Advocacy & Social Justice
From climate change to poverty, today’s students inherit an array of local, national, and global crises and challenges. The minor in advocacy and social justice (ASJ) offers opportunities to look deeply at what’s happening in our world so that we can responsibly and ethically empower students to take action and devise solutions.
Social justice involves deep analysis of social problems and systemic inequalities and the collaborative building of fair, equitable alternatives. In addition to core classes in advocacy and social justice, students take electives in everything from cultural anthropology and civil rights law to conflict studies and the psychology of social behavior. Through the ASJ minor, students engage in a welcoming environment in which they facilitate the research, design, and delivery of social justice initiatives in the classroom, on campus, and in the community.
Why Study Advocacy & Social Justice at Rollins
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Interdisciplinary Focus
Faculty who teach in the ASJ minor have research, teaching, and activism experience and expertise in everything from criminal justice and economic inequality to human rights and social movements.
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Essential Experience
Not only will you study the principles, theories, and practices of social justice, but you’ll engage directly with underrepresented populations on initiatives and social justice campaigns and develop tools that help raise consciousness and contribute to the transformation of social systems.
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A Multi-Level Approach
In scholarship with faculty, fellow students, and campus and community partners, you’ll learn how to analyze and redress social injustice at all levels: micro (individual), meso (one’s immediate spheres of influence such as family, school, and workplace), and macro (public policy).
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By tackling topics like disability, immigration, and racism, courses in the ASJ minor support and complement majors in a host of areas—from anthropology and critical media and cultural studies to social entrepreneurship and economics.
CMC 325 Incarceration and Inequality
Investigate how privilege and inequality manifest in areas such as the war on drugs, the militarization of policing, prison privatization, and the death penalty.
ASJ 305 Social Justice Theories & Practices
Examine multiple liberation and social justice approaches from an intersectional perspective, including Freirean liberation theory, critical theory, feminist theories, and decolonial frameworks.
POL 302 The Politics of Global Poverty
Explore political dynamics in developing areas such as Africa, Asia, and Latin America, paying special attention to policies that address extreme poverty.
Expert Faculty
Grounded in social justice values, our professors help students develop the tools to work for change.
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Lisa Tillmann, PhD
Department Chair, Professor of Critical Media & Cultural Studies
Research interests: Activism, social justice documentary filmmaking, and civil rights
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Nicole Richter, PhD
Associate Professor of Critical Media & Culture
Research interests: Women, gender, and sexuality in cinema
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Dan Chong, PhD
Associate Professor of Political Science, Faculty Director of International Relations
Research interests: International human rights, global poverty, and peace and conflict resolution
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Margaret McLaren, PhD
Professor of Philosophy
Research interests: Human rights and globalization, feminist theory and gender issues, and 20th-century French philosophy
