Peace and Conflict Studies Minor

Minor Requirements

The PCON minor requires six courses.

Students must take PCON 201 and PCON 202, as well as any four Cluster 2 elective offerings (see list below).

Minors may take PCON 479 as one of their electives, with instructor permission.

Up to two courses from a PCON minor can be shared with a major or any other minor. These courses should be approved by the student's PCON faculty adviser in order to make sure all applicable requirements are being met for successful completion and graduation. PCON minors are strongly encouraged to consult with their PCON faculty advisor at least once each semester.

Geographic Areas of Specialization

1. Central America, the Caribbean, and South America
2. North America
3. West, East, Central, and Southern and Sub-Saharan Africa
4. Europe
5. The Middle East and North Africa
6. Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
7. Asia and the Pacific Rim
8. Transregional Communities

Elective Offerings (Cluster 2)

• ANTH 245/SOCI 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics  
• CORE C137 - Partition: The Division of British India  
• CORE S138 - The Advent of the Atomic Bomb
• EDUC 303 - Decolonizing Development: Gender, Power & Education in International Development
• ENGL 431 - Ethnographic Fictions: Travel Writing, Bearing Witness, and Human Rights
• ENST 321 - Global Environmental Justice
• GEOG 318/SOCI 318 - International Migration, U.S. Immigration, and Immigrants   
• GEOG 321 - Transnational Feminist Geography
• HIST 206 - The Civil War Era (US)
• HIST 216 - U.S. Foreign Policy, 1917 - Present (US)
• HIST 231 - Resistance and Revolt in Latin America (LAC)
• HIST 237 - Empires and Global History:1400-1700 (TR)
• HIST 251 - The Politics of History (TR)
• HIST 265 - War and Violence in East Asia (AS)
• HIST 271 - The First World War (TR)
• HIST 272 - War and Holocaust in Europe (EU)
• HIST 309 - Culture and Society in Cold War America (US)
• HIST 316 - The United States in Vietnam, 1945 - 1975 (US)
• HIST 350 - Contemporary European History, 1945 to the Present (EU)
• HIST 358 - Conquest and Colony: Cultural Encounters in the Americas (TR)
• HIST 375 - Murder in United States History (US)
• HIST 380 - Emancipation, Forced Labor, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (AF)
• HIST 489 - Seminar on Problems in Military History (TR)
• JWST 251/RELG 251 - Faith after the Holocaust   
• PCON 245 - Organizing War: Military Organization, Culture, and Thought Since the Beginning of the Modern Age
• PCON 260 - Feminist Security Studies
• PCON 301 - International Human Rights
• PCON 303/GEOG 303 - The Camp: A Global History of Civilian Internment  
• PCON 304/GEOG 304 - Criminal Underworld: Drugs, Guns, Bodies  
• PCON 310/GEOG 310 - Geopolitics  
• PCON 314 - Media War: Peace and Conflict in the Digital Age
• PCON 322 - Weapons and War: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• PCON 329/GEOG 329 - Environmental Security  
• PCON 340 - Terror and Counter - Terror: Histories and Logics of Asymmetric Warfare
• PCON 341/POSC 341 - War and the Shaping of American Politics
• PCON 345 - Transitional and Historical Justice
• PCON 351/MIST 351 - The Israel/Palestine Conflict  
• PCON 356 - Is it Genocide? The Legal Bases of Settler Colonialism  
• PCON 358/POSC 358 - Transnational Politics   
• PCON 368/ENGL 368 - After Genocide: Memory and Representation  
• PCON 499 - Honors Seminar in Peace and Conflict Studies
• PHIL 312 - Contemporary Political Philosophy (VT)
• PHIL 313 - International Ethics (VT)
• POSC 317 - Identity Politics
• POSC 344 - Politics of Poverty
• POSC 348 - The Rise and Fall of Communism
• POSC 349 - The International Political Economy
• POSC 353 - National Security
• POSC 357 - International Institutions
• POSC 374 - International Law
• POSC 390 - Silent Warfare: Intelligence Analysis and Statecraft
• POSC 454 - Seminar: The Cold War and After
• POSC 456 - Seminar: War - Theories and Practices
• PSYC 368 - Prejudice and Racism
• RELG 217 - Violence and Religion in Asia
• RELG 235 - Religion, War, Peace, and Reconciliation
• RELG 240 - Religion and Terrorism
• RELG 251 - Faith after the Holocaust
• REST 333 - Human Rights in Russia and Eurasia
• RELG 345 - Religion and Human Rights
• SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
• SOCI 216 - Sociology of War
• SOCI 312 - Social Inequality
• SOCI 326 - Nations and Nationalism

Declarations

Students can declare a PCON minor at any time. Prospective minors are strongly encouraged to take and successfully complete (with a grade of C or higher) at least one required Cluster 1 course before making the decision.

GPA Requirement

A minimum grade of C is required for all courses taken toward the minor.

Peace and Conflict Studies Program

For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the Peace and Conflict Studies program catalog page.