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Connecting with Social Justice RAP Fall 2023

This popular RAP is designed for students who are interested in exploring social justice issues academically and/or personally.

As a member of a Connecting with Social Justice RAP you will learn about crucial social justice issues, both historical and facing the world today through the lens of the particular course affiliated with the RAP.

If you want to explore themes of social change from multiple perspectives and their relevance to current issues at UMass Amherst and in the world at-large, this RAP is an excellent choice!

Join a community of peers who share your interests and who recognize the increasingly important need to address social justice issues in our complex world.

HISTORY 155: Empires to Nations: The Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Gen Ed DGHS) Fall 2023

Students will live together in Moore Hall in Southwest Residential Area. 

As people moved, voluntarily and involuntarily, between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, they created what Michel-Rolph Truillot calls “the first moment of globality.” This course explores the role of people, pathogens, plants, animals, ideas, and institutions in forming societies and cultures across a vast geographic expanse that helped forge the modern world.

Connecting with Social Justice RAP

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