Advocacy and Social Justice Studies
More than ever, the world needs effective leaders like you who are prepared to tackle the complex social challenges that impact our communities, social institutions, global health and environment, and advocate for those who are underrepresented and vulnerable.
Through the UWW Interdisciplinary Studies program, you can channel your commitment to a just and equitable world into a wide range of academic fields and earn your bachelor’s degree online with a focus in advocacy and social justice studies.
Program Benefits
- You’re in the Driver’s Seat: Design your own degree concentration through your perfect mix of 100% online courses, and optional blended or on-campus offerings to fit your busy life. Plus, most of our online courses are asynchronous, meaning you can complete them on your schedule.
- Accelerate Your Degree: Bring in or earn up to 105 credits for your prior coursework, prior learning, and life and work experience to accelerate your degree, saving you time and money.
- Cross Disciplinary Boundaries: Craft your individualized degree concentration to suit your goals and interests, from taking online courses in sustainability to study farming and justice, to focusing on health and human services advocacy through online health and health management courses.
- Community College Friendly: Learn about the Mass Transfer Gen Ed Foundation and benefit from our 50-year history of support for community college students.
- Boston Children's Hospital and Mass General Brigham employees: Receive a 10% discount and more. Learn more about how you can benefit from our employer partnerships.
Your Future in Advocacy and Social Justice
With an Interdisciplinary Studies degree focused in advocacy and social justice, you can advance your career in a wide range of fields, including: child advocacy, health advocacy, law, education, social justice education, government, human rights, disability rights, environmental justice, human services, criminal justice, health care, business, non-profit organizations, and more. Advocacy and Social Justice Studies also provides great preparation for graduate school.
Flexible, Cross-Disciplinary Courses
You will study social justice with distinguished instructors from a wide range of academic departments, from Afro-American Studies to Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies.
To give you an idea of the types of online social justice courses you could choose from, here is a sampling offered over the past few years.
Dept | Number | Title |
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AFROAM | 132 | African-American History 1619-1860 |
AFROAM | 151 | Literature & Culture |
AFROAM | 236 | History of the Civil Rights Movement |
ANTHRO | 104 | Culture, Society and People |
ANTHRO | 208 | Human Ecology |
ANTHRO | 258 | Food and Culture |
ANTHRO | 270 | North American Indians |
ANTHRO | 312 | Medical Anthropology |
ART-EXT | 389 | Cultural Equity in the Arts |
ART-EXT | 390B | Cultural Policy and Advocacy |
BDIC | 391L | Fundamentals of Grants in the Nonprofit Sector |
COMM | 288 | Gender, Sex & Representation |
COMM | 289 | Media, Public Relations & Propaganda |
COMM | 336 | Consumer Culture |
COMM | 386 | Race, Inequality and Representation |
ECON | 105 | Introduction to Political Economy |
ECON | 308 | Political Economy of the Environment |
EDUC | 115 | Embracing Diversity |
EDUC | 190E | Ethnic Studies and Education |
EDUC | 210 | Social Diversity in Education |
EDUC | 377 | Introduction to Multicultural Education |
EDUC | 595G | LGBTQ Issues in Education |
ENGLISH | 132 | Gender, Sexuality, Literature & Culture |
GEOGRAPH | 102 | Diversity, Globalization, and Sustainability: Introduction to Human Geography |
GEOGRAPH | 110 | Introduction to Climate Science |
HISTORY | 121 | Modern Latin America |
