Engineering and Social Justice

3 Credits

Students will explore the relationships between engineering and social justice through personal reflection and historical and contemporary case studies. Students will explore their own social locations, privileges, alliances, and resistances to social justice through critical engagement of interdisciplinary readings that challenge engineering mindsets and ideologies. Students will work to understand what constitutes social justice in different areas of social life and the role that engineers, and engineering might play. Students will gain an understanding of why and how engineering has been aligned and divergent from social justice issues and causes.