SOCIAL JUSTICE AND PEACE STUDIES
In Year One, students will be required to complete one required first year course and select their remaining options from a range of disciplines.
The Social Justice and Peace Studies program is designed for students who wish to expand their awareness of social justice and peace issues, develop critical research and analytical skills and become incisive change agents in their local community as well as globally. The program encourages critical reflection on structural injustices and conflict locally and globally in addition to calling for social action to transform the world in the interest of dignity, equality, sustainability and the pursuit of peace. Community service in one of a variety of local agencies is mandatory in second year and opportunities to participate in international awareness experiences for course credit is also available. Further information can be found here.
Sample Courses: Perspectives on Social Justice and Peace, Contemporary Canadian Issues in Social Justice and Peace, Contemporary Global Issues in Social Justice and Peace, Public Finance-Expenditure, Income Distribution and Poverty Warfare, North Environmental History, Philosophy of Law, Introduction to Comparative Politics, Contemporary Moral Problems, Minority Groups
Possible Career Opportunities: include education, law, journalism, politics, civil service, activism on local and global levels with non-governmental organizations, international or local agencies.