SearchJustice and Peace Studies Minor
Program Description: The minor in Justice and Peace Studies consists of a multidisciplinary series of curses integrating community-service-learning, social analysis, and ethical knowledge and reflection in the context of a faith that does justice and seeks a more peaceful world. It is a response to the challenge of Fr. Peter-Hans Kolvenbach, S.J., Superior General of the Society of Jesus, to "educate the whole person of solidarity for the real world." It is premised on Fr. Kolvenbach's insight that "personal involvement with innocent suffering, with the injustices others suffer, is the catalyst for solidarity which then gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection."
All of the following:
JPS 365 Faith and Moral Development (repeated for a total of 3 credits; JPS 265 Cortina Seminar may be cointed for one credit)
JPS 565 Catholic Social Teaching
JPS 499 Senior Seminar
JPS 588 Christian Ethics of War and Peace
Service Learning
(One of the following):
THL 342 The Church in the Dominican Republic
JPS 343 Ecclesiology in Global Context
JPS 361 Social Justice in the Dominican Republic
JPS 465 Faith and Political Action
JPS 470 Poverty in America
SWK 261 Introduction to Social Welfare
Social Science
(One of the following):
ECO 203 Introductory Microeconomics
ECO 479 International Political Economy
PLS 339 Public Policy and Poverty in the United States
PLS 435 Global Poverty and Development
SRP 481 Poverty, Development, and Public Policy
SOC 102 Introduction to Sociology: Social Problems
SOC 341 American Cultural Minorities
SOC 411 Social Inequality and Stratification
SRP 455 Food, Society, and Environment
SRP 465 Faith and Political Action
SRP 481 Poverty, Development and Public Policy