Course Catalog - Peace and Conflict Studies
PCON 130 - Introduction to Peace & Conflict Studies
Annually
An introduction to the study of war, peace, and peacemaking. Surveys the topics, methods and perspectives involved in the study of violence and nonviolence, as well as of building a more peaceful world. Aims to increase students’ awareness of the sources of violence and other forms of destructive attitudes and behavior, and to challenge them to search for more appropriate ways of building peace. One unit.
PCON 216 - US Intelligence Community
Annually
Considers the scope and nature of U.S. intelligence agencies, traces the development of U.S. intelligence from WW II to the present, and examines the ethical implications of intelligence activity and the inherent tension between secret intelligence and democracy.
PCON 231 - Military & Society
Annually
Looks at different ways societies prepare to wage war. Discussion concentrates on the interaction between military and civilian institutions, as well as on social construction of military thought. Conflict studies range from limited wars of pre-industrial and early industrial era to global confrontations of the last century. Also examines those military conflicts where participants belong to entities other than state (terrorist organizations, guerilla movements, etc). Includes a detailed account of the increasingly common use of mercenaries by the armed forces of developed countries, changing social attitudes to civilian and military casualties, evolving roles of women in the military, and implications of the current revolution in military affairs. Taught from a comparative historical perspective. One unit.
PCON 291 - Nazi & Postwar German Cinema
Alternate years
Films produced during the Third Reich played a crucial role in the mass culture of that regime. Course examines selected films made during that time as well as cinematic representations of the Hitler years during postwar period to show how German film makers tried to come to terms with the Nazi past of the their country. In English. One unit.
PCON 292 - German Resistance to Hitler
Alternate years
Explores the various forms of German resistance to Hitler during the Third Reich (1933 – 1945) and discusses the difficulties such opposition faced in a totalitarian regime. Against the backdrop of the Hitler dictatorship the many forms of resistance in the Third Reich are discussed, ranging from whispered joke to a full-fledged coup d’etat in 1944 by the Stauffenberg circle. In English. One unit
ECON 316 - Economics of Peace, Conflict & Defense
HIST 101 - American Themes: Struggles for Justice
HIST 101 - American Themes: WW II on the Home Front
HIST 223 - Radicalism in America
HIST 255 - Europe: Mass Politics & Total War 1890-1945
HIST 261 - Germany in an Age of Nationalism
HIST 262 - Germany from Dictatorship to Democracy
HIST 271 - American Indian History 1
HIST 272 - American Indian History 2
HIST 282 - Revolutionary China
HIST 290 - Vietnam: More than an American War
HIST 322 - War & Cinema
HIST 324 - Italy & France: War and Resistance
HIST 325 - War/Women/Holocaust/Resistance
HIST 361 - Germans, Jews, and Memory
PCON 130 - Introduction to Peace & Conflict Studies
PCON 216 - U.S. Intelligence Community
PCON 231 - Military & Society
PCON 291 - Nazi & Postwar German Cinema
PCON 292 - German Resistance to Hitler
PHIL 274 - Philosophical Anthropology
POLS 103 - Introduction to International Relations
POLS 218 - Revolutionary China
POLS 251 - Latin American Politics
POLS 257 - Politics of Development
POLS 269 - Power & Politics/A View from Below
POLS 272 - Politics of the Middle East
POLS 274 - Nationalism
POLS 284 - Human Rights
POLS 320 - Seminar on Political Violence
POLS 332 - Seminar: Imperialism
POLS 333 - Ethics & International Relations
RELS 143 - Social Ethics
RELS 151 - Faith & World Poverty
RELS 275 - Latin American Liberation Theology
RELS 376 - North American Theology of Liberation
SOCL 205 - Structures of Social Inequality
SOCL 217 - Criminology
SOCL 259 - Children & Violence
SOCL 265 - Sociology of Work & Labor
STWL 235 - Introduction to Postcolonial Discourses
For details on the above courses, please see the respective departmental listings.
* The courses listed above are taken directly from the official College Catalog.