Peace and Conflict Studies Concentration
The Peace and Conflict Studies concentration is a multidisciplinary program for students who wish to complement their major field of study with courses focused on the causes of war and social conflict, and ways of preventing and ending them. The concentration combines in-depth study of one or more wars with an examination of common causes of conflict such as economic disparities and religious, ethnic, racial, or gender discrimination. It also demands engagement with moral and ethical questions about the circumstances under which the use of violence can be justified.
Requirements
To complete the concentration, a total of six courses is necessary from the lists below, representing at least three disciplines. Students can choose between two concentration tracks: Peace and Conflict Studies or Peace and Conflict Studies/Social Justice. See the Peace and Conflict Studies website for more details about the guidelines for the concentration.
Students must take at least one course in each of three categories listed below. No more than two courses from your other plan(s) of study may be counted toward your concentration. No more than two Study Abroad courses, with the director's permission, can be counted for concentration credit.
Code | Title |
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Ethical and philosophical courses: | |
Mediation: Theory & Practice | |
Seeking Justice | |
TheClassics&Conflict in the US | |
Pain & Suffering: US History | |
Ethics-Military Profession | |
Philosophical Anthropology | |
Justice and Power | |
Human Rights | |
Humanitarianism | |
Ethics and International Relations | |
Science, Medicine & the Holocaust | |
Contemporary Christian Morality | |
Social Ethics | |
Conflicts in the Church | |
Modern Religious Movements | |
Religion and Violence | |
Liberation Theology | |
Sexual Justice:Social Ethics | |
Holocaust: Confronting Evil | |
20Th/21st Century Russian Literature | |
Contemporary/modern large scale conflict courses: | |
The Holocaust | |
Lincoln, Civil War, & Memory | |
Napoleon to the European Union | |
World War II in East Asia | |
Civil War and Reconstruction | |
Th Civil Rights Movement | |
War & Chivalry in Medieval France | |
French Rebels & Revolutionaries | |
Imperial Russia/East & West | |
Soviet Experiment | |
The Soviet Union After Stalin | |
Eur:Mass Polit/Tot War 1890-1945 | |
Europe & Superpowers:1939-1991 | |
Germany in Age of Nationalism | |
Germany:Dictatorship/Democracy | |
The Indians' New World: Native American History 1 | |
Native American History II | |
Imperial China | |
Modern China | |
HIST 290 | |
South Africa & Apartheid | |
Crafted by War:Med Eng to 1485 | |
Cultures of Cold War | |
Collapse of Communism | |
Rebels & Radical Thinkers | |
Germans, Jews and Memory | |
Resistance & Rev in Mod Africa | |
Palestinian-Israeli Conflict | |
Twentieth Century Novel & World War 2 | |
Sea Power | |
Introduction to International Relations | |
The Constitution in Wartime | |
Latin American Politics | |
African Politics | |
International Peace | |
Politics of the Middle East | |
China from Mao to Market | |
East Asia in World Politics | |
American Foreign Policy | |
National Security Policy | |
Political Violence | |
Structural causes of violence and conflict courses: | |
Informal Economies | |
Cultures and Politics of Latin America | |
Anthropology of Africa | |
Global Queer Activism | |
Community Engagement and Social Responsibility | |
Health and Development | |
Ideological Destruction of Art | |
Topics in Conflict Economics | |
EDUC 232 | |
African American Literature | |
Topics in Composition | |
Food, Power, & Environment | |
Colonial Latin America | |
Modern Latin America | |
African Colonial Lives | |
Modern Africa Since 1800 | |
Slavery, Industry, Empire 1815-60 | |
United States in the 20th Century 1 | |
US in 20C II 1945-Present | |
Hist of Capitalism: US & World | |
Radicalism in America | |
HIST 227 | |
The Asian American Experience | |
HIST 267 | |
U.S. Mexican Border | |
Afro-Latin America | |
Raza e Identidad | |
America's Colony: Puerto Rico since 1898 | |
Modern India | |
Making Modrn MidEast 19th Century | |
Making of the Mod Mid East II | |
From Blues to Rap | |
Music & Gay Rights | |
Latin American Politics | |
Politics of Development | |
European Politics | |
Power & Protest: A View From Below | |
African Politics | |
South Asian Politics | |
Democratization and Women's Rights | |
Women, War, and Violence | |
Psychology of Stigma | |
Writing Under Stalin | |
Race & Power | |
Social Class & Power | |
Consumer & Corp Sustainability | |
Race, Crime, and Justice | |
SOCL 230 | |
Girls and Violence | |
Children & Violence | |
Freedoms & Unfreedoms | |
(Precarious) Work | |
SOCL 361 | |
Topics in African Cinema | |
Courses - no category but are PCON electives | |
Cultures and Politics of Latin America | |
The Black Urban Experience | |
Britain & Empire since 1901 | |
America's First Global Age | |
War and Cinema | |
Music of Peace and Conflict | |
Global Governance | |
International Law | |
Refugees | |
Contemp Catholic Spirituality |