Course Listings
Peace and Justice Studies
Minor in Peace and Justice Studies
See also the major in Peace, Justice and Conflict studies (PJCS) and the minor in Conflict Studies.
19 credit hours
- PJCS 325 Mediation:Process, Skills, Theory3-4
- PJCS 410 Senior Advanced Work1
- Choose five courses:15
- BIBL 321 Biblical Themes of Peace
- PJCS 201 Violence and Nonviolence
- PJCS 202 Spiritual Path of Peacemaking
- PJCS 210 Transforming Conflict and Violence
- PJCS 220 Inside Out:
- PJCS 310 Issues in PJCS
- PJCS 332 Religion, Conflict and Peace
- PJCS 347 Restorative Justice
- PJCS 350 Dynamics/Theology of Reconciliation
- PJCS 360 Designing for Social Change
- PJCS 370 Personal Violence and Healing
- PJCS 425 War and Peace in the Modern World
- PJCS 426 Conflict-Healthy Groups
Note: PJCS 325, PJCS 202 PX, PJCS 347, and PJCS 370 are offered every other year.
Student learning outcomes
Students with a minor in Peace and Justice Studies will:
- Develop and apply skills for nonviolent ways of responding to personal conflict.
- Identify, analyze, and address various forms of violence, from interpersonal through structural.
- Demonstrate and apply knowledge of conflict and communication theory, process, and skills in personal and institutional settings.
Advising note
May be combined with any major except PJCS. PJCS 325 and PJCS 347 rotate every other year.
PJCS 325 Mediation:Process, Skills, Theory
Focuses on the third party role of the mediator. Explores the theoretical basis for mediation, its various applications in North America, and critiques of the appropriateness of mediation for certain types of conflicts. Emphasis will be on experiential learning to...
PJCS 410 Senior Advanced Work
A written project in which seniors with a Peace and Justice minor or a Conflict Transformation minor reflect on the relationship between their academic major and what they learned in their PJCS courses.