Social Justice and Service Track
As an institution founded with a mission of social justice, topics of service and social impact are a common throughpoint connecting all Brandeis coursework. Students on the Social Justice and Service track will take CESP 10a: Foundations in Community Engagement (if attending in the fall) and can choose from electives that may include courses like:
- Narratives of the Borderlands and Border Crossers
- Immigration and Human Rights
- Social Inequalities in the Media
- Jazz, Politics, and Protest
- Migrating Bodies, Migrating Texts
- Health, Community, and Society
- Sociology of Race and Racism
Don't want to take a full course load of classes in Social Justice & Service? Students are eligible to take any undergraduate courses at Brandeis with availability. The list above is provided as a suggested list of courses that students on the Social Justice & Service track may be interested in.
View all upcoming course offerings (subject to change)
Outside the Classroom
At Brandeis, community engagement and service isn't just theoretical - it informs the lives we live on campus and in the city of Waltham. All students on this track will join one of the clubs affiliated with the Waltham Group, which serves the diverse needs of the city of Waltham, Massachusetts. Club opportunities include:
- Advocates for Health
- Afternoon Enrichment
- Big Siblings
- Blood Drive
- Brandeis Buddies
- Community Connections
- Companions to Elders (C2E)
- General Tutoring (GT)
- Habitat for Humanity
- Hunger and Homelessness (H&H)
- Junior Brandeis Achievers (JBA)
- Kids Connection
- Language and Cultural Enrichment (LaCE)
- Language Empowering Action Project (LEAP)
- Prospect Hill Kids' Club
- Service Without Borders
- SPECTRUM
- Symbiosis
- Teaching Assistants in Public Schools (TAPS)
Students will also have the opportunity to attend lectures on political engagement offered by ENACT: The Abraham Feinberg Educational Network for Active Civic Transformation and participate in events organized by the many centers at Brandeis' renowned Heller School for Social Policy and Management, including the Center for Global Development and Sustainability, the Center for Youth and Communities, the Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, and the Sillerman Center for the Advancement of Philanthropy.
Brandeis students pursue a wide range of service opportunities on- and off-campus. If you come to Brandeis with a different idea of how to contribute, we will gladly assist you in making it a reality.
“In the years that I have been at Brandeis, I have seen so many ways that Brandeis students devote themselves to the work of repairing the world. I see this in how our community values kindness, in how many hours our students devote to service and advocacy, and in how seriously students take their academics.”
Dr. Sara Shostak, Dean, School of Social Sciences and Social Policy and Professor of Sociology