Please note that SIT will make every effort to maintain its programs as described. To respond to emergent situations, like COVID-19, however, SIT may have to change or cancel programs.
Why a Master's in Social Justice and Advocacy?
Movements today in the United States and around the world are confronting racism, oppression, and growing inequality. Graduates of this program will have a broad, cross-cultural understanding of social justice, a type of knowledge and sensitivity that today’s world requires.
In this program, you will learn from a range of models including advocacy for the rights of LGTBIQA+, refugee, migrant, and Indigenous communities; movements for justice after conflict, right to the city, and climate justice; and protest movements in illiberal democracies. You will design an advocacy program in support of the social justice issue of your choice.
Spend your first semester in Belgrade, Serbia, the largest urban space in southeast Europe and home to dynamic, new social movements and activist groups demanding social change. Spring semester takes you to Buenos Aires, Argentina, where movements have sparked a “human rights cascade” after the return to democracy and continue to drive social change throughout the Southern Cone. In Patagonia, you will meet with Indigenous and environmental activists and learn about the struggles of the Mapuche people and the Movimiento de Mujeres Indígenas por el Buen Vivir.
In Budapest, the capital of Hungary, you will learn about advocacy and policy change in an illiberal democracy and analyze the dynamics of activism in the European Union, where issues of social justice are driving political activism.
Your final semester involves a professional practicum and capstone research in close consultation with your faculty advisor to ensure alignment with your personal career goals.
*Accreditation for this program is pending.