Racial Justice Certificate

Central to Advocating for Equality.

Central Connecticut State University’s interdisciplinary Certificate in Racial Justice is designed to educate currently enrolled students and continuing education students about such concepts as anti-racism, advocacy, white privilege, and institutionalized racism in the United States.  The anti-racist education will expand an understanding of systemic racism in the United States, providing citizens and students with tools to advocate for and begin to repair social, cultural, economic, and legal inequalities that affect our neighborhoods and our nation.  

Program Features

  • Starts every January and August
  • 15-credit program
  • Offers flexible scheduling to accommodate working professionals
  • Professionals in fields such as education, nursing, social work, business and management, political reform, and criminal justice learn to holistically serve various cultural groups with an understanding and appreciation of the social, political, and racial contexts of their lives
  • Taught from multiple perspectives by faculty from such fields as Criminal Justice, Philosophy, Literary Studies, and Anthropology
  • Features the new interdisciplinary course, RJ200: Introduction to Racial Justice, which draws students from a variety of backgrounds and fields

Racial Justice Certificate

Admissions Contact

Undergraduate Recruitment & Admissions
(860) 832-2278
admissions@ccsu.edu

Academic Contact

Aimee Pozorski
Professor
English
Coordinator
Racial Justice | Cert
Asian American & Pacific Islander Studies, Minor
Professor
English | MA
Willard-DiLoreto Hall
401-26
860.832.2773
pozorskia@ccsu.edu

Academic Department

Criminology/Criminal Justice

The power of the past is all around us, as it forms the shell in which the present and future unfold. Understanding the present and creating a better future can only be done by reckoning with how the nation has structured and dealt with racial issues. This program will help students create a more inclusive and just society.

Dr. John Day Tully

Did You Know?

The Certificate in Racial Justice Program collaborates with such campus groups as MOSAIC, The African American Studies Program, and the Africana Center. Our latest collaboration welcomed Professor Eddie Glaude to campus in February 2022 to speak about his book, Begin Again.

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understand how cultural representation directly affects political representation;  

  2. Interrogate their own assumptions about race and racial difference;  

  3. Advocate for racial justice in the United States through community engagement.