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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 | 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 | 297W | W.E.B. Du Bois in Our Time: From Reconstruction to Black Lives Matter |
ANTHRO | 312 | Medical Anthropology |
ANTHRO | 397NM | Organizing for New Movement Leaders |
ART-EXT | 389 | Cultural Equity in the Arts |
ART-EXT | 390B | Cultural Policy and Advocacy |
COMM | 288 | Gender, Sex & Representation |
COMM | 289 | Media, Public Relations & Propaganda |
COMM | 336 | Consumer Culture |
COMM | 386 | Race, Inequality and Representation |
COMM | 394EI | Performance and the Politics of Race |
ECON | 105 | Introduction to Political Economy |
ECON | 308 | Political Economy of the Environment |
ECON | 397SE | Stratification Economics: Understanding Inequality |
EDUC | 115 | Embracing Diversity |
EDUC | 190E | Ethnic Studies and Education |
EDUC | 210 | Social Diversity in Education |
EDUC | 377 | Introduction to Multicultural Education |
EDUC | 397D | Disability Advocacy and Its History |
EDUC | 595G | LGBTQ Issues in Education |
ENGLISH | 132 | Gender, Sexuality, Literature & Culture |
GEOGRAPH | 102 | Diversity, Globalization, and Sustainability: Introduction to Human Geography |
GEOGRAPH | 110 | Global Environment Change |
HISTORY | 121 | Modern Latin America |
HISTORY | 154 | Social Change in the 1960s |
HISTORY | 170 | Indigenous People of North America |
HISTORY | 264 | History of Healthcare and Medicine in the U.S. |
HISTORY | 265 | US LGBT and Queer History |
HISTORY | 351 | The Making of American Capitalism, c. 1492-2020 |
LEGAL | 375 | Human Rights and Wrongs |
LEGAL | 391T | Animals, Politics and the Law |
LEGAL | 397R | Gender, Law and Politics |
MANAGMNT | 366 | Foundations of Sustainable Enterprise |
MANAGMNT | 391E | Environmental Law |
MANAGMNT | 462 | Social Entrepreneurship |
PHIL | 164 | Medical Ethics |
POLISCI | 252 | Globalization, Governance, and World Order |
POLISCI | 273 | Power |
POLISCI | 338 | Nationalism, Ethnicity & Identity in Politics |
POLISCI | 359 | International Political Economy |
POLISCI | 388 | Corporate Lobbying and Global Economy |
POLISCI | 391F | The Politics of Food |
POLISCI | 395F | Women and Politics |
POLISCI | 397BL | The Politics of Black Lives Matter |
POLISCI | 397CT | Conspiracy Theory and the American Imagination |
POLISCI | 397ES | Environmental and Sustainability Politics |
POLISCI | 397P | Health Care Politics and Inequality in the Unites States |
POLISCI | 397PC | Politics of Health Care |
POLISCI | 397RT | Politics of Race, Poverty, and Technology |
PSYCH | 360 | Social Psychology |
PSYCH | 391WM | Women's Mental Health |
PSYCH | 480 | Intellectual Disability: Concepts and Controversies |
PSYCH | 491D | Impact of Disabilities on Families |
PUBHLTH | 129 | Health Care For All |
PUBHLTH | 302 | Community Development and Health Education |
PUBHLTH | 340 | LGBTQ Health |
PUBHLTH | 389 | Health Inequities |
PUBHLTH | 490M | The Opioid Epidemic |
PUBHLTH | 497F | Food Justice |
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 |
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 | 297D | Crime, Race and Gender |
SOCIOL | 328 | Introduction to Social Work |
SOCIOL | 353 | Sociology of Medicine |
SOCIOL | 364 | Sociology of Mental Health |
SOCIOL | 392J | Race and Policing |
SOCIOL | 395K | Domestic Violence |
SOCIOL | 397AM | Asylums, Madness, and Mental Illness in American Culture |
SOCIOL | 397CP | Crime and Public Policy |
SOCIOL | 397F | Gender, Crime, and Families |
SOCIOL | 397VP | Violence By and Against the Police |
STOCKSCH | 354 | Non-Profit Management of Community-based Farming Programs |
STOCKSCH | 355 | Community Food Systems |
STOCKSCH | 356 | Food Justice and Policy |
STPEC | 189 | Introduction to Radical Social Theory |
SUSTCOMM | 533 | Urban Greening Theory & Practice |
UWW | 375 | Sexual Violence: Multidisciplinary & Anti-Oppression Approaches |
UWW | 377 | Child Abuse & Neglect: Multidisciplinary Approaches |
UWW | 397P | Introduction to Deaf Studies |
UWW | 397S | Perspectives on Social Justice and Advocacy |
WGSS | 187 | Gender, Sexuality and Culture |
WGSS | 286 | History of Sexuality and Race in the US |