Course Requirements for the Major

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For the PJS Major, a total of 11 courses (8 core and 3 electives) are required:

Introductory

PJS 1 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies (offered every semester)

Core Courses
One class must be taken from each category A-E.

1. War and Peace
   • SOC 120 Sociology of War and Peace
   • PS 61 Introduction to International Relations
   • ANTH 25 Anthropology of War and Peacemaking
2. Justice
   • SOC 130 Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
   • PHIL 141 Global Justice
   • ANTH 185-08 After Violence: Truth, Justice and Social Repair
   • ENG 160 Environmental Justice and U.S. Literature
   • PJS 150-06 Gender, Sexuality, and Human Rights in the Middle East
   • PJS 150-07 Race, Ethnicity and US Africa Policy
3. Violence and Peace in Culture
   • ED 164 Education for Peace and Justice
   • FAH 002 Art History from 1700 to the Present
   • RUS/ILVS/WL 91: War Stories
   • ENG 0191-05 War and American Values
   • ANTH 149-07 Practices and Politics of Knowledge in the Middle East
   • HIST 93 The Black Power Movement
   • PS 121 Political Culture in Comparative Perspective
   • PHIL 91 War and Terrorism
   • PJS 150-03 Genocide
   • PJS 150-03 Interventions in Africa: Violence & Technologies of Repair
   • PJS 150-06 War Stories
   • PJS 150-08 Peace Implementation in Bosina
   • PJS 150-09 Black Power Movement
4. Conflict Resolution
   • PJS 50 Introduction to Conflict Resolution
   • UEP 230 Negotiation, Mediation, and Conflict Resolution
5. Creating Social Change
   • SOC 111 Making Social Change Happen: Grassroots Activism and Community Organizing
   • SOC 135 Social Movements
   • CH 109 Community Action and Social Movements in Public Health
   • ANTH 27 Human Rights in Cultural Context
   • CD 143 Arts, Resilience, and Social Activism
   • HIST 128 Civil Rights Movement
   • PJS 150-02 Telling the Climate Justice Story
   • PJS 150-04 Arts, Resilience and Social Activism
   • PJS 150-07 The Arab Spring

Advanced

• PJS 099 Internship in Social Change Organizations
• PJS 190 Integrative Seminar in Peace, Justice, and Social Change
• PJS 198 Senior Thesis (May be used to replace on of required three electives; Note: students undertaking a thesis must still complete PJS 190 senior seminar)

Three electives on a particular theme will be chosen in consultation with a PJS advisor.

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