2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

Peace and Justice Studies Interdisciplinary Minor (SJNY Brooklyn and SJNY Long Island)

(18 credits)

Peace and Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary minor designed to identify and critically analyze conditions that contribute to injustice, social conflict and war. Through reflection on moral and ethical values and the application of social action strategies, students will be challenged to participate in the struggle to make peace with justice a social reality.

Required 100 Level Courses: 6 Credits

RS 154 - Issues of War and Peace 3 credits. or
RS 174 - Social Justice and Human Development 3 credits.
HIS 152 - Contemporary International Problems 3 credits or
PHI 160 - Introduction to Ethics 3 credits.

200 Level Courses: 6 Credits

One From Each Group

Group 1:

HIS 224 - South and Southeast Asia 3 credits.
HIS 225 - The Making of the Modern Middle East 3 credits.
HIS 250 - Latin America 3 credits.
PHI 260 - An Inquiry into Cross Cultural Guides for Living 3 credits.

Group 2:

POL 203 - Political and Civil Rights 3 credits
POL 215 - International Relations, Law and Organization 3 credits
POL 220 - War, Revolution, and Resistance 3 credits.
SOC 237 - Inequality and Social Class 3 credits
SOC 249 - Race and Ethnicity 3 credits

300 Level Courses: 3 Credits

HIS 350 - The Holocaust 3 credits.
HIS 360 - The Vietnam Era 3 credits.
POL 315 - Politics of Human Rights 3 credits.
SOC 310 - The Civil Rights Movement 3 credits
RS 352 - Latin America at the Crossroads 3 credits.

Capstone Course: 3 Credits

RS 300 - Interdisciplinary Readings on Peace and Justice 3 credits.