Social Change (SCHG)
Subject-area course lists indicate courses currently active for offering at the University of Louisville. Not all courses are scheduled in any given academic term. For class offerings in a specific semester, refer to the Schedule of Classes.
500-level courses generally are included in both the undergraduate- and graduate-level course listings; however, specific course/section offerings may vary between semesters. Students are responsible for ensuring that they enroll in courses that are applicable to their particular academic programs.
Course Fees
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SCHG 300. Topics in Social Change: Humanities3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Description: Focuses on a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective. Topics are announced in the schedule of classes.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 301. Topics in Social Change: Humanities - WR3 Units
Description: Focuses on a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective. Topics are announced in the schedule of classes.
Note: Approved for the Arts & Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR).
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 302. Topics in Social Change: Social Sciences3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Description: Focuses on a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics are announced in the schedule of courses.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 303. Topics in Social Change: Social Sciences - WR3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Focuses on a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective. Topics are to be announced in the schedule of courses.
Note: Approved for the Arts & Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR).
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 305. Hip-Hop and Social Movements - WR3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall Only
Description: Study of the rise of hip-hop as a social movement, including the origins, spread,and globalization of hip-hop culture, and its use in movements for social change worldwide.
Note: Approved for the Arts & Sciences upper-level written communication requirement (WR).
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 323. Modern American Social Movements3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Introduces students to the history of modern American social movements. Topics will include organizing strategies, tactics, and results.
Note: Cross-listed with HIST 323.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 333. Globalizing Inequalities - WR3 Units
Prerequisite(s): ANTH 201, or SOC 201, or SOC 202, or faculty consent.
Description: One popular story about globalization holds that human beings have been like boats all rising together on a globalizing tide. The course uses data and perspectives from across the social sciences to develop a more realistic story--one that understands that people are not boats and the tides can alternately lift them up or beat them down, refresh them or drown them depending on the circumstances. Questions about those circumstances structure the course. Another question addressed by the course: how can knowing more about globalization and in/equality help us develop the human career in different possible directions? The readings and other materials vary greatly by period, by spatical focus, and by analytical perspective. This is a WR course because the topic demands that students learn to pose their own questions about it and to answer those questions in cogent prose.
Note: Cross-listed ANTH 333.
Note: Approved for the Arts & Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR).
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 375. Social and Restorative Justice3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: This course links social justice and criminology while considering the causes of harm. Assumptions about crime and justice will be examined by comparing and contrasting retributive and restorative justice paradigms. A considerable portion of the course will be dedicated to confronting specific social justice issues.
Note: Cross-listed with CJ 375.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 399. Lectures in Social Change1 Unit
Term Typically Offered: Spring Only
Description: A series of public lectures in Social Change with reading, short writing assignment and discussion for each lecture.
Note: May be repeated when topics vary, up to a maximum of 3 hours.
Course Attribute(s): CBL - This course includes Community-Based Learning (CBL). Students will engage in a community experience or project with an external partner in order to enhance understanding and application of academic content.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 401. Social Change Community Internship3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Restricted to Social Change minors with at least 9 hours of Social Change (SCHG) coursework.
Description: Working with a Social Change faculty member, student will design a project based on 10 hours/week volunteer work in a community organization working for social change.
Course Attribute(s): CBL - This course includes Community-Based Learning (CBL). Students will engage in a community experience or project with an external partner in order to enhance understanding and application of academic content.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 453. Social Change3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Spring Only
Prerequisite(s): SOC 201 and SOC 320; or consent of instructor.
Description: Examines social change from a sociological perspective; explores theories, spheres, patterns, consequences of change; involves students in field study of actual case of change in local community or region.
Note: Cross-listed with SOC 453.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 500. Advanced Topics in Social Change: Humanities3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Provides advanced study of a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 501. Advanced Topics in Social Change: Humanities - WR3 Units
Description: Provides advanced study of a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, humanities perspective.
Note: Approved for the Arts & Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR).
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 502. Advanced Topics in Social Change: Social Sciences3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Provides advanced study of a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 503. Advanced Topics in Social Change: Social Sciences - WR3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Provides advanced study of a specific topic related to social change from an interdisciplinary, social sciences perspective.
Note: Approved for the Arts & Sciences upper-level requirement in written communication (WR).
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 510. Managing Conflict, Change and Justice3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Students will be introduced to the interpersonal and social nature of conflict and the practices and skills associated with conflict resolution. By analyzing the human nature and dynamics of both interpersonal and social conflicts, students will develop an awareness of the integral role the conflict management process plays in nurturing the attributes (is relationship building, equity, fairness & peace) of conflict resolution.
Note: Cross-listed with CJ 510.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 513. U.S. Social Justice Movements of the 20th Century3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): Junior standing.
Description: Course will begin with abolitionism, then concentrate on social justice upsurges of the 20th century, with emphasis on women in the civil rights and Black liberation movements. (Social Sciences)
Note: Cross-listed with HIST 513, PAS 513, WGST 513, WGST 613.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
SCHG 538. Critical Social Theory3 Units
Term Typically Offered: Occasionally Offered
Description: Critical Theory examines the relation between conceptual thinking and concrete social reality. It focuses on concepts such as social justice, freedom, progress, identity, and culture by studying their real-life meanings and implications. This course focuses on the school of thought known as the "Frankfurt School" as well as on its legacy and significance for feminism, gender and queer theory, and critical philosophy of race.
Note: Cross-listed with PHIL 538.
For class offerings for a specific term, refer to the Schedule of Classes
