program requirements

The major offers a rich curriculum focused on theory and skills of peacemaking, the achievement of justice and the protection of human rights, and national development.

The major requires 36 credit hours: six required Foundational courses (listed below) and six elective courses (18 credit hours), with two courses selected from each of the three focal areas. Please reference the Undergraduate Bulletin for full course descriptions and for additional information on the major and Justice and Peace minor. 

Required Courses:

1. CMST 3011: Communication and Conflict
2. ECON 4070:  Economics and Ethics
3. INJP 2010:  Introduction to Peace Studies
4. INJP 4997: Capstone Seminar in Peace Studies
5. PHIL 3710:  Political Theory
6. THEO 2500:  Theology, Violence and Nonviolence

Focal Areas:

• Focal Area 1: Peace Building - choose two courses (6 credits)
  
  

  CMST 3410	Intercultural Communication
  CRLS 4660	Criminal Violence in America
  HIST 3118	American Military History
  HIST 4320	United States-Latin American Relations
  LAW 7983	Restorative Justice Clinic (with permission)
  PHIL 4320	Contemporary Ethical Problems
  POSC 4631	World Conflict and Security
  POSC 4721	International Politics of the Middle East
  POSC 4731	International Politics of Asia
  POSC 4741	United States-Latin American Relations
  THEO 4490	Studies in Moral Theology (Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Justice)
  THEO 4530	Islam: Faith and Peace

  
  
• Focal Area 2: Power Justice, and Human Rights - choose two courses (6 credits)
  
  

  ENGL 4810	Race, Ethnicity, and Identity in American Literature and Culture
  ENGL 4820	Studies in Race and/or Ethnic Literature
  HIST 4600	Comparative Twentieth-Century Genocides
  POSC 2801	Justice and Power
  POSC 4601	International Law
  PSYC 3201	Introductory Social Psychology
  PSYC 3210	The Psychology of Prejudice
  SOWJ 3450	Arab and Muslim Americans
  THEO 4400	Christian Faith and Justice
  THEO 4490	Studies in Moral Theology (Martin, Malcolm, and Baldwin)

  
  
• Focal Area 3: Social and Economic Development - choose two courses (6 credits)
  

  ECON 4048	The Russian Economy
  PHIL 3350	Philosophy of the Environment
  PHYS 1009	Earth and Environmental Physics
  POSC 4561	Politics of the Developing World
  POSC 4611	International Organization
  POSC 4661	The Political Economy of Development
  SOCI 4400	Social Inequality
  SOWJ 3400	Advocacy and Social Change Theory and Practice
  SOWJ 4600	Faith-based Activism