丁香园AV

Department of Sociology and Anthropology | Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
丁香园AV Calendar 2012 Fall

This interdisciplinary program is for those planning to work in multicultural or cross-cultural settings. In today鈥檚 increasingly interdependent world, the need for critical understanding of ethnicity and social justice has been acknowledged by educators, community workers and other professionals. In response, the program explores causes of unequal treatment, compare social justice issues internationally, and develops strategies for social change.

The program is for both general students and those interested in working with human service professionals (social workers, educators, police, counsellors, personnel managers, health practitioners or civil servants) who are required to interact effectively with people from a variety of cultural and linguistic backgrounds to foster better understanding of the multi-ethnic society in which we live and work.

Day and evening courses are offered at the Burnaby campus and at the Vancouver campus. Some are available through Distance Education.

Program Objectives

Program participation enables students to develop:

• critical perspectives on current debates about racism, equality and social justice
• a clearer understanding of the concept of diversity as it relates to hierarchical structuring of differences
• knowledge based on immigration, citizenship and civil rights
• skills that will prepare you for professional work or further academic study in the field.

Program Requirements

Students must successfully complete 30 units comprised of 12 required units, and the remaining chosen from two sets of specified electives. These courses, which include both lower and upper division courses, provide critical and interdisciplinary material.

A minimum 2.50 GPA calculated on the designated courses for the certificate is required. Duplicate courses will be counted only once.

Core Courses

Students complete all of

• POL 481-4 Identity Politics
• SA 203-4 Violence in War and Peace
• SA 345-4 Race, Immigration and the Canadian State*
• SA 386-4 The Ethnography of Politics

Elective Courses

Students complete a minimum of 10 units from the following

• ASC 101-3 Introduction to Asia-Canada Studies I
• CRIM 335-3 Human Rights and Civil Liberties
• CRIM 311-3 Minorities and the Criminal justice System*
• HIST 326-4 The History of Aboriginal Peoples of North America Since 1850
• SA 255-4 Introduction to Social Research
• SA 286-4 Aboriginal Peoples and British Columbia: Introduction
• SA 319-4 Culture Ethnicity and Aging
• SA 340-4 Social Issues and Social Policy Analysis
• WS 200-3 Women in Cross Cultural Perspective

*available through the Centre for Distance Education

Optional Courses

To fulfil the remaining eight units, students choose courses from the following list when content is applicable to multicultural issues. Consult with the department to select courses. It is the student鈥檚 responsibility to ensure completion of prerequisites and other department requirements before choosing elective courses.

• CMNS 447-4 Negotiations and Dialogue as Communication
• CRIM 419-3 Indigenous Peoples, Crime, and Criminal Justice
• EDUC 441-4 Multicultural and Anti-racist Education
• GEOG 102-3 World Problems in Geographical Perspective
• GEOG 420-4 Comparative Cultural Geography
• HIST 424-4 Problems in the Cultural History of Canada
• POL 320-4 Canada and Latin America
• SA 402-4 The Practice of Anthropology
• WS 309-4 Gender and International Development

Subject to steering committee approval, students may substitute relevant special topics or related courses.

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