No new students are being admitted into this Interdisciplinary Minor.

Coordinated by the School of Global Environmental Sustainability. 

Learning Objectives

Upon successful completion, students will be able to evaluate the following:

1. How conflicts—intrapersonal, interpersonal, organizational, political, societal and global—can be best resolved without resorting to power or violence.
2. How past problems can be reconciled and injuries healed, both locally and beyond.
3. How the underpinnings of an enduring peace can be established and sustained.

Effective Fall 2020

Students must satisfactorily complete the total credits required for the minor. Minors and interdisciplinary minors require 12 or more upper-division (300- to 400-level) credits.

Additional coursework may be required due to prerequisites.

Course List

Code	Title	Credits
Required Core Courses
GES 101	Foundations of Environmental Sustainability	3
IE 479/ANTH 479	International Development Theory and Practice	3
PHIL 240	Philosophies of Peace and Nonviolence	3
Select one from the following courses:		3
EDUC 496	Group Study
IE 472	Education for Global Peace
PHIL 497	Group Study
Elective Credits: Select one course from each Aspect category below (for a minimum total of 9 credits):
Environmental, Societal, and Economics Aspects - select one course from the following:		3-4
ANTH 200	Cultures and the Global System (GT-SS3)
ANTH 415	Indigenous Ecologies and the Modern World
ANTH 417	Indigenous Environmental Stewardship
AREC 240/ECON 240	Economics of Environmental Sustainability (GT-SS1)
AREC 340/ECON 340	Introduction-Economics of Natural Resources
AREC 460	Ag- and Resource-Based Economic Development
ERHS 320	Environmental Health--Water Quality
ERHS 430	Human Disease and the Environment
ERHS 448	Environmental Contaminants
ETST 256	Border Crossings--People/Politics/Culture (GT-SS3)
GR 204/WR 204	Sustainable Watersheds (GT-SC2)
GR 410	Climate Change: Science, Policy, Implications
HIST 366	African-American History to 1865
LAND 364	Design and Nature
MGT 360	Social and Sustainable Venturing
NR 120A	Environmental Conservation (GT-SC2)
NR 130	Global Environmental Systems (GT-SC2)
NR 425	Natural Resource Policy and Sustainability
SOC 322	Environmental Justice
SOC 463	Sociology of Disaster
SPCM 334	Communication Across Difference
Personal, Psychological, Ethical and Legal Aspects - select one course from the following:		3-4
ANTH 329	Cultural Change
BUS 260	Social-Ethical-Regulatory Issues in Business
ETST 430	Latinx Creative Expression
ETST 432	Latinx Routes to Empowerment
ETST 444/SOC 444	Federal Indian Law and Policy
HDFS 332	Death, Dying, and Grief
HIST 250/ETST 250	African American History (GT-HI1)
HIST 252/ETST 252	Asian American History (GT-HI1)
HIST 360	United States Immigration History
HIST 414	Revolutions in Latin America
HONR 192	Honors First Year Seminar 1
HONR 193	Honors Seminar 2
IE 179	Globalization: Exploring Our Global Village (GT-SS3)
IE 270/AGRI 270	World Interdependence-Population and Food (GT-SS3)
IE 550/PHIL 550	Ethics and International Development
PSY 316	Environmental Psychology
SPCM 232	Collaborative Communication
Local, National and International Policy Aspects - select one course from the following:		3-4
HIST 421	Africa: Colonialism to Independence
HIST 438	The Modern Middle East
HIST 460	Slavery in the Americas
HIST 465	Pacific Wars: Korea and Vietnam
IE 470	Women and Development
IE 471	Children and Youth in Global Context
JTC 411	Media Ethics and Issues
JTC 412	International Mass Communication
NR 440	Applications in Conservation Planning
POLS 331	Politics and Society Along Mexican Border
POLS 405	Race and Ethnicity in U.S. Politics
POLS 413	U.S. Civil Rights and Liberties
POLS 437	International Security
POLS 448	Comparative Racial/Ethnic Politics
POLS 449	Middle East Politics
PSY 330	Clinical and Counseling Psychology
PSY 437	Psychology of Gender
SOC 320	Population-Natural Resources and Environment
SOC 362	Social Change
SOC 431	Community Dynamics and Development
SOWK 330	Intersectionality and Identity
SOWK 450/IE 450	International Social Welfare and Development
SPCM 434	International and Intercultural Communication
SPCM 436	Conflict Management and Communication
Program Total Credits:		21-24

¹

Titled “Peacemaking.” Must be enrolled in University Honors program.

²

Titled “Exploring Sustainable Solutions.” Must be enrolled in University Honors program.