This information is part of the Colgate University catalog, 2026-27.
Minor Requirements
The PCON minor requires six courses, as described below.
Cluster 1 - Core Approaches
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of PCC1 in the course offerings.
Two courses:
- PCON 201 - Processes of Peace & Conflict: Histories, Theories, Technologies
- PCON 202 - Practices of Peace and Conflict: Politics, Cultures, Societies
Cluster 2 - Elective Offerings
Courses fulfilling this requirement have an attribute of PCC2 in the course offerings.
Four of the following:
- ALST 250 - Representations of Africa
- ANTH 205 - Archaeology of Warfare
- ARTH 262 - War and Plunder
- ASIA 200 - Centering Asia
- CORE C137 - Partition: The Division of British India
- CORE S138 - Advent of the Atomic Bomb
- COSC 311 - Security, Privacy and Society
- ENGL 151 - Literature of Survival: Genocide, Trauma, and Memory
- ENGL 431 - Ethnographic Fictions: Human Rights and Literature
- GEOG 107 - Is the Planet Doomed?
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- HIST 203 - Age of the American Revolution
- HIST 210 - The History of Health, Disease and Empire
- HIST 232 - The Crusades
- HIST 233 - The French Revolution: Old Regime, Revolution, and Napoleonic Empire, 1770-1815
- HIST 245 - Russia at War
- HIST 251 - The Politics of History
- HIST 261 - Modern Irish History
- HIST 265 - War and Violence in East Asia
- HIST 271 - The First World War
- HIST 272 - War and Holocaust in Europe
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HIST 284 - Decolonization in Africa - HIST 337 - Pirates in the Atlantic World, 1500s - 1730
- HIST 350 - Contemporary European History, 1945 to the Present
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- HIST 368 - China, the Great Wall, and Beyond
- HIST 370 - The Mongol Empire
- HIST 379 - U.S. and Africa
- HIST 382 - Modern Africa
- HIST 384 - Somalia: From Independence to Collapse
- HIST 385 - Darfur in Historical Perspective
- HIST 388 - The American South: From Reconstruction to the Present
- HIST 489 - Seminar on Problems in Military History
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- PCON 111 - Introduction to War Studies
- PCON 160 - Gender (In)Security
- PCON 245 - Organizing War: Technologies, Logistics, and Infrastructures of Militarization
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- PCON 301 - International Human Rights
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- PCON 314 - Media War: Peace & Conflict in the Digital Age
- PCON 322 - Weapons and War
- PCON 325 - Theories of Peace and Conflict
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- PCON 337 - Forced Displacement: Refugees, Migrants and Asylum-Seekers
- PCON 340 - Revolutionary Warfare: Guerrillas, Terrorists, and Counterinsurgents
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- PCON 345 - Transitional and Historical Justice
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- PCON 356 - Is it Genocide? The Legal Bases of Settler Colonialism
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- POSC 152 - Global Peace and War (IR)
- POSC 331 - Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
- POSC 351 - Foreign Relations of East Asia
- POSC 353 - National Security
- POSC 354 - Capitalism, the State, and Development in Latin America
- POSC 357 - International Institutions
- POSC 359 - Power in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin
- POSC 361 - Humanitarian Interventions
- POSC 366 - Foreign Policy Analysis
- POSC 368 - American Foreign Relations with China
- POSC 374 - International Law
- POSC 405 - Seminar: Coercive Diplomacy: Trade, Aid & Sanctions
- POSC 406 - Seminar: The State and Political Violence
- POSC 421 - Seminar: Information Warfare
- POSC 434 - Seminar: Immigrants, Refugees, and the Politics of Borders
- POSC 437 - Seminar: Democratization and Prospects for Peace and Prosperity
- POSC 451 - Seminar: Politics in Sub-Saharan Africa
- POSC 454 - Seminar: The Cold War and After
- POSC 456 - Seminar: War - Theories and Practices
- RELG 240 - Religion and Terrorism
- RELG 262 - Islam in Our Post-9/11 World
- RELG 331 - The Problem of Evil
- RELG 347 - Religion and U.S. Foreign Policy
- REST 255 - Courage, Conformity, Atrocity: Ukraine and Russia
- REST 333 - Human Rights in Russia and Eurasia
- REST 358 - Russian Revolutions
- REST 359 - Power in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin
- SOCI 240 - Fascism and Right-Wing Extremism: A Historical Sociology
- SOCI 304 - Sociology of Disasters
- SOCI 328 - Criminology
- WRIT 241 - Politics of Public Memory
Additional Stipulations
- Minors may take PCON 479 as one of their electives, with instructor permission.
- PCON minors are strongly encouraged to consult with their PCON faculty advisor at least once each semester.
GPA Requirement
A minimum grade of C is required for all courses taken toward the minor.
Declarations
Students can declare a PCON minor at any time. Prospective and declared minors are strongly encouraged to take and successfully complete (with a grade of C or higher) Cluster 1 (PCON 201 and 202) before their junior year.
Peace and Conflict Studies Program
For more information about the department, including Faculty, transfer credit, awards, etc., please visit the catalog page.