DC 476: Gender, Justice, and Equity

This course serves as the culmination of the Gender, Justice, and Equity minor and the Dominican Curriculum. This course involves an examination of issues of interest to the students as well as an exploration of theories of social movements and actions that can be taken to address social issues. Understanding how social movements come about, gain strength, and create change allows students to explore how they can take action in the realm of their identified issue related to gender, justice, and equity. Students are encouraged to use this course to focus on their own interests while making use of multiple disciplinary lenses, including at least one value-focused lens. Based on what they have learned in the core courses of the minor, as well as their other coursework, students will work with a faculty member on a service-learning project, a research paper, or a creative project. Among the things students will produce in this course are an e-portfolio, paper, and presentation related to their selected project. In their projects, students “close the loop” by proposing and evaluating courses of action to address the issues directly.