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This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2020–21.
Minor Requirements
The PCON minor requires six courses.
Students must take PCON 111 and one other Cluster 1 course (PCON 218 or PCON 225), as well as any four Cluster 2 elective offerings (see list below).
Minors are strongly encouraged to take two geographic areas courses, unless their major is in a department or program in which they are studying a geographic area. Minors may take PCON 479 as one of their electives, with instructor permission.
Geographic Areas of Specialization
- Central America, the Caribbean, and South America
- North America
- West, East, Central, and Southern and Sub-Saharan Africa
- Europe
- The Middle East and North Africa
- Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia
- Asia and the Pacific Rim
- Transregional Communities
Elective Offerings (Cluster 2)
- PCON 240 - Protesting Injustice, Waging Nonviolence
- PCON 260 - Gender in Conflict and Peace
- PCON 301 - International Human Rights and Advocacy
- 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 355/ALST 355 - Rwanda since the 1994 Genocide
- PCON 358/POSC 358 - Transnational Politics
- PCON 368/ENGL 368 - After Genocide: Memory and Representation
- ALST 330/SOCI 330 - Race and Crime
- ANTH 245/SOCI 245 - Nature, Culture, and Politics
- CORE 138S - The Advent of the Atomic Bomb
- EDUC 219 - Education for Peace and Nonviolence
- 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 305/MIST 305 - Geopolitics of the Middle East
- GEOG 318/SOCI 318 - International Migration, U.S. Immigration, and Immigrants
- GEOG 321 - Gender, Justice, and Environmental Change
- HIST 216 - U.S. Foreign Policy, 1917 - Present (US)
- HIST 231 - Resistance and Revolt in Latin America (LAC)
- HIST 237 - Empires, Places, and Global History (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 273 - The Century of Camps (TR)
- HIST 309 - Culture and Society in Cold War America (US)
- HIST 316 - The United States in Vietnam, 1945 - 1975 (US)
- HIST 350 - Post-War Europe, 1945 to the Present (EU)
- HIST 380 - Emancipation, Forced Labor, and Contemporary Bondage in Africa (AF)
- HIST 479 - Seminar on Problems in the History of U.S. Foreign Policy (US)
- HIST 489 - Seminar on Problems in Military History (TR)
- JWST 251/RELG 251 - Faith after the Holocaust
- 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 361 - Humanitarian Interventions
- POSC 365 - Just War in Comparative Perspective
- POSC 374 - International Law
- POSC 381 - Revolutions
- 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 235 - Religion, War, Peace, and Reconciliation
- RELG 240 - Religion and Terrorism
- SOCI 212 - Power, Racism, and Privilege
- SOCI 216 - Sociology of War
- SOCI 312 - Social Inequality
- SOCI 326 - Nations and Nationalism
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 catalogue page.