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Plan of Study

General Education Requirements

Some of the courses that are part of the Peace and Global Studies curriculum fulfill General Education Requirements.

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 Macroeconomics: Macro and Globalization OR
    a suitable ECON 150 Earlham Seminar
  • PAGS 107 Introduction to International Relations (for first- or second-year students)
  • PAGS 130 History and Theory of Nonviolent Movements
  • PAGS 240 Global Dynamics and World Peace
  • PAGS 343 Conflict Resolution
  • PAGS 370 Philosophy of Social Science OR
    PAGS 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:

Conflict Transformation Focus

  • MGMT 100 Introduction to Organizations
  • 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

Religion and Pacifism Focus

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:

  • 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
  • HCST 220 Quaker Life
  • PJST 330 The Bible and Violence and Nonviolence
  • PJST 351 Quakers in Conflict
  • PJST 366 Liberation Theologies
  • PJST 370 Spirituality of Peacemaking
  • SPST 334 Quaker Spirituality
  • THST 340 Quaker Belief

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

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 375 Topics in International Relations
    • PHIL 330 Postcolonial Theory
    • REL 425 Religious Responses to War and Violence

African American Civil Right Focus

  • AAAS 114 Introduction to African American Studies
  • AAAS 330 Criminal Justice and Moral Vision
  • AAAS 356 The Civil Rights Movement
  • AAAS 357 Readings in African American Women's History
  • AAAS 368 African American History to Emancipation
  • ENG 304 African American Literature
  • HIST 324 Race and Ethnicity in the United States
  • POLS 348 Constitutional Law II: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties

Women and Social Change Focus

  • HIST 367 Women and Men in American Society
  • PHIL 386 Feminist Philosophies
  • SOAN 364 Gender: Anthropological Perspectives
  • WMNS 305 Introduction to Women’s Studies
  • WMNS 375 Feminist Theories

Environmental Studies Focus

  • BIOL 111 Ecological Biology
  • BIOL 226 Biological Diversity
  • BIOL 360 Conservation Biology
  • BIOL 455 Population and Community Ecology
  • CHEM 371 Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology
  • ECON 343 Economics of the Environment
  • ENG 305 American Literature and Ecology
  • ENPR 111 Environmental Science and Sustainability
  • ENPR 280 Environmental Seminar (if offered for 3 credits)
  • GEOS 201 Environmental Geology
  • GEOS 410 Structural Geology and Tectonics
  • GEOS 430 Hydrogeology
  • POLS 372 International Law I: Sovereignty, Humanitarian Law and Human Rights
  • POLS 376 Politics of Global Climate Change
  • SOAN 327 Indigenous Peoples and the Environment

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.

Interdepartmental Major

Students choosing the Peace and Global Studies Interdepartmental Major must complete:

  • PAGS 101 Introduction to Macroeconomics: Macro and Globalization OR a suitable ECON 150 Earlham Seminar
  • PAGS 107 Introduction to International Relations OR PAGS 207 Issues before the United Nations
  • PHIL 150 Earlham Seminar on Peace and Justice
  • PAGS 130 History of Nonviolent Movements
  • PAGS 370 Philosophy of Social Science 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 OR PAGS 343 Conflict Resolution
  • PAGS 486 Senior Research Project
  • PAGS 488 Senior Capstone Experience
  • Two to three courses from a recognized major such as Art, Economics, Politics, Religion or Spanish. The courses should be selected in consultation with faculty from both PAGS and the other department.