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The field of transformative justice is intended to build alternatives to our current justice systems, break generational cycles of violence within our communities and families, and address, reduce, end and prevent violence from happening. Students graduating from Curry College with a degree in Transformative Justice will be prepared for a variety of careers in human services, organizing, non-profit, and/or human rights as advocates and assisting in interventions for those who have been harmed or are in crisis.
The Transformative Justice major at Curry will allow students to understand how harm and violence create obligations and needs within communities, and that in order to break longstanding patterns of violence, the response must both hold those who create the harm accountable while facilitating healing for individuals and communities. While recognizing that reform of current criminal justice practices and systems is important and much needed for harm reduction, transformative justice focuses on the critical role of community responses to harm, violence and/or abuse. This is based on the core belief that there are limits to how much healing the official justice system can provide, and there may be more possibility for transformation in our communities through grassroots forces than through the government.
The Transformative Justice major at Curry draws from the fields of Criminal Justice, Sociology, Social Work and Psychology. Each of these disciplines contributes to understanding the context where the work of social and transformative justice must happen.
Students will:
Transformative Justice Major Requirements and Learning Outcomes
Restorative Justice: Community and Incarceration
Resiliency Rising: Restorative Justice
Court Processes and Alternative Pathways to Justice
Crisis Intervention
Justice and Human Rights Advocacy
We offer a new, fully online 5th year Master of Arts in Criminal Justice program where undergraduate students take graduate coursework in their senior year, and can finish both degrees in five years. This program allows our students the opportunity to work academically side by side with experienced professionals in the field, as well as with our faculty experts. The newly developed fully online high-touch model allows students the best opportunity to flexibly finish their master’s degree with the same high-quality faculty mentorship they are used to in just one additional year after completing their B.A.
Just a few of the many career options include:
Ever since she was young, Serenity Perkins ‘24 has been an advocate for change. Fueled by her passion to help people in her community, within her own family, and throughout the world, she created a path that will do just that: her very own college major.
