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Peace and Human Rights Minor (15 Credits)

Peace and Human Rights Minor

The Peace and Human Rights Studies minor is a 15-hour interdisciplinary program compatible with any undergraduate major. The program draws on all disciplines which have peace and human rights components including anthropology, art, business, history, literature, philosophy, political science, sociology and woman’s studies. Students are encouraged to think critically and to broadly explore issues of fundamental significance in today’s world relating to peace and human rights.

The Peace and Human Rights minor consists of a minimum of 15 credits.

Minor Electives  

Choose 5 – 15 Credits – no more than six credits can be from one discipline:

  • ANT 221 Native Americans
  • ANT/LAS 225 Contemp. Puerto Rican Cultr/Soc
  • ANT/LAS 240 Latinos in the United States
  • ANT/WST 300 Women and Work
  • ANT 358 Anthropology of Violence
  • ART/WST 355 Women, Gender, and Art
  • ART 369 African American Art
  • BUS 466 Nonprofit Management
  • ENG/WST 228 Poetry of Women
  • ENG 252 Harlem Renaissance
  • ENG 255 African American Literature
  • ENG 256 Native American Literature
  • ENG 258 Asian American Literature
  • ENG 259 Chicano/Chicana Lit/Culture
  • ENG 314 Indigenous Studies
  • ENG/WST 351 Feminist Theories
  • ENG/WST 352 Lesbian Literature
  • ENG/LAS 393 Chicana and Latinx Rhetorics
  • GEO/WST 306 Gender, Justice, and Environment
  • GEO 331 Geography of Food
  • GEO/PSC/WST 336 Politics of Race and Violence
  • GEO 337 Economic Geography
  • GEO/PSC/WST 338 Geopolitics
  • HSC 235 Native American Health
  • HIS 243 Churches and the Modern Civil Rights Movement
  • HIS 346 Central America
  • HIS 373 Mao’s China
  • HIS 375 Modern Japan
  • HIS 391 Religion, War, and Peace in Early Modern Europe
  • PHI/PHR 200 Peace & Human Rights
  • PHI 220 Ethics
  • PHI 340 The Philosophy of War
  • PHI 360 Global Ethics
  • PHI/PSC 370 Human Rights: Natural & Civil
  • PSC/WST 227 Women and Politics
  • PSC 314 Modern Social and Political Thought
  • PSC 315 American Social/Political Thought
  • PSC 326 Politics of Race, Class, and Gender
  • PSC 340 Constitutional Law II: Civil Liberty
  • SOC/WST 208 Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual Lives
  • SOC 250 Social Inequality
  • SOC 346 Race and Ethnic Relations
  • SOC 357 Sociology of Development
  • THE 299 Diversity in Performance
  • THE 309 Feminist Playwriting Wo