At the University of Iowa, You Can Now Earn a Bachelor���s Degree in Social Justice
���Get a degree in social justice���.because there���s no such thing as a truly useless college degree.���
Is that going to be the promotional tagline of the University of Iowa���s latest bachelor���s program offering?
According to reporting by Jessica Chasmar over at The Washington Times, the Iowa Board of Regents voted this past Thursday to add ���Social Justice��� to the least of bachelor���s degree programs available at the university.
You read that right ��� Social Justice.
The approved proposal for the new degree contains, of course, a description of the program. That description reads, in part:
���The proposed program is an interdisciplinary program that will help students explore, discover, and create practical solutions to real issues related to economics, health care, human rights, civil rights, and the environment. It will be located in the Department of Gender, Women���s and Sexuality Studies (GWSS) because it is one of the leaders on campus for creating opportunities for real-world experience tied to classroom experience.���
The description goes on to explain things further:
���Students will explore the intersections of race, class, gender, culture, economics, history, nationality, and human rights. They will approach social justice through the arts, history, literature, comparative religious studies, political science, philosophy, health education, and gender, women���s, and sexuality studies.���
In the Times reporting, the Provost of the University of Iowa, Barry Butler, says that he expects interest in the new program to be substantial, and bases that expectation on the popularity of both a recent seminar on social justice made available at the school, as well as its ���Justice for All��� living-learning community, where those possessed of a social justice warrior mindset can live together on campus.
���The University of Iowa is now going to offer a bachelor���s degree in Social Justice.��� I probably could have just said that, and then stopped writing���because, once you get that out, is there really anything else to say?
By Robert G. Yetman, Jr. Editor At Large
