The Peace and Justice Studies Program awards a minor to majors in Politics and in a variety of other departments. To earn the minor, the Program requires completion of five courses, including an internship/fieldwork course. These may be double-counted and triple-counted for major and core requirements.
CORE COURSE (REQUIRED)
POLS 353 Politics of War and Peace
Students must take at least one course from three of the following four categories:
PEACE AND CONFLICT
- POLS 341 Nonviolence in Theory & Practice
- POLS 350 International Law & Organizations
- POLS 351 Global Conflict Resolution
- POLS 392 Feminist International Relations
- SOC 227 Violence in Society
- SOC 333 Nationalism & Citizenship
- HIST 341 Feast and Famine: a History of Food
- HIST 368 History of U.S. - China Relations
- MS 204 Media, Stereotyping, & Violence
- MS 350 Human Rights & Film
- SPAN 350 Cultures in Contact & Conflict
- ENVA 360 International Environmental Politics
SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC JUSTICE
- ECON 230 Environmental Economics
- ECON 372 Economic Development
- POLS 322 Politics of American Justice
- POLS 345 Global Economic Justice
- POLS 348 Politics & Development in Africa
- POLS 352 Human Rights & Global Change
- SOC 302 Global Inequalities & Social Justice
- SOC 304 U.S. Inequalities & Social Justice
- SOC 322 Resistance to Corporate Globalization
- SOC 325 Critical Approaches to Race & Ethnicity
- COMS 372 Communication, Disability, & Social Justice
ETHICAL APPROACHES
- POLS 317 Religion & Politics
- PHIL 308 Liberation Philosophy
- PHIL 370 Philosophy of Action
- PHIL 375 Prisons & Punishment
- PHIL 376 Philosophy of Social Justice
- THRS 318 Religious Nonviolence & the Politics of Interpretation
- THRS 361 Religion & the Environment
- THRS 384 Religion & Nonviolence
- THRS 390 Religious Ethics
- ENGL 370 Ethics, Writing, & Culture
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
- POLS 327 American Reformers & Revolutionaries
- SOC 340 Social Change
- SOC 350 Social Movements
- SOC 351 Revolution & Reaction
- SOC 390 Current Issues in Sociology
- HIST 359 The Civil Rights Movement in History & Film
- HIST 360 American Women & Political Activism
- THRS 220 Catholic Social Thought
- THRS 322 Liberation Theology
- THRS 327 Jews, Texts, & Social Justice
- PASJ 205 Theater & Social Issues
- COMS 364 Communication for Justice & Social Change
- MS 407 Alternative Media & Social Change
INTERNSHIP (REQUIRED)
- SOC 395 Fieldwork in Sociology
- ENVA 396 Environmental Studies Internship
