Peace Studies Program at UW-Milwaukee: List of Elective Courses

Peace Studies Elective Courses

This is a list of courses that have been approved as electives for the Peace Studies Certificate. This is not an exhaustive list and new courses can always be approved as electives with the permission of the Certificate Coordinator (aherbert@uwm.edu). Because courses change, are not always offered, and new courses are introduced each semester, please consult the course catalogue for the relevant semester(s) to see the full range of courses that might be applied toward a Peace Studies Certificate.

Africology

218	Conflict and Cooperation in Black-White Relations
265	Psychological Effects of Racism
300	Urban Violence
322	Order and Disorder in the Quest for Social Justice

Biological Sciences

471	Principles of Natural Resources Management

Communication

350	Intercultural Communication
363	Communication in Human Conflict
500	Communication and Community Service
661	Current Topics in Communication
	- Afrocentric Communication
	- Rhetoric of Sojourner Truth
665	Introduction to Mediation

Comparative Literature

230	Literature and Society: Existentialism
231	Literature and Religion: Literature of the Holocaust
232	Literature and Film: Film and War
433	Comparative Mythology

Criminal Justice Program

416	Domestic Violence Research
420	Violence and the Criminal Justice System

Economics

353	Economic Development

Educational Policy and Community Studies

411	Conflict and Change
520	Peace Education
521	Nonviolence in Education
522	Gender Violence in the Community

English

247	Literature and Human Experience: Literature of the Ecological Vision
293	Literature and Media: Southern Film and Fiction

Environmental Studies

210	Environmental Dynamics
490	Biological Aspects of Conservation

Exceptional Education

617	Cooperative Learning: Creative Conflict

Geography

120	Our Physical Environment
125	The Challenge of Our Physical Environment
350	Conservation of Natural Resources

Global Studies

101	People and Politics
201	Economics and the Environment
202	Globalization and Information Technology
499*	Ad Hoc

History

200	Historical Roots of Contemporary Issues
	· The Civil Strife in Northern Ireland
	· Crime and Punishment in the Western World
275	Introduction to Middle Eastern and Western Religion
280	Islamic Civilization: The Formative Period, CA. 500-1258
281	The Modern Middle East in the 19th and 20th Centuries
282	Arab-Israeli Relations: The Search For Peace
287	The American Experience in Vietnam
363	Germany: Hitler and the Nazi Dictatorship
385	Political Thought in Medieval Islam
399	Honors Seminar: Arab-Israeli Relations
	· The Search for Peace
433	From Colony to World Power: U.S. Foreign Relations to 1914
434	The United States as a World Power in the 20th Century
440	History of American Working Classes
457	Military History of the United States

International Studies

550	Senior Seminar in International Studies: Collective Violence and the State

Peace Studies

201	Introduction to Conflict Resolution and Peace

Philosophy

204	Introduction to Asian Religions
244	Ethnical Issues in Health Care: Dilemmas Facing Providers & Administrators of Health care
255	Philosophy of Political Action
271	Philosophic Traditions: Western Great Lakes American Indian Philosophy
275	Introduction to Middle Eastern and Western Religions
355	Political Philosophy
475	Special Topics in Indian Religious Thought: Gandhi and Nonviolence

Political Science

175	Introduction to International Relations
316	International Law
317	Principles of International Law: Conflict resolution
333	Seminar in Comparative Politics: Collective Violence and the State
337	International Organization and the United States
338	Seminar In International Relations
359	Problems In American Foreign Policy
360	International Relations Theory
365	Theories and Methods in International Politics
370	International Conflict
419	Constitutional Interpretation

Psychology

201	Introduction to Conflict Resolution and Peace

Sociology

215	Religion and Society
325	Social Change
450	Environmental Sociology

Spanish

795	Hispanic Culture: The Culture of Dictatorship in Spain and Latin America