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Peace Studies

Key to Course Offerings
Q: designates courses in the Quantitative Scientific Cluster
I: the Ideas and Events Cluster
B: the Human Behavior Cluster
L: the Literature, Language and Arts Cluster
C: Multicultural
IDIS: Interdisciplinary courses
Multicultural and interdisciplinary courses also fulfill a cluster designation.
* Asterisk indicates that the course may be offered less than once every two years.
Day Undergraduate Day School
Eve Undergraduate Evening School
  Courses having a more narrow focus than those taught on a regular basis of courses being taught on an experimental basis can be taught as Topics courses. These courses will be assigned numbers based on the student level for which they are intended-first, second, third or fourth year.

Introduction to Peace Studies

IDIS 1900 3 cr. 3 hr.

In this introduction, the field of Peace Studies, an inter-disciplinary approach, the students will explore conflict-its origins, management, ramifications, and attempts to move beyond it. Conflict will be explored on the individual, group, national, and international levels. I, IDIS

Dilemmas of Peace and War

IDIS 2100 3 cr. 3 hr. Day Evening

I, L, C, IDIS

Origins of Conflict Electives

IDIS 1200 Intro to International Studies
IDIS 1800 Global Issues
ECON 2500 Economic Development
SOC 2500 Race and Ethnic Relations
SOC 2600 Sociology of Developing Societies
SOC 3000 Social Stratification
POLS 2200 International Relations
POLS 3800 Third World Politics, Economics and Society
PSY 2250 Psychology of Women
PSY 2400 Psychology of Captivity

Vision of Peace Electives

PHIL 3610 World Religions
PSY 2370 Interpersonal Effectiveness
PSY 2550 Group Dynamics
PSY 2570 Small Group Leadership
SOC 2250 Cultural Anthropology