Nov 28, 2023

Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2023-2024

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Loyola Marymount University Bulletin 2023-2024

Peace and Justice Studies Minor

Director

Tracy Tiemeier

Objectives

The Peace and Justice Studies program seeks to embody the mission of the University, ever more important in light of the “just peace” movement that Pope Francis recently endorsed. As such, the Peace and Justice Studies minor seeks to ensure that students gain knowledge in three key areas of peace and justice as well as practically applying that knowledge through an engaged learning experience. Within the three main areas (Peace and Conflict; Social, Environmental, Economic, and Legal Justice; and Ethical Approaches), students may choose from a variety of courses that relate to their chosen fields of interest and emphasis, drawing from programs such as Political Science, History, Theological Studies, Philosophy, Economics, Sociology, and a number of other departments.

Minor Requirements:

20 semester hours (5 courses, minimum 3 upper division courses) are required for the minor. All minors must take PJST 1000 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies . In addition, students must take courses within three designated areas with at least one course in each area: 1. Peace and Conflict; 2. Social, Environmental, Economic and Legal Justice; and 3. Ethical Approaches. One of the 5 courses must include an engaged learning course, OR a student must do a peace and justice-related internship (see Director).

Peace and Justice Studies Learning Outcomes

Peace and Justice Studies minors will:

Be knowledgeable of the historical contributions made by peacemakers in the past, and assess their contributions to continued thought in Peace and Justice Studies;
Be able to analyze complex systematic issues of injustice, conflict and oppression from multiple disciplinary perspectives;
Understand ethical issues of peace and justice; and
Possess a commitment to social justice and non-violence.

Courses

PJST 1000 Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies 4 semester hours
Other courses may be approved at the discretion of the Director.

I. Peace and Conflict

AFAM 4642 Sex, Race, and Violence 4 semester hours
HIST 2300 Red, White, and Black: Race in Colonial America 4 semester hours
HIST 3600 Conflict and Genocide in Africa 4 semester hours
HIST 4273 Nazi Germany 4 semester hours
HIST 4432 American Reform Movements 4 semester hours
HIST 4540 The Palestine/Israel Conflict 4 semester hours
HIST 4620 South Africa 4 semester hours
JWST 4350 The History and Psychology of the Holocaust and Genocide: Perspectives on Power 4 semester hours
POLS 3410 Politics of Africa 4 semester hours
POLS 3440 Politics in the Middle East 4 semester hours
POLS 3620 International Security 4 semester hours
POLS 3630 Peace and Reconciliation 4 semester hours
POLS 3650 United States Foreign Policy 4 semester hours
CMST 3430 Culture, Crime, and Punishment 4 semester hours

II. Social, Environmental, Legal, and Economic Justice

AFAM 1211 Introduction to African American Studies 4 semester hours
CATH 3752 Contemplatives in Action: Psychology, Spirituality, and Liberation 4 semester hours
CATH 4998 Special Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours (when taken as Pacifism and Peace Movements)
EVST 3998 Special Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours (when taken as Women and Environmental Justice)
FTVS 3310 Film/Media and Social Justice 4 semester hours
JWST 4370 Nazi Germany and Questions of Conscience 4 semester hours
POLS 3230 Courts, Law, and Society 4 semester hours
POLS 3320 Social Movements 4 semester hours
POLS 3340 Urban Politics 4 semester hours
POLS 3350 Elderly and the Law 4 semester hours
POLS 5360 Gender and the Law 4 semester hours
POLS 5720 Comparative Human Rights 4 semester hours
PSYC 3019 African and Black Psychology 4 semester hours
PSYC 3998 Special Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours (when taken as Liberation Psychologies)
PSYC 4033 Community Psychology 4 semester hours
SOCL 3250 Health and Social Justice 4 semester hours
SOCL 3341 Politics, Faith, and Civic Engagement 4 semester hours
SOCL 3390 Work and Economic Justice 4 semester hours
SOCL 4100 Criminal Justice 4 semester hours
SOCL 4103 Social Psychology and the Law 4 semester hours
THST 3752 Contemplatives in Action: Psychology, Spirituality, and Liberation 4 semester hours
WGST 2000 Women in Global Communities 4 semester hours
WGST 3200 Gender, Race, and Environmental Justice 4 semester hours

III. Ethical Approaches

CATH 3563 Love and Justice 4 semester hours
PHIL 3100 Ethics 4 semester hours
PHIL 3110 Environmental Ethics 4 semester hours
PHIL 3150 Contemporary Moral Problems 4 semester hours
PHIL 3165 Philosophy of Law 4 semester hours
PHIL 3998 Special Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours (when taken as Philosophy from the Periphery)
POLS 3010 Classical and Christian Political Theory 4 semester hours
POLS 4030 Punishment and Mercy 4 semester hours
POLS 5710 International Affairs and Social Justice 4 semester hours
POLS 5730 Ethics and Peacebuilding 4 semester hours
THST 3260 Thinking Well, Doing Right 4 semester hours
THST 3286 Religion and (Non) Violence 4 semester hours
THST 3560 Punishment and Mercy 4 semester hours
THST 3563 Love and Justice 4 semester hours
THST 3564 Ethics and Justice in Dante’s Inferno 4 semester hours
THST 3998 Special Studies 1 TO 4 semester hours (when taken as Prisons and People)