2003-2004 - The University of Scranton

78 Academics
The Peace and Justice Concentration will
be an attractive complement to the academic
programs of students planning careers in law,
international relations, human services, ministry
and teaching – to name only the most
obvious. However, any students who have a
personal interest in the problems of peace and
justice, regardless of their career goals, can
benefit from its multi-disciplinary concentration
of courses. It is open to majors from all
the undergraduate schools of the University.
Eight courses (24 credits) must be taken by
students in order to have “Peace and Justice
Concentration” added to their transcript.
Courses may be taken as part of the cognate
requirement (with permission of the chairperson
of the major) or as part of the general
education requirements.
The following courses will provide students
with the opportunities to reflect critically on
the social, economic, psychological, political
and structural issues impeding the establishing
of a just and peaceful society.
A. Requirements in Theology (any two of
the following):
T/RS 231 Social Ethics
T/RS 232 John Paul II and Catholic
Social Thought
T/RS 234 Twentieth-Century Peacemaker
T/RS 236 Prophets & Profits
T/RS 237 Politics: A Christian Perspective
T/RS 239 Money and Power in the Biblical
Tradition
T/RS 313 Faith and Justice in the
Prophetic Tradition
T/RS 331 God and the Earth
T/RS 332 Jesus and the Moral Life
T/RS 334 Church and Contemporary
Social Issues
B. Electives (any five courses listed below
can be counted; others may be included with
approval from the program coordinator):
CHEM 104 Science and Society
CHS 338 Poverty, Homelessness &
Social Justice
COMM 220 Responsibility in
Communication
COMM 311 Political Communication
ECO 462 Urban and Regional
Economics
ECO 465 Development Economics
ENLT 226 Novels by Women
ENLT 228 Race in Anglo-American
Culture 1600-1860
ENLT 348 Colonial & Post-Colonial
Fiction
GEOG 217 Cultural Geography
HIST 211 The Third World
HIST 216 Race in American History
HIST 224 Ethnic and Racial Minorities
in NEPA
HS 333 Multiculturalism in Human
Services
INTD 209 The Holocaust
LIT 207 Literature of American
Minorities
MGT 473 Organizational Social
Responsibility
NSCI 201 Science and the Human
Environment
PHIL 213 Environmental Ethics
PHIL 218 Feminism: Theory & Practice
PHIL 227 Political Philosophy
PHIL 410 Philosophy of Culture
PHYS 106 Energy and the Environment
PS 227 Women, Authority and Power
PS 216 Women’s Rights & Status
PSYC 220 Social Psychology
S/CJ 210 Law and Society
SOC 116 Community Organization
SOC 224 American Minority Groups
SPAN 314 Topics in Latin American
Culture & Civilization
C. Integrative Capstone Course (required
in junior/senior year):
T/JP 310 3 cr.
Toward a Just and Peaceful World
This course will reflect on the various issues and
problems raised by peace and justice study. It will
consider the relationship of religion, moral philosophy
and the social/political concerns embraced
in the quest for a human world order. Faculty
from several disciplines will make presentations.
Each student will write a paper from the perspective
of his/her major area of concentration.
Women’s Studies Concentration
Sharon M. Meagher, Ph.D., Director
The Women’s Studies Concentration consists
of courses that examine women’s experiences
and the ways gender-related issues affect
human lives and cultures. Faculty and students
analyze the ways gender roles and
images, and assumptions about gender, are
reflected in art, business, literature, law, philosophy,
public policy, religion, language, history,
the sciences, and their own lives. At the
same time many Women’s Studies courses will