PSJ 201 - Principles of Peace and Social Justice

Credits: 3
This course focuses on social responsibility by examining the means of establishing justice, achieving peace, and resolving conflicts nonviolently. The causes, nature, and processes of conflict are reviewed. That conflicts are frequently rooted in injustice requires an understanding of the nature of social justice. These injustices may arise from economic, political, sociological, religious, and/or psychological sources. The nature and methods of nonviolent conflict resolution and reconciliation are also considered. This course is intended to introduce students to the peace and social justice minor as a foundation for studying these issues as they are treated in the other courses included in this program. At the end of this course, students will decide whether they wish to pursue either the International/Global Track or the Individual/ Local Track of the program.