76 courses with the subject PCS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
Explore sources of conflict, war, social oppression, and violence and the challenges of promoting peace and justice. Examine the strategies for introducing equitable and nonviolent methods for conflict transformation.
Designed to provide a cross-disciplinary examination of violence and peace. Students will be engaged in an exploration of world issues and their impact at the local level.
The course explores the role of social conflict in the American democratic process. Through exploring primary and secondary texts about social conflict in the founding and development of American democracy students interrogate the way in which social conflict has been a pro-social force for progress and change.
Examine the theory, practice, and narrative of conflict transformation. Transformative models, locally and globally, are explored and, the process of ending destructive action and promoting constructive change are engaged.
Through the study and application of multiple theories, principles, and skills, students will learn about methods and processes for managing conflict in professional contexts.
This course surveys the basic practical and theoretical foundations of peace and conflict transformation. The basic theories of conflict transformation provide a framework for understanding the dynamics of practice.
Explores the causes of interpersonal and inter-group tensions and the techniques (micro-level processes) to address them effectively whether in the workplace, community, or at home.
Critical multiculturalism provides the framework for exploring multiple dimensions of diversity and its impact on creating and transforming conflicts. The impact of cultural interactions is a core focus.
This course is an introduction to qualitative, quantitative and mixed method research from social, organizational and conflict perspectives. Emphasis is placed on research design, question formulation, sampling, recruiting, data analysis and practical research activity.
This course examines the practical and theoretical approaches to evaluating and remediating organizational conflict. Organizational analysis techniques and internal dispute resolution systems are explored.
Theories, methods, and practices in assessing and transforming conflict in modern organizations.
This course will investigate local peace-building and sustainable development within diverse political, cultural and economic contexts. It explores models for collective action toward non-violent conflict and positive peace.
Interdisciplinary exploration of models that address social, economic, environmental justice concerns and their impact on community, economic, and environmental sustainability.
Concepts such as peace, conflict, violence, war, international order, state actors, non-state actors, power, international law, international organization, terrorism, conflict management, political economy and peacebuilding, among others are examined based on particular contemporary conflict cases.
Explore transitional justice mechanisms (local, national, and international tribunals, truth commissions, memorials, and reparation regimes) that are oriented towards the restoration of relationships damaged by crime, war, and community violence.
War and morality are concerns within the theoretical framework of peace and conflict studies, providing the base for practice as viewed within an historical and cultural context.
This course explores the complexity of engaging local and global peace and conflict practice (macro-level process) that enhances the building and nurturing of civic society in the 21st century.
Through a directed learning experience in a practicum setting, students engage with communities through entry level practices and engaged inquiry experiences reflecting on the field of Peace and Conflict Studies.
Emphasis is placed upon extended application and evaluation in the practice or research environment. Continues critical review and analysis of setting for engagement.
Introduction to the interdisciplinary theory, research, and intervention strategies used in peacebuilding operations.
Final capstone course in which students integrate theory, models of practice and research/evaluation through a community based project documented with an electronic portfolio for presentation.
An investigation of current Global North and Pan-Western peace and conflict models and their impact on human security and humanitarian assistance.
Nonviolent protest has an important role to play in the 21st century for achieving justice, assuring human rights, and removing repressive regimes. The course considers the theory and practice of successful nonviolent movements such as the Liberian women's peace movement, the Velvet Revolution, and the outing of Serbian dictator Milosevic.
Overview of critical incident response, management and resolution in relation to individual, family, community, and organizational perspectives.
Contemporary issues in food and water systems are examined using the lens of conflict transformation. Through this lens, we will analyze associated social and environmental conflicts, with an emphasis on dynamics of power and justice. Students will learn about transformative interventions associated with the conflicts we cover in class.
Examines the principles and practices of restorative justice, evaluating the potentials and limitations of restorative methods and interventions in the US and internationally.
Explores reconciliation and spiritual beliefs in community settings to address local and global conflicts. Includes discussion of both indigenous beliefs and global social, political, and environmental consciousness in healing.
Independent study opportunity for students to engage in an in-depth exploration of a topic of special interest within the context of Peace and Conflict Studies.
The role that sports play in reflecting political, religious, ethnoracial, and social class conflicts is explored. The possibilities for using sports to teach skills for peaceful transformation are examined.
Explore ecocultures as sustainable models of peacebuilding and as alternatives to the dominant approach to global development. Through a study of the four dimensions of regenerative sustainability, students will examine how ecocultures, including traditional communities and contemporary ecovillages, are designed to nurture healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities and ecosystems.
In this capstone course for the PCS Forced Migration and Refugee Resettlement Studies minor students will immerse themselves in refugee/migrant/asylum seeker support history, networks, and service-providers as well as engage in the work of promoting access and integration for refugees through community engaged learning, service, and research.
An overview of conflict analysis and intervention strategies in religious communities and organizations. Analyze and implement models of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Explores the use of borders/partitions by providing historical perspective on the dynamics of redrawing territorial space. Memories of these "sovereign" territorial displacements are interrogated to understand conflict systems.
Approaches to community and peacebuilding, with emphasis on understanding power and conflict, are taught within a global context. Strategies are developed for building peace and community through civic engagement.
Course will explore international human rights norms, laws, theory and practice, with an emphasis on analytical and advocacy skills. Current debates in the field will be explored with implications for policy.
Examines the role of gender, sex, diversity, and power relations in the creation and resolution of conflict and building of peace.
