This is the preliminary (or launch) version of the 2024-2025 VCU Bulletin. Courses that expose students to cutting-edge content and transformative learning may be added and notification of additional program approvals may be received prior to finalization. General education program content is also subject to change. The final edition and full PDF version will include these updates and will be available in August prior to the beginning of the fall semester.

Student learning outcomes

Upon completing this program, students will know how to do the following:

Program core outcomes

  • Demonstrate strong critical thinking skills that connect theory to action
  • Employ multiple theories informed by intersectionality
  • Demonstrate critical engagement with multiple epistemologies and methods of research
  • Articulate the ways diverse feminisms converge and diverge in the 21st century
  • Articulate contexts for intellectual, academic and artistic activism

Health, society and social justice concentration-specific outcome

  • Demonstrate critical engagement with the socio-political aspects of what constitutes health and wellness