REVISION OF MINOR IN PUBLIC PRAXIS - 2012
Public Praxis Minor – 16 credits
As an academic response to the economic & social crises
characterizing much of present public & global life, the Department of
Philosophy and Religious Studies together with the Department of
Sociology has established an interdisciplinary Minor in Public Praxis.
Committed to fully engaged learning, awareness of socio-political, &
economic structures, relational work with subject peoples, analysis of
root causes & transformative possibilities of particular maladies, and
with a view toward a more just and humane world, the Minor requires
students to produce public documents that integrate some form of
work for the common good, scholarship, and critical reflection with
analysis. A Capstone course, Public Praxis 11, provides an opportunity
for students to initiate, work out all details, and institutionalize their
own project (for example: Relay for Life, Global Outreach, Project
Marist Meals, instituted at Marist by public praxis minors). Courses
that count for the minor are listed on the public praxis website each
semester. Sample courses below. For additional information,
contact: MarforPeace@gmail.com, Projectkeeper
Public/Global Citizenship & Human Rights - 3 cr
Core course of the minor, required. Inclusive of Human Rights &
the theory & practice of Public Praxis, the course is thematic
from semester to semester.
REST320/SOC 320 Public Praxis 1
Fall 2011 PP1: World Poverty, Human Trafficking, Praxis
Spring 2012 PP1: Resistance, Hope, and Human rights
Fall 2012 PP1: Social Ethics & Economics
Affliction & Praxis – 3 - 6 cr (samples)
Choose one course from either this category or the next, & two
courses from the other.
SOC 336 Social Inequality
REST 331 Social Ethics and Economics
HIST 216 Black Political and Social Thought
CRJU 314 U.S. Urban Cultures
POSC 353 Comparative Politics of Developing Areas
REST 244 Prisons, Praxis & Prisoners
ST: REST392 Haiti, Praxis, and Solidarity
Humanity & the Common Good– 3 – 6 cr (samples)
Choose one course from either this category or the one above &
two courses from the other.
PSYC 222 Community Psychology
REST 208 Judeao-Christian Scriptures
REST 245 Jesus & Discipleship
ENG 373 Literature of the Holocaust
INTD 212 Self, Society, and Institutions
ENSC 305 Environmental Economics
SOC 341 Social Change
REST 315 Global Liberation Theology
ST:REST393 The Bible and Building a Better World
Public Praxis Capstone (Required) – 3/4 cr
REST325/SOC 325 Public Praxis 11
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reduces required credits from 18-21 to 15/16. Public Praxis
11 becomes a 3 OR 4 credit course (optional requirements)
from 3 credits.
Category titles are revised: the category of Human Rights is
changed to Public/Global Citizenship & Human Rights;
Human Values & Choice is changed to Humanity & the
Common Good; Affluence & Poverty is changed to Affliction
& Praxis
Public Praxis 1, as the required course for the category
Public/Global Citizenship & Human Rights, combines PP1
with a previously required course in Human Rights
Reduces by one course either category, Affliction & Praxis,
OR Humanity & Human Rights to 3 credits from 6.