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Ada V. stands outside the Schaumburg Trickster Cultural Center, where she completed the service learning component of her capstone project.
The Social Justice Studies (SJS) Capstone Project is your opportunity to reflect on, apply, and demonstrate what you have learned in
SJS coursework. Your project should be aligned with your personal, professional, and
academic interests and should utilize specific ideas, theories, methods, and narratives
that you have learned towards addressing a specific social justice issue. Capstone
projects are a unique opportunity to enhance your transfer and/or job applications
and for focusing your future academic and professional goals. Completing a capstone project is required to earn the Social Justice Studies Distinction.
All students who are planning to complete an SJS Capstone Project must complete the following requirements:
Student: Ada V.
Mentors: Ranjani Murali, Michael Bentley
Service Learning: Schaumburg Trickster Cultural Center
Description: exploring the history of the forced assimilation and cultural alienation of North
American indigenous communities, and the contemporary strategies that aim to counter
cultural injustice through culture-specific rituals, education, and community support.
Student: Bianca D.S.
Mentor: Ranajani Murali
Service Learning: Journey's/The Road Home
Description: analyzing the role that popular media and culture have played in stigmatizing and
ostracizing people affected by poverty and how this ideology plays a crucial role
in continuing the cycle of poverty.
Student: Tori M.
Mentor: Natasha Pilipuf-Ruiz
Service Learning: Poplar Creek Prairie Center
Description: exploring the role that ecofeminism plays in addressing structures of injustice
that further division, hierarchy, and domination, particularly towards woman and nature,
and highligting ecofeminist strategies for shifting perspectives and redefining what
it means to connect to nature.