HISTORY | 131 | Middle East History II |
HISTORY | 161 | History of Africa since 1500 |
HISTORY | 154 | Social Change in the 1960s |
HISTORY | 170 | Indigenous People of North America |
HISTORY | 253 | Asian-Pacific American History: 1850 - Present |
HISTORY | 264 | History of Health Care and Medicine in the U.S. |
HISTORY | 265 | US LGBT and Queer History |
HISTORY | 387 | The Holocaust |
HISTORY | 389 | US Women's History Since 1890 |
LEGAL | 357 | Gender, Law, and Politics |
LEGAL | 364 | Transitional Justice and Truth Commissions |
LEGAL | 375 | Human Rights & Wrongs |
LEGAL | 390B | Health as a Human Right |
LEGAL | 391T | Animals, Politics and the Law |
MANAGMNT | 366 | Foundations of Sustainable Enterprise |
MANAGMNT | 462 | Social Entrepreneurship |
NUTRTIN | 572 | Community Nutrition |
NUTRITN | 575 | Culture, Nutrition and Health |
PHIL | 164 | Medical Ethics |
POLISCI | 210 | Race and American Politics |
POLISCI | 229 | Experiments in Political Persuasion, Perception, Power, Prejudice and Policy |
POLISCI | 252 | Globalization, Governance, and World Order |
POLISCI | 258 | Gender, Conflict, and Security |
POLISCI | 273 | Power |
POLISCI | 338 | Nationalism, Ethnicity & Identity in Politics |
POLISCI | 359 | International Political Economy |
POLISCI | 388 | Corporate Lobbying and Global Economy |
POLISCI | 389 | Diplomacy and International Negotiation |
POLISCI | 395F | Women and Politics |
PSYCH | 327 | Disability Advocacy and Its History |
PSYCH | 360 | Social Psychology |
PSYCH | 391DG | Disability Identity: Intersections of Race, Gender and Sexuality |
PSYCH | 395N | Autism, Neurodiversity and Identity |
PSYCH | 480 | Intellectual Disability: Concepts and Controversies |
PUBHLTH | 129 | Health Care For All |
PUBHLTH | 302 | Community Development and Health Education |
PUBHLTH | 340 | LGBTQ Health |
HPP | 507 | Violence as a Public Health Issue |
HPP | 524 | Introduction to Health Politics and Policy |
HPP | 525 | Ethical Issues In Public Health |
HPP | 560 | Globalization and Health |
HPP | 583 | Global Health in the Developing World |
RES-ECON | 121 | Hunger in a Global Economy |
RES-ECON | 262 | Environmental Economics |
SCH-MGMT | 201 | Inclusive Leadership for Global Workplaces |
SOCIOL | 103 | Social Problems |
SOCIOL | 106 | Race, Gender, Class & Ethnicity |
SOCIOL | 222 | The Family |
SOCIOL | 224 | Social Class and Inequality |
SOCIOL | 245 | Race & Society |
SOCIOL | 287 | Sexuality & Society |
SOCIOL | 328 | Introduction to Social Work |
SOCIOL | 353 | Sociology of Medicine |
SOCIOL | 364 | Sociology of Mental Health |
SOCIOL | 374 | Gender, Crime, and Families |
SOCIOL | 392J | Race and Policing |
SOCIOL | 395K | Domestic Violence |
SPANISH | 372 | Intercultural Understanding |
SPP | 590STC | Topics in Disability Policy |
STOCKSCH | 165 | Introduction to Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems |
STOCKSCH | 354 | Non-Profit Management of Community-based Farming Programs |
STOCKSCH | 355 | Community Food Systems |
STOCKSCH | 397FJ | Social Permaculture for Food Justice |
STPEC | 189 | Introduction to Radical Social Theory |
SUSTCOMM | 232 | History of Sustainable Community Development: Indigenous Subsistence vs. Globalized Superabundance |
UWW | 361 | Introduction to Deaf Studies |
UWW | 363 | Perspectives on Social Justice and Advocacy |
UWW | 375 | Sexual Violence: Multidisciplinary & Anti-Oppression Approaches |
UWW | 377 | Child Abuse & Neglect: Multidisciplinary Approaches |
WGSS | 187 | Gender, Sexuality and Culture |
WGSS | 220 | Sustainability, Gender, and the Global Environment |
WGSS | 250 | Intro to Sexuality and Trans Studies: Movements for Justice in the Contemporary World |
WGSS | 275 | Literature & Social Justice: Gender, Race, and the Radical Imagination |
WGSS | 286 | History of Sexuality and Race in the United States |