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Social Justice is a fundamental condition for the survival of any family, community, society, and state. Over time, the perpetuation of systems of injustice leads to experiences of despair and the collapse of any social and economic organisation. The course introduces students to a range of contemporary ideas of equal rights, recognition, and care in multicultural societies. It capacitates students with the most recent theories related to the social struggles for rights, and the juggling of new rights regimes for humans, animals, and machines. The course prepares students to critically evaluate the role of the states in maintaining or transforming injustice predicaments.

This course deals with themes of systems of injustice, the social pathological impacts of inequalities, and the responses offered by social justice approaches. Through theoretical perspectives and practical exercises, students will gain a broad scope of knowledge regarding the meaningfulness of equality, the potential and limits of meritocracy, the need for accountability, knowledge for care giving, and the practices of various social movements. Students will acquire new knowledge of the ways states and state officials operate in responding to injustices.

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. Identify challenges, and analyze systems of injustice and their pervasive consequences for societies;
2. Examine and apply theories of social justice in multicultural contexts through a focus on care, responsibility, meritocracy and accountability processes;
3. Apply theories of social justice to emerging notions of human, animal and machine rights;
4. Discuss social movements and state interventions to explain forms of perpetuation or transformation of systems of injustice;
5. Apply emerging decision-making capacities, including adaptability and responsibility as a learner, to the course materials.