HUMT 1325 - Introduction to Peace and Justice Studies

5 credit hours
This course will examine the key terms, ideas, and theories that are at the heart of peace and justice studies as an academic discipline. Students will read foundational texts in the discipline and explore the ways they help to interpret important case studies of social change. Especially important in this regard is the exploration of types of peace (negative and positive) and violence (direct, structural, and cultural), justice as it applies to social and political institutions, the history of the idea and law of human rights, how nonviolent social change happens, and critical questions that shape the contemporary debates in the discipline.