Peace and Justice

Examines root causes of violence, pathways to building a more peaceful and just world. Basic issues include, peace, justice, power dynamics, violence, nonviolence, restorative justice peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building.

American education's contribution to class, gender, and """race"""" inequality; political bias in school curricula: unequal treatment of students by teachers and administrators based on """"race""""

Classical and contemporary examples and approaches to peacemaking in response to injustice and social conflict. Issues to be considered include the nature and significance of nonviolent struggle, political reconciliation, and the role of religion in shaping moral action for social change.

A critical examination of the social constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in U.S. culture and the injustices and inequalities that arise from them. Strategies, policies, and procedures for change are also examined.

Intermship

Internship.

Violence in families and society, the traditions of Just War theory, and the critiques of war from the perspective of pacifism and non-violence. The importance and role of the peacemakers of the world, the values of conflict resolution, and strategies that aid the creation of a peaceful world order.

The history of the struggle for justice and human rights in geographical locations, such as the Middle East, Ireland, Africa, and Central America, focusing on such issues as world hunger and apartheid, and culminating in an attempt to articulate systemic questions of justice.

This course explores the modern phenomenon of genocide by tracing its causes through historical, sociological, political, neurological, colonial, and religious roots. This is a multimedia, multi-disciplinary course focused on Rwanda, North America, Ottoman Turkey, Nazi Germany, and the form Yugoslavia.

Justice & discrimination in U.S. society from social, economic, political & ethical perspectives. Strategies for the just elimination of discrimination. Topics include civil rights, gender issues of justice, etc.

Development of discrimination and civil rights law in the United States through case materials in areas of racial discrimination, gender-based discrimination, reverse discrimination, sexual preference-based discrimination, and age discrimination, if time permits.

This course engages mass incarceration alongside scriptural and theological voices on justice and punishment. We take up notions of divine justice, atonement, and damnation/salvation as we examine practices of the criminal system and current efforts to reform or abolish it.

Examination of scholarship addressing the structure, function, & manifestations of """whiteness

Independent Study