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Please note that not all of the courses listed below will be available during the current semester. Please check with the Center as to the availability of a particular class.
PJ 1100 -
Intro to Peace & Justice
Description: Definitions and understandings of concepts such as peace, justice, racism, sexism and classism. Critical reflection on the systematic nature of justice and injustice; strategies and techniques for effective social change.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Fall 2004, Spring 2004
PJ 1500 -
Peace Keeping & The UN Lab
Description: Peacekeeping and the United Nations is offered in conjunction with the course Intro to Peace and Justice. This one credit course will serve as a laboratory for the course, which will include alternative teaching styles, intensive learning experiences and guest speakers.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Spring 1996, Spring 1995
PJ 2000 -
Selected Topics
Description: Application of Catholic Social Teaching and the Pastorals of the American Catholic Bishops to issues of systemic justice, social analysis, and political economy.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
PJ 2100 -
Eco Feminism
Description: Women's studies perspectives on environmental thought. The role of ecofeminist thought in the development of a "postmodern" societal paradigm and in a radical reconsideration of destructive and unquestioned beliefs concerning justice, peace and community.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Spring 2007, Spring 2000, Fall 1999
PJ 2200 -
Caring for the Earth
Description: The richness and diversity of Planet Earth, especially in its species forms; current forms of degradation to land, water, soil, and air, and human and animal inhabitants; economic, political, religious, cultural and social causes of global environmental problems; personal and ethical/ social justice decisions necessary to care for the Earth.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
PJ 2250 -
Violence & Justice in the Wrld
Description: Examines root causes of violence, pathways to building a more peaceful and just world. Basic issues include, peace, justice, power dynamics, violence, nonviolence, restorative justice peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peace building.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PJ 2400 -
Serv Learng Charity/Solidarity
Description: Economic, political, cultural, and spiritual root causes of the problems students observe in service projects. Development of a deeper appreciation and respect for the poor and a more long lasting commitment to their struggle for justice. Permission of instructor. Service component.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2005, Fall 2004, Spring 2004, Fall 2003
PJ 2500 -
Education & Social Justice
Description: American education's contribution to class, gender, and "race" inequality; political bias in school curricula: unequal treatment of students by teachers and administrators based on "race", ethnicity, class, and gender; unequal allocation of resources among public schools; the public - private school debate; possible political influences in universities; the mass media as an important component of education.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2003
PJ 2600 -
Catholic Social Teaching
Description: One hundred years of Catholic Social Thought. Papal encyclicals, especially Rerum Novarum (1891) and Sollicitudo Rei Socialis (1987). The pastoral letters of the American Bishops, special emphasis on the Challenge of Peace (1983) and Economic Justice for All (1986). Guest lecturers will help to show the interdisciplinary nature of Catholic teaching.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 2700 -
Peacemakers & Peacemaking
Description: Classical and contemporary examples and approaches to peacemaking in response to injustice and social conflict. Issues to be considered include the nature and significance of nonviolent struggle, political reconciliation, and the role of religion in shaping moral action for social change.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PJ 2800 -
Race, Class, & Gender
Description: A critical examination of the social constructions of race, class, gender, and sexuality in U.S. culture and the injustices and inequalities that arise from them. Strategies, policies, and procedures for change are also examined.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
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PJ 2900 -
Ethical Issues in P & J
Description: Introduction to contemporary complex moral issues. Examines economic, political, and social roots. Brings the Catholic Christian ethical tradition to bear to understanding their moral significance and responsibility to address them. Issues include: poverty, environmental justice, conflict, refugees, migration, genocide, and others.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered:
PJ 2993 -
Internship
Description: Intermship
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 2996 -
Internship
Description: Internship.
