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Dec 03, 2024
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2018-2019 Graduate Catalog ARCHIVED CATALOG: CONTENT MAY NOT BE CURRENT. USE THE DROP DOWN ABOVE TO ACCESS THE CURRENT CATALOG.
Graduate Certificate in Social Justice Studies
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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
Required Courses – Credits: 3
Required Electives – Credits: 6
Elective Courses – Credits: 9
Choose from the following list of courses (no more than 6 credits in the same content area):
- AAS 636 - Politics of Racial Ambiguity
- CME 720 - Comparative Studies in Learning, Teaching, and Curriculum
- CME 710 - Introduction to Cultural Studies in Education
- CIG 773 - Critical Literacies/Critical Pedagogies
- CME 600 - Multicultural Education
- CME 620 - Topics Multicultural Education
- CME 640 - Theory and Research Multicultural Education
- EDH 609 - Leading Diverse Organizations
- EDH 714 - Understanding Minority Serving Institutions
- 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 774 - Seminar in Feminist Theories and Research
- SOC 779 - Seminar in Sociology of Aging
- SOC 780 - Aging and Social Policy
- SOC 768 - Environmental Sociology
- 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 745 - The Family-Work Nexus
- SOC 714 - Seminar in Work and Occupations
- SOC 682 - Aging and Social Policy
- SOC 665 - Collective Behavior
- SOC 671 - Race and Ethnic Relations in America
- SOC 675 - Political Sociology
- SOC 678 - Women and Society
- SOC 649 - Sex and Social Arrangements
- SOC 653 - Gender and Society
- SOC 655 - Social Movements and Social Change
- SOC 660 - Critical Sociology
- SOC 641 - Social Inequality
- SOC 645 - Men in Society
- 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 607 - Environment and Society
- SOC 610 - Sociology of Aging
- WMST 702 - Principles of Feminist Inquiry
- WMST 703 - Feminist Pedagogy
- WMST 799 - Independent Study
- WMST 690 - Special Topics
- WMST 700 - Introduction to Women’s Studies
- WMST 701 - Feminist Theory
- 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
AAS 633 - Contemporary Issues in African American Studies
AAS 634 - Constructions of Racial Ambiguity
AAS 635 - Malcolm X
ETS 603 - The Hispanic in the United States
ETS 607 - Making Gender, Sexuality & Race
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.
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