Required and Elective Courses
The minor consists of a minimum of 16 semester hours. Many courses within existing university departmental curricula are potentially relevant to the minor, and it is the responsibility of the student to design a program (in consultation with Peace Studies faculty) based on his or her own interests and field of specialization prior to submission of the program to the Peace Studies faculty for approval.
A minimum of seven hours of the minor must be devoted to three required courses (students may take all five of the PEAC classes if they wish) :
- PEAC 200 (required)
- One of the following three courses (3 credit hours required) Students may take more than one of the courses.
- PEAC 499 (required) Students will prepare (under the direction of a Peace Studies faculty mentor) a Senior Portfolio of work produced in courses taken for the minor, show how they are all thematically connected, and prepare a public presentation of these examples of work.
Any additional credit hours needed to reach the 16 credit hours required for the minor will be made up of courses from other university departments that support the chosen concentration, selected by the student in consultation with the faculty mentor or the Director of Peace Studies. Courses taken for other majors or minors may be counted toward this minor.
Students complete a Program of Studies, listing the courses they plan to take; the Director of the Peace Studies Program must approve the Program of Studies.