Degree Requirements
The minor in Peace and Social Justice Studies requires a minimum of five (5) course credits, as follows:
Required Core Courses
| PSJ 100 | Fnd of Peace & Social Justice | 1 Course Credit |
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| PSJ 113 | Mediation & Negotiation (COM) | 1 Course Credit |
| PSJ 205 | Peace/Justice:Theory/Practice | 1 Course Credit |
Required PSJ Distribution Courses
Three (3) additional elective course credits, one chosen form each of three different categories:
Area I: Building Peace
In order to build peaceful and just systems and societies, these courses examine the dynamics of human communication and political structures.
| COM 206 | Interpersonal Communication | 1 Course Credit |
| COM 207 | Intercultural Communication | 1 Course Credit |
| COM 305/AFR 305 | Interracial Communication(AFR) | 1 Course Credit |
| PSJ 305 | Conflict Transformation | 1 Course Credit |
| PSC 250 | International Relations | 1 Course Credit |
| PSC 351 | International Organizations | 1 Course Credit |
| PSC 355 | Foreign Policy Analysis | 1 Course Credit |
| COM 395 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
| COM 495 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
| PSC 395 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
| PSC 495 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
| PSJ 395 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
| PSJ 495 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
| SOC 395 | Internship | 1/2 to 3 Course Credits |
| SOC 495 | Internship | 1 to 3 Course Credits |
Area II: Social, Economic and Environmental Justice
These courses emphasize conditions for a just and sustainable peace, distribution of power, status and resources in society and how issues of discrimination affect the vulnerable populations and how advocates can work in the political arena, including access to food and clean drinking water, education for women and children, economics structures and systems address poverty, ways societies have thought about and portrayed women, and the impact these views have had on women's roles in society, and other human rights (positive peace).
Area III: Religious, Philosophical and Cultural Influences on Peace
These courses offer tools for thinking about justice and injustice through the lens of religious and philosophical modes of reflection on contemporary issues that impact class, race, ethnic and gender groups, and thorough ethical discernment that is informed by both social theory (i.e., analysis of class, race and gender systems) and religious and philosophical traditions, help students explore the connections between the philosophical theories they read and the societal problems they witness.