Bachelor of Arts in Gender Equality and Social Justice (Honours Specialization) in Human Rights and Social Justice

Nipissing University

This program will provide you with highly transferrable skills in critical thinking, research, writing, argumentation, analysis, and communication.As one of few programs of its kind in Canada, the GESJ program will teach you to think critically about who has the power in the world, and why, as well as how to resist, shape, and change power for social justice. This program is highly interdisciplinary with close links to Social Welfare and Social Development, Religions and Cultures, Political Science, and Philosophy, and is designed for those with interests in critical studies of popular culture the politics of resisting inequality through the law globalization and human rights violent conflict and international justice transnational organizing for social justice histories of colonization feminist philosophies postmodernism theories of justice and the intersections of race, class, ability, sex and gender.Courses in this stream examine the gendered, raced, economic and geopolitical dimensions to human rights violations. We also examine human rights advocacy in specific local and global contexts and practices: war, peace, prisons, schools, museums, workplaces, sex work, development, trafficking, torture, and everyday violence.