Posted on 05/26/2021 8:21:44 AM PDT by Signalman
Amid the left’s complete overhaul of the education system, graduate students at the University of Central Florida will be able to specialize in “social justice.”
Less than a year after so-called social justice warriors defaced statues of actual social justice warriors, this UCF degree, titled “Social Justice in Public Service,” is being offered as a graduate certificate in the school of public administration. It includes course offerings in “political and economic inequality in comparative perspective,” “multicultural education,” “equitable educational opportunity and life chances,” and more. The certificate description states:
The Social Justice in Public Service graduate certificate seeks to develop leaders who can influence policy to create social justice. Students will obtain a theoretical background in social justice, exploring topics such as human rights, income distribution and the role of markets. Students 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. They will understand principles of social justice as they apply to government and nonprofit sector in education, health, transportatuion, and housing policy domains among others.
The school says the program is specifically for those wishing to work in government or political positions. Similar to this track, the university’s Nicholson School of Communication is offering a course load on “social innovation and activism,” which is purportedly for those wishing to become writers and journalism professors. The university did not respond to The Federalist’s request for comment.
As the social justice industry booms — with white leftist speakers able to make $12,000 off a single campus racial justice speech — other institutions have determined that degrees in this left-wing indoctrination are worthwhile. In 2016, the University of Iowa was one of the first schools in the country to add a social justice bachelor’s degree. Other related degrees include “African American Studies.” This is the case, for instance, at St. Louis University, which notably had only one student minor in the subject matter in 2020.
Jackie Shade, assistant professor of Biology at a Penn State University branch campus, forwarded The Federalist a letter sent to staff and students from the head of the African American Studies department after the conviction of Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd.
“My job as an administrator, faculty member, activist, wife and mother will never be to protect the reputation of Penn State, State College, SCASD or any other entity that speaks in the language of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion without doing the hard, painful work of creating a truly equitable, anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-transphobic, pro-immigrant climate,” wrote department head Cynthia A Young.
How soon before they start offering degrees in anti-Americanism?
Justice is blind.
Socialist Justice experts bias cases and seek unequal outcomes.
The ultimate in virtue signaling
A worthless degree, no job opportunities, and erase my student loan debt.
Sounds better than a degree in lesbian dance theory*
*credit to Ben Shapiro...
All of us need to get into the faces of our State Legislators and ask them the tough question of why are they continuing to fund these State Run Universities who are propagating Leftist Ideologies.
Until the State Run Universities are hit in the pocketbook, garbage courses like this will continue.
I favor this. It’s like a warning label.
They’re worried that if you do that it’ll hurt football recruiting which to them is more important than academic rigor and integrity.
Are you required to be black in order to get it?
It’s not worthless to the uni.
A program like that, as opposed to a STEM program, is unspeakably cheap to run.
Generates profit for little investment.
If you’re running a diploma mill, what’s not to love?
This could be a good thing. When someone shows up for a job interview, and that’s their degree ... easy way to rule out the riff-raff and potential troublemakers. “NEXT applicant, please!”
Training low IQ people in stupid slogans, to work in useless government jobs, paid for by massive debt and printed money
Its completely irrational, but it maintains the present political arrangement.
Get a Woman's Studies undergrad and a Social Justice graduate degree and you're ready for the big bucks. </sarcasm>
Only very angry people should take the social justice course
Good point.
“I have a Major in Wymon’s Studies, with a Minor in Social Justice, $150K in student debt, and can’t find a job. Weird, huh?”
“Steve” just graduated with a specialty in “Social Justice”
Today is Steve’s first day on the job. Let’s listen in:
“Would you like fries with that order?”
Do they offer a minor in “Fast Food Service”? FF101 Do you want fries with that? FF201 Biggie size that? FF 303 Make that a combo? FF401 How to count change. FF501 Internship at a local restaurant.
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