Student Learning Outcomes

• Students gain an understanding of recent history, contemporary social/political problems and ethical values.
• Students gain an understanding of  how the language, law, philosophies, and practices of peace and  justice apply to contemporary issues facing our world.
• Students are able to identify the critical ethical/moral responses to social justice issues of violence, injustice, poverty, and ecological degradation.

Objectives

• To increase knowledge and awareness of basic issues of war, peace, justice and nonviolence.
• To generate openness for the study of social, racial and gender equality.
• To produce dialogue and scholarship on how to create a more just and peaceful world.