{"id":540126,"date":"2021-05-25T14:51:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540126"},"modified":"2021-05-25T14:51:06","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T18:51:06","slug":"university-of-central-florida-creates-social-justice-graduate-degree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/university-of-central-florida-creates-social-justice-graduate-degree\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Central Florida Creates \u2018Social Justice\u2019 Graduate Degree"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Funiversity-of-central-florida-creates-social-justice-graduate-degree%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=540126&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/University-of-Central-Florida.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span>The University of Central Florida (UCF) created a graduate degree program and a communications track focused on social justice.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the school\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/social-justice-in-public-service-certificate\/\"><span>website<\/span><\/a><span>, students can receive a graduate certificate from the College of Community Innovation and Education in \u201cSocial Justice in Public Service.\u201d The program is aimed at developing leaders \u201cwho can influence policy to create social justice.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Students will study the \u201ctheoretical background [of] social justice, explor[e] topics such as human rights, income distribution, and the role of markets.\u201d The topics will help students understand the impact of social justice on \u201cgovernment and nonprofit sectors in education, health, transportation, and housing policy domains among others.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cStudents will understand factors that contribute to inequity among various groups, with a focus on providing a theoretical background and methods to analyze social justice issues in public service,\u201d the course description reads.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Examples of classes include \u201cEquitable Educational Opportunity and Life Chances,\u201d \u201cEnvironmental Security,\u201d \u201cWomen and Public Policy,\u201d \u201cSocial Inequalities in Health,\u201d and \u201cHuman Rights and Security.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The graduate degree is designed for students who wish to become city council members, government professors, legislators, political consultants, senators, and other public policy figures.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The university also created a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucf.edu\/degree\/human-communication-ba\/social-innovation-and-activism-track\/\"><span>track<\/span><\/a><span> within the school of communications for \u201csocial innovation and activism.\u201d The track is designed for future authors and journalists who wish to focus more on activism.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Classes within the communications activism track cost approximately $212 per credit hour for in-state students and $748 per credit hour for out-of-state students.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>UCF is not the first school to create a social justice degree. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.campusreform.org\/article?id=8106\"><span>Campus Reform<\/span><\/a><span>, the University of Iowa became one of the first schools in 2016 to add a bachelor\u2019s program in social justice to its list of degrees.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The University of Iowa began by offering first-year seminars on social justice and a \u201cJustice for All\u201d living-learning community where students could live and \u201clearn about systemic problems in our society.\u201d The school\u2019s Board of Regents eventually voted in favor of creating an entire degree program.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Some universities are painting social justice degrees as \u201cAfrican-American Studies\u201d departments. According to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecollegefix.com\/saint-louis-university-plans-to-cut-american-studies-undergraduate-degrees\/\"><span>The College Fix<\/span><\/a><span>, St. Louis University axed its undergraduate department for American Studies and replaced it with an African-American Studies department that was unpopular among students. The university\u2019s graduation slideshow listed just one student with a minor in African-American studies in 2020.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a Facebook <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sluamericanstudies\/posts\/4448087201886897\"><span>post<\/span><\/a><span>, the American Studies department chair said that \u201cour current majors and minors received an email from Provost Mike Lewis, announcing his intention to close our BA Major and Minor programs.\u201d The department chair said, however, that the program had taken it upon itself to institute an emphasis on \u201csocial justice\u201d and \u201cdiversity.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cI hope many of you will be interested in supporting this larger fight on behalf of future students and for the sake of maintaining our department\u2019s footprint as a vibrant interdisciplinary program in which every class considers structural inequities, social justice, and diversity in many intersectional senses.\u201d&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. 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