SearchJustice and Peace Minor
Program Description: The minor in Justice and Peace Studies consists of 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 the gives rise to intellectual inquiry and moral reflection.”
All of the following:
JPS 365 Faith and Moral Development
JPS 565 Catholic Social Teaching
JPS 499 Senior Seminar
JPS 588 Christian Ethics of War and Peace
Service Learning
(One of the following):
JPS 331 Jesus Christ: Liberator
JPS 335 Jesus Christ: Yesterday and Today
JPS 341 Ecclesiology in Context: the Church in El Salvador
JPS 360 Social Justice in Theory and Practice
JPS 361 Social Justice and Service: Applications in the D.R.
Social Science
(One of the following):
PLS 319 Politics Developing World
PLS 339 Public Policy and Poverty in the US
PLS 435 Global Poverty and Development
PLS 481 Poverty, Development, and Public Policy
SOC 223 Social Problems
SOC 341 American Cultural Minorities
SOC 350 Social Change
SOC 411 Social Inequality and Stratification