Intersectional Justice Facilitator

PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATE - The Intersectional Justice Facilitator program equips participants with critical social justice language/skills and a thorough understanding of the various intersecting systems of oppression harming communities.
The certificate consists of two required courses, two electives, and an internship with a community organization. Participants who complete the program will be able to use/implement this knowledge in the various educational or workplace spaces they occupy as we all work towards collective equity and liberation.

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This Program is Perfect For...

...any student committed to the broader principles of intersectional justice, and most impactful for students of historically marginalized communities with a political lens to living, being, and organizing. This will help undergraduate students who are thinking about graduate school, but may not be confident enough yet. This can also support students who are planning careers in higher education, teaching, or grassroots and non-profit community organizing.

What you'll learn...

Interculturality

Structural Understanding of Intersectionality

Third World/Liberatory Solidarity (networks)

Indigeneity/Indigenous liberatory practices

Critical Feminisms

Queer Theory

Policing and Prison Industrial Complex

Decolonization

Understanding Anti-Blackness, what black scholars articulate as being black in an anti-black world, in internalized, interpersonal, and systemic forms

Courses

Note regarding the Intersectional Justice Facilitator program for the 2024-2025 Academic Year:

The Intersectional Justice Facilitator program is on hold for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. We will have an update in the Spring about the program's future.

Courses

Required PaCE Courses	Units	Fall	Winter	Spring	Summer
INT X415 Introduction to Intersectional Justice	4
INT X416 Application and Facilitation of Intersectional Justice	4
Online In Person - UCSB / HyFlex

Required UCSB Electives	Units	Fall	Winter	Spring	Summer
BUSAD X435 - Foundations of Business Leadership	8
Online In Person - UCSB / HyFlex

Important Course Information
Certificate Eligibility and Requirements Students can substitute up to 4 quarter units toward an elective on the list. A substitution can be from UCSB or transferred from another accredited university. Substitutions must be approved by the Department of Social Sciences and must be taken within the last 5 years Minimum of 16 total units to complete this professional certificate. Earn no less than a "C" in any particular course to be eligible for the certificate INT X415 must be taken before INT X416

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Interested students must apply to be accepted into this program by completing an application. Please check back in Fall 2025 for new application submissions.

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Pricing

	UCSB Students
Individual Courses	$250
Certificate Fee	$45
Estimated Certificate Cost	$545

3 Easy Steps to Request Certificate

1 Log into your PaCE Student Account to verify that you have completed all Certificate requirements

2 Click here to request your certificate release

3 Check your email for a Certificate notification from Parchment.com, our official credential provider.