The Masters of Arts in Social Justice Studies is a 2-year interdisciplinary program designed to deliver a transformative education. Students are challenged to think critically about the values, cultural assumptions, and actions that maintain the current economic, political, and social structures which shape our day-to-day lives. Lakehead’s program empowers students with the practical skills and theoretical knowledge necessary to question the informal and formal configurations of power and oppression within local, national, and global contexts. Students can pursue one of four streams – a course-based degree, a practicum, a creative project, or a research project.

Located within the territories of the Anishinaabe peoples, Lakehead’s Social Justice program allows students to focus on Indigenous issues and the North. Graduates of the program will possess a broad range of skills and competencies that position them to pursues careers that support social justice or continue further graduate studies at the Doctoral level.