Interested in poverty, inequality and social justice?
All interested students must submit an online application to be considered for the minor. Students must apply for this minor during their second-to-last year at UCSB.
The application window for the 2025/26 academic year will open during Winter Quarter 2025. The application deadline will be posted in January. The link to the application will be posted on the Blum Center website HERE.
Hoping to pursue these interests through interdisciplinary coursework and concrete efforts to make change?
The Minor in Poverty, Inequality and Social Justice provides students with the tools to understand the structural and political roots, dynamics and consequences of poverty and inter-sectional inequality; conduct original research; and engage meaningfully in efforts to address poverty through policy, practice and social action. The Minor is offered through the Department of History and is interdisciplinary in scope. It is affiliated with the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy.
Core components include a gateway course on poverty, inequality and social justice in historical and global context, three upper division electives chosen from an interdisciplinary range of fields, an internship and a capstone course. Click to view the minor requirements in the general catalog.
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Minor Restriction
Students that declare a minor in Poverty, Inequality, and Social Justice CANNOT simultaneously declare a minor in Labor Studies. Only one of these minors can be pursued, as they are both housed in the History department.