Bachelor of Arts Degree in Peace and Conflict Studies

The major requires a minimum of 32 credit hours (eight courses).

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
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
PECS 301	Facilitation Training
PECS 316	Globalization: Economics & Social Justice
PECS 345	Social Change: Promoting Peace
PECS 350	Special Topics
PECS 355	Culture, Conflict, Negotiation
PECS 360	Independent Study
PECS 363	Reconciliation and Justice
PECS 401	Mediation Trainers Practicum
PECS 450	Special Topics
PECS 460	Independent Study
PECS 468	Religion, Spirituality and Social Change
PECS 470	Senior Thesis
PECS 490	Departmental Honors
PECS 390	Internship 2
PECS 465	Senior Seminar
Any two additional PECS courses or approved Interdisciplinary-elective courses 3		8
PECS 103	Voices of Liberation
PECS 150	Special Topics
PECS 201	Mediation Training
PECS 206	Challenges of Global Democratization (PSCI 206)
PECS 215	War and Peace in the Middle East
PECS 235	Peacebuilding in Divided Societies
PECS 246	Mediation & Conflict Intervention
PECS 250	Special Topics
PECS 260	Independent Study
PECS 290	Internship
PECS 315	Human Rights
PECS 330	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

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
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

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
HIST 215	The Civil Rights Movement	4
HIST 308	The Underground Railroad	4
JPS 220	Community Building and Organizing	4

Personal/Interpersonal

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
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