Peace and Justice Studies Concentration

The Peace and Justice Studies Concentration offers an interdisciplinary program examining conditions for bringing about a just and peaceful world order. The field of Peace and Justice Studies relates scholarship to practice and challenges those who engage in it to develop new ways of thinking and acting in the world. The concentration complements and builds upon other academic areas to prepare a student for graduate studies or service following graduation; and to deepen a student's liberal arts education. Students from any major may earn a Peace and Justice Studies Concentration.

Six units are required. The group of courses used to meet the requirements of the concentration must contain at least three units which are not used to satisfy the student's major requirements. Each course may fulfill no more than two requirements (major, concentration, or INQ). Each academic year before spring registration, a list of electives for the following year, including courses not listed below, will be advertised by email, posted on fliers, and available through the concentration coordinator.

Required Course:

(1 Unit)

• PEAC 201 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies

Elective Courses:

(Five Units, of which, a maximum of three may be in one division: humanities, social sciences, or sciences. If taking PEAC 406 or PEAC 416, remaining electives must be in two or more divisions):

• CJUS/POLI 214 Judicial Process
• CJUS 253 Criminal Justice Policy
• CJUS 326/ SOCI 326 Comparative Corrections
• COMM 360 Studies in Intercultural Communication
• ECON 237 Comparative Economic Systems
• ECON 267 Labor Economics
• ENGL 312 Studies in the Cross-Cultural Imagination
• HIST 262 U.S. Women's History
• HIST 246/RELG 246 The Holocaust
• PEAC 406 Independent Study
• PEAC 416 Peace and Justice Internship
• PHIL 205 Moral Philosophy
• PHIL 206 Social Philosophy
• PHIL 212 Environmental Philosophy
• POLI 232 International Organizations
• POLI 251 Environmental Public Policy
• POLI 252 Human Rights Policy
• POLI 333 Global Political Economy
• RELG 220 Christian Ethics
• SOCI 215 Social Movements
• SOCI 224 Race and Ethnicity
• SOCI 234 Social Problems
• SOCI 327 Sociology of Religion
• SOCI 335 Global Population Problems
• SOCI 429 Gender Violence
• SOCI 337 Environmental Sociology
• SOCI 424 Gender and Development