Peace Studies Courses

The peace studies minor is a 15-hour interdisciplinary program available to all Xavier undergraduates and compatible with any major. It is designed to examine the many aspects of achieving peace in the contemporary world.  The minor requires the Challenge of Peace seminar (THEO 345/POLI 344) and four electives. No more than two of the electives can be in the same department.

Course Listings

The required Challenge of Peace seminar is offered every Spring semester.

Below are the courses that currently qualify as Peace Studies electives. Check page 5 of the "Schedule of Courses" published by the Registrar's Office each semester for a listing of the Peace Studies courses that will be offered in the following semester.

BIOL 120    Life, Ecology, and People  (Blair)

BIOL 250    Ecology (Blair)

BIOL 398    Environmental Studies seminar (Blair, Farnsworth)

 

CJUS 265   Class and Class Conflict (Brooks)

CJUS 335   Inside-Out Prison Exchange (Monroe)

 

CLAS 160   From Romulus to Octavian (Byrne, Cueva, Lux)

 

COMM 323  Race, Class, Gender and the Media (Parker)

COMM 327  Interpersonal Conflict Management  (Tighe)

 

ECON 315  History of Economic Thought (Bertaux)

ECON 316  Globalization  (Abu-Rashed)

 

ENGL 205  Literature and Moral Imagination (sections of Getz, Winkelmann, Reid)

ENGL 371  War and Peace in World Literature (Getz)

 

HIST 123    African History I (Smythe)

HIST 124    African History II (Smythe)

HIST 151    Latin American History I (O’Hara)

HIST 152    Latin American History II (O’Hara)     

HIST 161    Asian History I (Frost)

HIST 162    Asian History II (Frost)

HIST 310    Social Conflict in the Antebellum South (Anderson)

HIST 314    Africa Since 1945 (Smythe)

HIST 316    West African History (Smythe)

HIST 324    African-American Struggle for Equality (Anderson)

HIST 340    History of Mexico (O’Hara)

HIST 352    Modern Middle East (Uhrig)

HIST 350    Globalization (Smythe)

HIST 354    Central American History (O’Hara)

HIST 395    History of South Africa (Smythe)

HIST 343    Religion and Empire in Latin America (O’Hara)

HIST 411    Race, Reparations, Reform in the United States (Jefferson)

HIST 427    Race and Nation in Latin America (O’Hara)

HIST 429    Latin America and the United States (O’Hara)

HIST 430    U.S. Women, War, and Peace (Anderson)

HIST 435    The Great War (Chrastil)

 

HOCS 323  Occupational Justice I: Foundations (Scheerer)

 

POLI 214    Community Building and Social Change (B. White)

POLI 224    Middle East Politics (Malik)

POLI 277    International Relations (Malik)

POLI 320    Global Islamic Politics (Malik)

POLI 372    International Political Economy (Malik)

POLI 374    United States Foreign Policy     (T. White)

POLI 379    Revolution and Change (T. White)                                                       

POLI 390    International Relations (T. White)                                                         

 

SOCI 214   Community Building and Social Change (B. White)

SOCI 365   Class and Class Conflict (Brooks)

 

SOCW 204 Contemporary Social Problems (Jenkins)

SOCW 208  Economics of Society (Jenkins)

SOCW 316 Social Policy and Contemporary Issues (Brzuzy)

SOCW 318 Trends in Modern Society: Race Relations (Jenkins)

SOCW 325 Women/Men: Myth and Reality (Jenkins)

SOCW 330  Community Organizing (Krings Barnes)

SOCW 402  Child Abuse (Jenkins)

 

SPAN 205  Hispanic Literature and the Moral Imagination (sections by Hodgson)

SPAN 353 Introduction to Latin American Studies (Hodgson)

SPAN 358  Central America Culture and Society (Hodgson)

SPAN 406  Historical Memory in Latin American Texts (Hodgson)

 

THEO 207  Jesus and Power (Clark)

THEO 236  Jesuit Theology and Spirituality (Pramuk)

THEO 245  God, Creation, and Ecology  (Groppe, Sauerbrey)

THEO 247  God on the Underground Railroad (Gollar)

THEO 303  Christian Ethics (sections taught by Sniegocki)

THEO 304  AIDS: An Ethical Inquiry (Overberg)

THEO 306  Liberation Issues and Theology (Gable)

THEO 309  West African Religions (Gable)

THEO 311  Faith and Justice (Mack, Clark, Giblin) 

THEO 315 Contemporary Ethical Issues (Sniegocki, Overberg)

THEO 316  Globalization (Buchanan)         

THEO 319  Anti-Semitism: The Great Hatred (Rapp)

THEO 321  Meditation: Theory and Practice (Miller)

THEO 322  Black Theology (Clark)

THEO 328  Christian Ethics and the Death Penalty (Welage)

THEO 334  Prophets of Nonviolence (Miller, Welage)

THEO 340 U.S. Catholic Church and Public Issues (Lim, Overberg)

THEO 353  The Holocaust (Kamrass)

THEO 387  Theology and Animals (Farians)

THEO 388  Theology and Ecology (Miller)

 

THTR 270  Theatre as a Social Voice (Couch)

THTR 295   Theatre of Conscience (Welage)