Peace and Conflict Studies

Courses

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PACS 10 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Spring 2017, Fall 2016
This course introduces students to a broad range of issues, concepts, and approaches integral to the study of peace and conflict. Subject areas include the war system and war prevention, conflict resolution and nonviolence, human rights and social justice, development and environmental sustainability. Required of all Peace and Conflict Studies majors.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture and 2.5 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 7 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Sanders

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PACS 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Fall 2016, Spring 2003
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1 hour of seminar per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 2 hours of seminar per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered. Final exam required.

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PACS 94 Theory and Practice of Meditation 1 Unit [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2015, Spring 2015, Fall 2014
A practicum using a modern method for systematically reducing random activity in the mind, with comparative studies of relevant texts from monastic and householder traditions, East and West.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 2 hours of discussion per week

Summer: 6 weeks - 5 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam required.

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PACS 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Spring 2015
Group discussion, research and reporting on selected topics.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-3 hours of directed group study per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Offered for pass/not pass grade only. Final exam not required.

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PACS 100 Peace Theory: Approaches and Analyses 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Fall 2017, Spring 2017
This course will explore the historical development of the field through analysis of the operative assumptions, logic, and differing approaches of the seminal schools and thinkers that have shaped the field. Students will become familiar with the body of literature and major debates in peace studies and research.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: 10

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Instructor: Sanders

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PACS 119 Special Topics in Peace and Conflict Issues 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2018, Fall 2017, Fall 2016
Course will focus on specific issues of current research and issues in the field of peace and conflict studies. Topics will be different each term and reflect the current research of the instructor. Students will be required to do extensive reading on a weekly basis, participate in assigned projects, and complete one major research project and class presentation. Actual assignments may vary from term to term depending upon the subject.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
3 weeks - 15 hours of lecture per week
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PACS 125AC War, Culture, and Society 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2008, Fall 2007, Fall 2006
This course examines the experience and meaning of war in the formation of American culture and society. It considers the profound influence war has had in shaping the identities and life chances of succeeding generations of American men and women. It will take special note of the role of race, ethnicity, and class as prisms that filter this process. This course also explores how different interpretations of democracy and nationalism have served as a catalyst for social conflict and change in racial and ethnic identity and relations, especially as reflected in war.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PACS 126 International Human Rights 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2017, Fall 2016, Fall 2015
This course provides an overview to the historical, theoretical, political, and legal underpinnings that have shaped and continue to shape the development of human rights. Students are introduced to substantive topics within human rights and provided an opportunity to develop critical thinking, oral presentation, and writing skills. We discuss where the concept of human rights originates, how these ideas have been memorialized in international declarations and treaties, how they develop over time, and how they are enforced and monitored. We examine a variety of issues and encourage students to think differently--to analyze world and community events through a human rights framework utilizing some of the necessary tools to investigate, research, and think critically about human rights and the roles that we may assume within this arena. The course requires two six-page papers, participation in a team debate, and an independent reading assignment.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PACS 127 Human Rights and Global Politics 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Summer 2016 10 Week Session, Summer 2016 Second 6 Week Session
After World War II, we witnessed a "revolution" in human rights theory, practice, and institution building. The implications of viewing individuals as equal and endowed with certain rights is potentially far reaching as in the declaration that individuals hold many of those rights irrespective of the views of their government. Yet, we also live in a world of sovereign states with sovereign state's rights. We see everyday a clash between the rights of the individual and lack of duty to fulfill those rights when an individual's home state is unwilling or unable to do so. After introducing the idea of human rights, its historic development and various international human rights mechanisms, this course will ask what post-World War II conceptions of human rights mean for a number of specific issues including humanitarian intervention, international criminal justice, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, and economic rights. Looking in-depth at these five areas, we will ask how ideas about human rights, laws about human rights, and institutions to protect human rights have on how states and other global actors act, and how individuals have fared.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 8 hours of lecture and 2 hours of discussion per week
8 weeks - 6 hours of lecture and 1.5 hours of discussion per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

Formerly known as: 127B

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PACS 128AC Human Rights and American Cultures 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2014, Spring 2010, Spring 2007
The course analyzes the theory and practice of human rights for three groupings in the United States and examines questions of race and ethnicity as they are embedded in various international human rights instruments. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of developing systems, laws, and norms for the promotion and protection of human rights while considering each group's underlying political, literary, and cultural traditions.
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Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 4 hours of lecture per week

Summer: 8 weeks - 8 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PACS 130 Cross-Listed Topics 1 - 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2017, Spring 2016, Fall 2014
This course is designed to accommodate cross-listed courses offered through other departments, the content of which is applicable to Peace and Conflict Studies majors.
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Rules & Requirements

Prerequisites: Consent of instructor

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit without restriction.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 1-4 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 2.5-10 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 1.5-7.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PACS 135 Special Topics in Regional Conflict 3 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Spring 2018, Spring 2017, Spring 2016
Topics vary from semester to semester. The course will offer a critical interdisciplinary study of geo-political regions and the sources of their conflicts.
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Rules & Requirements

Repeat rules: Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.

Hours & Format

Fall and/or spring: 15 weeks - 3 hours of lecture per week

Summer:
6 weeks - 7.5 hours of lecture per week
8 weeks - 5.5 hours of lecture per week

Additional Details

Subject/Course Level: Peace and Conflict Studies/Undergraduate

Grading/Final exam status: Letter grade. Final exam required.

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PACS 148AC Social Movements, Urban Histories, and the Politics of Memory 4 Units [+]Expand course description

Terms offered: Fall 2016, Spring 2015, Spring 2014
Course examines the history of progressive social movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Combining history, sociology, urban geography, and ethnic studies, we ask: why and how these movements emerged? What cultural, racial, ethnic and political identities were drawn from, reconfigured, and created within these movements? What kinds of knowledge and institutions were created by these movements, and how have these legacies shaped (and been shaped by) the geography, culture, and politics of the area. As part of the ACES program, this course also engages students in creating social movement documentation through collaborations with community partners. Small student groups, supervised by an ACES Fellow, will carry out documentation projects.
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Objectives & Outcomes

Course Objectives: To collectively grapple with responsibilities, opportunities, and ethical dilemmas of community-engaged scholarship and partnership.
To engage students in broader theories and debates of knowledge production through specific examination of how movements develop analysis of poverty, justice, the state, citizenship, democracy, capitalism, race, class, gender, and history.
To examine U.S. social history (specifically urban histories of the SF Bay Area) through comparing and integrating analytical tools of a variety of theoretical traditions including: ethic studies, feminist and queer theory, working-class studies, and disability studies.
To introduce students to questions, methods, and theoretical frameworks of social movement scholarship through investigating how culture, geography, ecology, and politics of the San Francisco Bay Area have shaped and have been shaped through progressive social movements e only. Final exam not required....