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?
- HIST 106/ALST 282 - The Making of Modern Africa
- 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 281/ALST 281 - Slavery and the Slave Trade in Africa
HIST 284 - Decolonization in Africa - HIST 337 - Pirates in the Atlantic World, 1500s - 1730
- HIST 350 - Contemporary European History, 1945 to the Present
- HIST 356/NAIS 356 - Global Indigenous History
- 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
- JWST 251/RELG 251 - Faith after the Holocaust
- PCON 111 - Introduction to War Studies
- PCON 160 - Gender (In)Security
- PCON 245 - Organizing War: Technologies, Logistics, and Infrastructures of Militarization
- PCON 262/GEOG 262 - Geopolitics
- 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 314 - Media War: Peace & Conflict in the Digital Age
- PCON 322 - Weapons and War
- PCON 325 - Theories of Peace and Conflict
- PCON 329/GEOG 329 - Environmental Security
- PCON 330/MIST 330 - Capitalism & Imperialism in the Middle East
- PCON 337 - Forced Displacement: Refugees, Migrants and Asylum-Seekers
- PCON 340 - Revolutionary Warfare: Guerrillas, Terrorists, and Counterinsurgents
- 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
- 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 Peace and Conflict Studies program catalog page.