Peace and Global Studies (PAGS)

The Major

Students who wish to major in Peace and Global Studies may focus in one of eight areas.

All majors complete:

• PAGS 101 Introduction to Economics: Global Macroeconomics OR
  a suitable ECON 150 Earlham Seminar

• PAGS 107 Introduction to International Relations
  (for first- or second-year students) OR
  PAGS 207 Issues Before the United Nations
  (for transfer students or those selecting the major later in their college career)

• PAGS 120 Introduction to Philosophy: Peace and Justice OR
  a PHIL 150 Earlham Seminar on Peace and Justice

• PAGS 130 History and Theory of Nonviolent Movements

• PAGS 343 Conflict Resolution

• PAGS 370 Philosophy of Social Science OR
  PHIL 330 Postcolonial Theory OR
  SOAN 341 Contemporary Social Thought

• PAGS 372 International Law I:
  Sovereignty, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights OR
  POLS 371 Theories of International Relations

• PAGS 374 Methods of Peacemaking

• PAGS 481 Internship

• PAGS 486 Senior Research Project

• PAGS 488 Senior Capstone Experience

AND, in addition to the required courses,

• Three courses forming a special focus from the following options:

  1. CONFLICT TRANSFORMATION FOCUS

     • MGMT 201 Human Relations and Organizational Behavior

     • MGMT 342 Leadership in Dealing with Differences

     • SOAN 115 Culture and Conflict

     • SOAN 118 Institutions and Inequality

     • ECON 315 Marxism

     • Off-Campus Programs in Northern Ireland, the Middle East or Border Studies

  2. RELIGION AND PACIFISM FOCUS

     • REL 230 History of African American Religious Experience

     • REL 330 Criminal Justice and Moral Vision

     • REL 360 Contemporary Religious Movements

     • REL 425 Religious Responses to War and Violence

     • The following Peace and Justice Courses (PJST) are offered at Earlham School of Religion and may be taken by upper-level students with consent of the instructor:

       • HCST 220 Quaker Life

       • PJST 330 The Bible and Violence and Nonviolence

       • PJST 351 Quakers in Conflict

       • PJST 366 Liberation Theology

       • REL 350 USA Church History

       • SPST 334 Quaker Spirituality

       • THST 340 Quaker Beliefs

  3. SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS FOCUS

     • AAAS 356 The Civil Rights Movement

     • ECON 315 Marxism

     • PHIL 330 Postcolonial Theory

     • POLS 371 Theories of International Relations

     • SOAN 215 Identities and Social Movements

     • SOAN 341 Contemporary Social Thought

     • SOAN 368 The Political Economy of Development: Latin America

     • WMNS 375 Feminist Theories

  4. INTERNATIONAL WAR AND PEACE FOCUS

     • POLS 371 Theories of International Relations

     • PAGS 372 International Law I:
       Sovereignty, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

     • Two courses from:

       • HIST 347 Europe and the World Wars

       • PAGS 377 Topics in International Relations

       • PHIL 330 Postcolonial Theory

       • REL 425 Religious Responses to War and Violence

  5. AFRICAN AMERICAN CIVIL RIGHTS FOCUS

     • AAAS 114 Introduction to African and African American Studies

     • AAAS 330 Criminal Justice and Moral Vision

     • AAAS 351 The Civil Rights Movement

     • AAAS 355 Readings in African American Women's History

     • AAAS 368 African American History to Emancipation

     • ENG 204 African American Literature

     • HIST 324 Race and Ethnicity in the United States

     • POLS 348 Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

     • Civil Rights May Term

  6. WOMEN AND SOCIAL CHANGE FOCUS

     • HIST 367 Women and Men in American Society

     • PAGS 340 Sexual Violence in Social Context

     • PHIL 386 Feminist Philosophies

     • SOAN 364 Gender: Anthropological Perspectives

     • WMNS 305 Introduction to Women's Studies

     • WMNS 375 Feminist Theories

  7. ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES FOCUS A or B

     Given the social and political context of many environmental problems, a PAGS major provides the graduate with important knowledge and skills applicable to feasible solutions of environmental problems. The Environmental Studies Focus introduces students to the symbolic systems that govern human relationships with nature: humanistic discourse, social science discourse, natural science discourse and mathematics.

     • Three courses from the following:

       • BIOL 111 Ecological Biology

       • BIOL 226 Biological Diversity

       • BIOL 360 Conservation Biology

       • BIOL 455 Population and Community Ecology

       • CHEM 271 Environmental Chemistry

       • ECON 343 Economics of the Environment

       • ENG 305 American Literature and Ecology

       • ENPR 111 Environmental Science and Sustainability

       • ENPR 242 Environmental Modeling

       • ENPR 280 Environmental Colloquium
         (if offered for 3 credits)

       • GEOS 111 Environmental Geoscience

       • GEOS 360 Tectonics and Geophysics

       • GEOS 362 Hydrogeology

       • POLS 372 International Law I:
         Sovereignty, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights

       • SOAN 327 Indigenous Peoples:
         Environment, Culture, Identity

       • SPAN 433 The Menorca Biosphere

  8. STUDENT-DESIGNED FOCUS

     The focus should represent a disciplinary, thematic or vocational group of courses designed by the student in consultation with a faculty adviser.

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