GLOBAL JUSTICE PATHWAY

Our Humanities

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Among the core ideas animating The Democracy Institute’s academic pathways is the idea of transition. How do we shape our world in light of the transformations that the planet has begun to undergo? In what ways must we prepare our communities for the inevitable transitions that they will need to make? Transitions in our use of energy. Transitions in our ways of approaching inequality. Transitions, above all, in the relationship between our moral imagination and sense of justice, on the one hand, and contemporary drifts in public policy, regulation, and legislation, on the other. Any imagination of the future must today address the links between our unsustainable use of natural resources, our accelerated technological advancement, and the often violent effects of political distraction. The academic pathways at the Institute are designed to train our students to think about these transitions in our institutions, our humanity, and the Humanities.

Reimagining Justice

The proposed Major in Global Justice reimagines the study of modern legal and political thought and the social contract in a global frame. The pathway will be based on specifically-designed seminars that will address the six great questions shaping the forms of justice and injustice worldwide today, opening students to the most critical thinkers and traditions of our democratic inheritance. Once fully designed and approved for enrollment by the CSU Chancellor's Office, the pathway will offer an intensive list of transdisciplinary courses taught by CPP’s top faculty in the Humanities and Sciences. The idea behind the Global Justice Seminars will be to train students to read and interpret the transformative texts drawn from the global democratic tradition, while reorienting their points of entry into the moral, political, and legal universe from which modern ideals and institutions for justice emerge.

The Major in Global Justice is currently not open for enrollment. For more information on the proposed pathway and the Global Justice Seminars under design, email democracy@cpp.edu.