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The goal of the bi-college concentration is
to help focus students’ coursework around specific areas
of interest to peace and conflict studies.
The concentration is composed of a six-course
cluster centering around conflict and cooperation within and
between nations. Of these six courses, at least two and no
more than three may be in the student’s major. The peace
and conflict studies concentration draws upon the long-standing
interest in war, conflict and peacemaking, and social justice,
as well as questions associated with the fields of anthropology,
economics, history, political science, social psychology,
and sociology. It draws on these fields for theoretical understandings
of matters such as bargaining, internal causes of conflict,
cooperative and competitive strategies of negotiation, intergroup
relations, and the role of institutions in conflict management.
Students meet with the coordinator in the spring
of their sophomore year to work out a plan for the concentration.
All concentrators are required to take three core courses:
the introductory course, General Programs 111a; either Political
Science 206 or General Programs 322; and Political Science
347. It is advised that concentrators complete at least two
of these three courses by the end of their junior year.
Students are required to take three additional
courses in consultation with the coordinator, working out
a plan that focuses this second half of their concentration
regionally, conceptually, or around a particular substantive
problem. These courses might include: international conflict
and resolution, ethnic conflict in general or in a specific
region of the world (e.g. South Africa, the Middle East, Northern
Ireland); a theoretical approach to the field, such as nonviolence,
bargaining, or game theory; an applied approach, such as reducing
violence among youth, the arts and peacemaking, community
mediation, or labor relations.
COORDINATORS
Coordinator
Professor Marc Howard Ross, Coordinator
Faculty
Visiting Assistant Professor Tamara Neuman
COURSES
COURSES OFFERED AT BRYN MAWR
ANTH B261 Palestine and Israeli Society
ANTH B342 Middle Eastern Diasporas
POLS B111 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
POLS B347 Advanced Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Genocide
COURSES OFFERED AT HAVERFORD
HIST H209 Modern Latin America
HIST H240 History and Principles of Quakerism
ICPR H111 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies
ICPR H281 Violence and Public Health
POLS H245 The State System
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