Peace and International Studies, B.A.

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The Peace and International Studies major (PAI) is designed to provide undergraduate students with the background necessary to engage with the modern world, both professionally and personally. The PAI major reviews significant international issues while focusing on the nature of, and prospects for, peace in today’s world. The combination of a basic introduction to international issues and peace studies encourages both intellectual understanding of, and active participation in, the contemporary global community. The PAI major supplements other Rockhurst major programs, providing the context in which students may both understand and transform the world around them. This interdisciplinary major is grounded in history, with additional emphases on foreign language, intercultural communication, cultural encounters, business and economics, and the moral/ethical bases of global communities.

Required courses:

Additional Requirements:

In addition, students complete 18 hours of upper-division credit hours (six courses distributed across the four elective course groupings described below. The student must also complete 12 semester hours of related upper-division courses. Coursework should be chosen in consultation with the PAI major advisor.

Historical Foundations:

Historical context is critical for understanding global issues, including politics, society, culture and thought, and economics.

Choose a minimum of nine hours (three courses) from the list of offerings on Historical Foundations.

HS 3000 - The Classical World (3)
HS 3120 - Revenge, Law, and the History of Justice (3)
HS 3250 - Europe Since 1945 (3)
HS 3450 - War & Peace in Modern Europe (3)
HS 3710 - Protest Movements in 1960s United States (3)
HS 3840 - Race and Identity in America (3)
HS 3892 - The History of African Americans since the Civil War (3)
HS 3900 - Modern China and Japan (3)
HS 3912 - History of Modern Middle East (3)
HS 3920 - Modern South Asia (3)
HS 3935 - Nonviolent Movements in the Contemporary World (3) / (PAI 3935 )

Cultural Encounters:

Choose a minimum of three hours (one course*) from the list of offerings on Cultural Encounters.

*Literature courses taught in foreign languages will not double-count for the PAI required language requirement.

EN 3870 - Irish Literature (3)
EN 4610 - African American Literature (3)
EN 4855 - Colonialism and Literature (3)
EN 4860 - The Empire Writes Back (3)
FR 3851 - Francophone Literature and Culture (3)
FR 3871 - Immigration Literature and Culture in Contemporary France (in English) (3)
or
FR 3872 - Immigration Literature and Culture in Contemporary France (3)
HS 3925 - Colonialism, Nationalism, and Decolonization (3)
HS 3800 - The Immigrants’ Experiences in America (3)
HS 3930 - Beyond the Horizon: Global Exploration (3)
HS 3055 - Crusade, Chivalry, and the Medieval Experience (3)
MS 3650 - Global Music (3)
SP 4260 - Central American Women’s Literature (3)
SP 4360 - Latin American and U.S. Latina Women’s Literature (3)
SP 4370 - U.S. Latino Literature (3)
SP 4375 - Hispanic Literature of Travel (3)
SP 4660 - Latin American Film (3)

Critical Global Systems:

Increasing global interdependence makes a basic understanding of business/economic/political/health systems essential for global citizens.

Choose a minimum of three hours (one course) from the list of offerings on Critical Global Systems.

EC 3250 - Sustainability and Environmental Policy (3)
EC 3400 - The Developing World: Economics, Politics and Culture (3)
EC 4200 - International Economics (3)
EC 4300 - Political Economy: Economics Systems of the World (3)
GE 3300 - Introduction to Human Geography (3)
HP 3500 - Perspectives in Global Health (3)
MG 3350 - Business in Global Environments (3)
PS 3355 - Inter-American Politics (IR) (3)
PS 3550 - International Relations and Organizations (IR) (3)
TH 4192 - Religion and Colonialism (3)

Ideas and Beliefs:

Intercultural awareness, including the need for peaceful co-existence, is rooted in moral/ethical considerations of the bases of human community-building, especially in the Jesuit Catholic tradition.

Choose a minimum of three hours (one course) from the list of offerings on Critical Global Systems.

CA 3000 - Catholic Social Teaching (3)
HP 4700 - Global Health Care Ethics (3)
PL 4650 - Philosophy of Justice (3)
TH 4280 - Religion, Ethnicity and Race (3)
TH 3622 - Islam (3)
TH 4001 - Hinduism (3)
TH 4181 - Religion in Latin America and the Caribbean (3)
TH 4480 - Buddhism (3)

Note:

Students must also complete 12 hours of related upper division coursework, chosen under the direction of, and in close consultation with their major advisor. A grade of C or better is required in each upper-division course of the major. (A grade of C- will not satisfy this requirement.)

One semester of college level foreign language is also required.

Students must also satisfy International/Intercultural Immersion Experience:

PAI majors will complete an approved experiential learning opportunity including internships, study abroad programs, immersion trips, or service learning trips.

The experience may be fulfilled through service learning options in other courses as deemed appropriate by the chair of the department of History or the chair’s designee.

This international/intercultural experience is required, but does not count towards a student’s 18 upper-division credit hours in Peace and International Studies.

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