Peace and Conflict Studies Major
Bachelor of Arts Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies
The major requires a minimum of 32 credit hours (eight courses).
Code | Title | Credits |
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PECS 110 | Introduction to Peace & Conflict Studies | 4 |
PECS 236 | Conflict Transformation for Peacebuilding and Justice (JPS 236) | 4 |
or PECS 246 | Mediation & Conflict Intervention | |
Two 300- or 400-level PECS courses 1 | 8 | |
Facilitation Training | ||
Globalization: Economics & Social Justice | ||
Social Change: Promoting Peace | ||
Special Topics | ||
Culture, Conflict, Negotiation | ||
Independent Study | ||
Reconciliation and Justice | ||
Mediation Trainers Practicum | ||
Special Topics | ||
Designing Poli Research | ||
Independent Study | ||
Religion, Spirituality and Social Change | ||
Senior Thesis | ||
Departmental Honors | ||
Internship 2 | ||
Senior Seminar | ||
Any two additional PECS courses or approved Interdisciplinary-elective courses 3 | 8 | |
Voices of Liberation | ||
Special Topics | ||
Mediation Training | ||
Challenges of Global Democratization (PSCI 206) | ||
War and Peace in the Middle East | ||
Peacebuilding in Divided Societies | ||
Mediation & Conflict Intervention | ||
Special Topics | ||
Independent Study | ||
Internship | ||
Human Rights | ||
Nonviolence: Theories and Practice | ||
Total Credits | 24 |
- 1
Must be taken at Guilford.
- 2
Taken in the junior or senior year; builds on a student’s prior coursework and incorporates peace and conflict studies analysis with site work.
- 3
Offered by other departments and contribute to the global, social or personal/interpersonal levels of peace and conflict analysis.
Interdisciplinary-Elective Courses
Global
Code | Title | Credits |
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HIST 238 | War and Peace: 20th-Century Europe, 1914-1999 | 4 |
HIST 255 | The Second World War | 4 |
IDS 435 | Understanding Poverty | 4 |
PHIL 249 | Pacifism and Just War Theory | 4 |
PSCI 275 | Asia and the World | 4 |
PSCI 305 | Politics of Gender | 4 |
PSCI 345 | Avoiding War, Making Peace | 4 |
PSCI 367 | Violence and Politics | 4 |
PSCI 391 | Globalization and Its Discontents | 4 |
SOAN 216 | HP:The Anthropology of Colonialism | 4 |
Social
Code | Title | Credits |
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HIST 215 | The Civil Rights Movement | 4 |
HIST 308 | The Underground Railroad | 4 |
JPS 220 | Community Building and Organizing | 4 |
Personal/Interpersonal
Code | Title | Credits |
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JPS 319 | Trust & Violence | 4 |
JPS 325 | Family Violence | 4 |
Total credit hours required for A.B. degree in peace and conflict studies is 32 credits