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Credit Hours: 6.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 3000 -
Selected Topics
Description: Violence in families and society, the traditions of Just War theory, and the critiques of war from the perspective of pacifism and non-violence. The importance and role of the peacemakers of the world, the values of conflict resolution, and strategies that aid the creation of a peaceful world order.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 3100 -
Amer. Indian Thought & Culture
Description: Historical, philosophical, religious, literary and artistic contributions of the Navajo, Sioux, Iroquois, and Hopi cultures. American Indian Art and Poetry, American Indian colonial history, American Indian tribal claims, and American Indian spirituality of the earth. Guest speakers and films.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2002, Fall 2001, Spring 2000, Fall 1999
PJ 3200 -
Justice and Sports
Description: The benefits and problems of competition. The role and value of competition in contemporary sports, with attendant social justice issues. The importance of play to a wholistic human life.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2005, Spring 2005
PJ 3300 -
Modern Peacemakers
Description: The life, times, writings, and influence of Mohandas Gandhi, Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Martin Luther King, Jr., emphasizing their nonviolent protests against modern forces of racism, militarism and economic exploitation. Guest lecturers.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Spring 2002, Fall 2000
PJ 3400 -
War and Morality
Description: Three traditions of moral reflection on war: "Just War" theory; Pacifism; and, the historical experience of women. Discussions focus on concrete cases (e.g., the modern world wars, Vietnam, the Persian Gulf War, Bosnia).
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Spring 2006
PJ 3500 -
Making Peace Work
Description: Various theories of peace; describing, explaining, and predicting the occurrence of peace; conflict, peace-making, -keeping, -building. Computer simulations of peace process.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2001, Spring 1997, Fall 1996, Fall 1995
PJ 4000 -
Selected Topics
Description: The history of the struggle for justice and human rights in geographical locations, such as the Middle East, Ireland, Africa, and Central America, focusing on such issues as world hunger and apartheid, and culminating in an attempt to articulate systemic questions of justice.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 4600 -
Global Poverty & Justice
Description: The challenges to creating a more just global order. The contribution of the christian theological and ethical traditions toward constructing an ethical framework appropriate for the emerging global order. Introduction to and critical examination of global institutions and policies e.g., the World Trade Organization, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the United Nations and others, with an eye to their impact on reducing global poverty.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Spring 2007, Fall 2006
PJ 4650 -
Service Learning Practicum
Description: Integrating the participation requirement for field experience with the academic requirements (reading, research paper, project, etc.) set by the instructor. Permission of the instructor.
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Credit Hours: 1.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 5000 -
Selected Topics
Description: Justice & discrimination in U.S. society from social, economic, political & ethical perspectives. Strategies for the just elimination of discrimination. Topics include civil rights, gender issues of justice, etc.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Summer 2007
PJ 5100 -
Discrimination, Justice & Law
Description: Development of discrimination and civil rights law in the United States through case materials in areas of racial discrimination, gender-based discrimination, reverse discrimination, sexual preference-based discrimination, and age discrimination, if time permits.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 5200 -
Perspectives on US Poverty
Description: An interdisciplinary perspective on poverty in the United States, emphasizing the past thirty years. Trends in the extent and incidence of poverty. Underlying causes of poverty; policies that might be used to combat poverty.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006, Fall 2005
PJ 5300 -
Race, Class and Gender
Description: Critical examination of the social constructions of race, class, gender, & sexuality in US culture & injustices & inequalities that arise from them. Also examines strategies, policies, & procedures for change. Writing enriched.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Summer 2008, Spring 2006, Fall 2004, Fall 2003
PJ 5400 -
Ethics, Justice and the Family
Description: The moral meaning of marriage; justice, gender, and the domestic division of labor; the legal protection of marriage and the parties to it; marriage, reproductive technology, and the commodification of children; the moral meaning of "having children"; the responsibilities of parents to their children; the responsibilities of children to their parents, with special reference to care for the aged; distributive justice and the family; society's responsibilities to serving the needs of its children. Course readings will be taken from a number of disciplines, including Christian ethics, law and legal history, philosophy, and sociology.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2007, Fall 2005, Spring 2003, Fall 2001
PJ 5500 -
Politics of Whiteness
Description: Examination of scholarship addressing the structure, function, & manifestations of "whiteness," primarily in U.S. culture, & its relationship to issues of diversity. Topics also include white supremacy, white identity, & the future of critical white studies.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Spring 2008
PJ 5600 -
Independent Study
Description: Independent Study
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2008, Spring 2008, Fall 2007, Spring 2007
PJ 5700 -
The Meanings of Justice
Description: Libertarian, socialist, welfare liberal, communitarian, feminist, and multicultural approaches to justice in contemporary literature. Consideration of recent studies of social justice in Christian ethics.
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Credit Hours: 3.0
Last Offered: Fall 2003, Fall 2001, Fall 1998, Fall 1997
Elective courses which receive Peace and Justice Credit
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