Ambiguity
AAS 635 - Malcolm X
AAS 636 - Politics of Racial Ambiguity
CIG 660 - Multicultural Education
CIG 661 - Topics Multicultural Education
CIG 662 - Theory and Research Multicultural Education
CIG 771 - Comparative Studies in Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum
CIG 772 - Introduction to Cultural Studies in Education
CIG 773 - Critical Literacies/Critical Pedagogies
EDH 609 - Leading Diverse Organizations
EDH 714 - Understanding Minority Serving Institutions
ETS 603 - The Hispanic in the United States
ETS 607 - Making Gender, Sexuality & Race
HIST 638A - American Indian History to 1851
HIST 638B - Ethnohistory of Native Americans Since 1851
HIST 638C - Topics in American Indian History
HIST 695 - Special Topics in Gender and History
HIST 754 - Topics in Public History
SOC 607 - Environment and Society
SOC 610 - Sociology of Aging
SOC 615 - World Population Problems
SOC 616 - Sociology of Work and Occupations
SOC 627 - Comparative Racial and Ethnic Relations
SOC 629 - Globalization: Economic, Political, and Cultural Perspectives
SOC 636 - Sociology of Poverty
SOC 641 - Social Inequality
SOC 645 - Men in Society
SOC 649 - Sex and Social Arrangements
SOC 653 - Gender and Society
SOC 655 - Social Movements and Social Change
SOC 660 - Critical Sociology
SOC 665 - Collective Behavior
SOC 671 - Race and Ethnic Relations in America
SOC 675 - Political Sociology
SOC 678 - Women and Society
SOC 682 - Aging and Social Policy
SOC 714 - Seminar in Work and Occupations
SOC 745 - The Family-Work Nexus
SOC 748 - Gender, Sex, Society
SOC 750 - Seminar in the Sociology of Sex
SOC 751 - International Issues: Gender, Sex, Globalization
SOC 752 - Global Migrations
SOC 753 - Racial Justice and Latina/os
SOC 768 - Environmental Sociology
SOC 774 - Seminar in Feminist Theories and Research
SOC 779 - Seminar in Sociology of Aging
SOC 780 - Aging and Social Policy
WMST 601 - Feminist Theories
WMST 618 - Language and Gender
WMST 632A - History of American Women to 1870
WMST 632B - History of American Women Since 1870
WMST 648 - Gender and Social Interaction
WMST 672 - Controversies in Gender and Race
WMST 674 - Gender, Sexuality, and Consumer Culture
WMST 690 - Special Topics
WMST 700 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
WMST 701 - Feminist Theory
WMST 702 - Principles of Feminist Inquiry
WMST 703 - Feminist Pedagogy
WMST 799 - Independent Study
Certificate Requirements
- Students must earn a B or better in all courses.
Plan Certificate Completion Requirements
- Students must submit all required forms to the Graduate College and then apply for graduation in MyUNLV by the appropriate deadline.
- Certificates will be awarded upon the student’s successful completion of all certificate requirements and graduation application.