Peace building and conflict resolution in health care and humanitarian initiatives; human rights and social justice perspective.
Interdisciplinary engagement of social entrepreneurship as model for change on an issue of environmental sustainability. Exploration of models that respond to social, economic, environmental, and justice issues.
Examines the role of gender, sex, diversity, and power relations in the creation and resolution of conflict and building of peace.
Introduction to the interdisciplinary theory, research conflict analysis and intervention strategies which form the foundation of peace and conflict studies.
Explores multiple dimensions of diversity in creating and resolving conflicts. Students will explore their own culture beliefs and values as well as diverse conflict models and systems around the world.
Theory and practice to develop a foundation of interpersonal skills and techniques needed by conflict professionals such as communication, negotiation, mediation, assessment, and presentation. Service learning project required.
Theories, methods, and practices in assessing and transforming conflict in modern organizations.
Students are introduced to key conflict analysis concepts and models. Different analytic frameworks are used to assess internaitonal conflicts. Students participate simulation exercise.
Concepts such as peace, conflict, violence, war, international order, state actors, non-state actors, power, international law, international organization, terrorism, conflict management, political economy and peacebuilding, among others are examined based on particular contemporary conflict cases.
After exploration of qualitative, quantitative, mixed-method, and action research philosophy and methods. Teams of students design an action research proposal.
Explore nonviolent responses to conflict and violence that are oriented to the restoration of relationships damaged by crime, war, community, and workplace violence.
Introduction to key principles, functions, and institutions to develop enhanced governance in conflict environments worldwide. Exploration of concepts, contextual frameworks, and programs to provide assistance in conflict environments.
Exploration of the mission, roles, and responsibilities of civil-military interaction teams in their collaboration to assess, design, and implement interventions to stabilize conflict environments after violent encounters.
Through contemporary case studies, this course examines how senior civilian and military leaders and their supporting organizations analyze conditions and identify challenges in civil military engagement in conflict environments.
War and morality are concerns within the theoretical framework of peace and conflict studies, providing the base for practice as viewed within an historical and cultural context.
A critical introduction to the histories, theories, research, analytic frameworks, and intervention strategies, which form the foundation of peace and conflict studies.
Address intrapersonal, interpersonal, and group conflict. Learn to build positive peace through nonviolent communication, principled negotiation, mediation, conciliation, and group facilitation. Develop skills of collaborative decision-making and nonviolent conflict transformation.
Explore qualitative research methods, community-engaged research, and action research. Learn to collect, analyze, and interpret qualitative data. Develop fieldwork skills, design a research proposal, and conduct research using qualitative methods.
Explores justice as transformative, transnational, environmental, transitional, and restorative in nature; engages with issues of post-colonial/post-conflict development, reconciliation, and civil society-based peacebuilding as sustainable human endeavors.
Explores conflict resolution theory, practice, and programming in educational settings and community organizations. Peer, professional, and systemic conflicts will be examined.
An investigation of current Global North and Pan-Western peace and conflict models and their impact on human security and humanitarian assistance.
Introduces students to the theory and practice of nonviolence as a manner of social change and as a philosophy. Explores classic thinking on nonviolence by Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. as well as current research on nonviolent social change.
Overview of critical incident response, management and resolution in relation to individual, family, community, and organizational perspectives.
Contemporary issues at the nexus of food and water systems are examined using the lens of conflict transformation. Through this lens, we will analyze associated social and environmental conflicts, with an emphasis on dynamics of power and justice. Students will learn about transformative interventions associated with the conflicts we cover in class.
Examines the principles and practices of restorative justice, evaluating the potentials and limitations of restorative methods and interventions in the US and internationally.
Explores reconciliation and spiritual beliefs in community settings to address local and global conflicts. Includes discussion of both indigenous beliefs and global social, political, and environmental consciousness in healing.
Interdisciplinary exploration of models that address social, economic, environmental justice concerns and their impact on community, economic, and environmental sustainability.
Engage with negotiation and mediation practices for transforming conflict. Build from negotiation and mediation theory to strategies and tactics. Learn and apply skills.
Intensive study guided by the graduate faculty.
The role that sports play in reflecting political, religious, ethnoracial, and social class conflicts is explored. The possibilities for using sports to teach skills for peaceful transformation are examined.
Explores ecocultures as sustainable models of peacebuilding and as alternatives to the dominant approach to global development. Through a study of the four dimensions of regenerative sustainability, students will examine how ecocultures, including traditional communities and contemporary ecovillages, are designed to nurture healthy, resilient, and sustainable communities and ecosystems.
Overview of conflict analysis and intervention strategies in religious communities and organizations. Analyze and implement models of reconciliation and forgiveness.
Explores the use of borders/partitions by providing historical perspective on the dynamics of redrawing territorial space. Memories of these "sovereign" territorial displacements are interrogated to understand conflict systems.
Approaches to community and peacebuilding, with emphasis on understanding power and conflict, are taught within a global context. Strategies are developed for building peace and community through civic engagement.
Course will explore international human rights norms, laws, theory and practice, with an emphasis on analytical and advocacy skills. Current debates in the field will be explored with implications for policy.
Examines the role of gender, sex, diversity, and power relations in the creation and resolution of conflict and building of peace.
Peace building and conflict resolution in health care and humanitarian initiatives; human rights and social justice perspective.
Final capstone course in which students integrate theory, research, and practice skills through an integrative project. Research or field hours required.
Thesis writing.
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