The IGR Capstone

Social Justice in the Real World

This course, offered to seniors only, will focus on social justice and social change in the United States and on individual participants’ own values, skills and future plans. By their senior year, many UM students committed to social change have managed to find places where they can learn about such work or even to engage in it with allies on campus or the local community. But what about after graduation?  This course seeks to address this question and consider social change and social justice “in the real world”.

We will explore alternative meanings of social justice, theories and strategies of social change, roles of change agents in traditional career environs, the costs and benefits of careers of social activism, including opportunities for career choices in these arenas and the assessment of personal skills and resources, discussions with local social justice advocates and organizational representatives, and practice in multicultural teamwork and coalition building.

For registration information, contact intergroup-relations@umich.edu.