Jul 02, 2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
OHIO University Undergraduate Catalog 2023-2024
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INST 4950 - War and Peace Studies Seminar
The aim is of the course is to question the root causes of violence and to explore pathways to sustainable peace from a multidisciplinary perspective.
Requisites: Sr only
Credit Hours: 3
OHIO BRICKS Capstone: Capstone or Culminating Experience
General Education Code (students who entered prior to Fall 2021-22): 3
Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
Lecture/Lab Hours: 3.0 seminar
Grades: Eligible Grades: A-F,WP,WF,WN,FN,AU,I
Learning Outcomes:
- Students will acquire cross-cultural understandings of peace traditions and conflict patterns.
- Students will be able to present and explain their research findings effectively to an audience containing students from a variety of major disciplines.
- Students will be able to secure information from a variety of sources and acquire increasingly complex intellectual skills.
- Students will gain the capacity for synthesis through weaving complex strands of social and economic dynamics into of definable issues of war and peace.
- Students will have a sense of responsibility in working towards sustainable peace.
- Students will have the ability to make independent judgments on conflict and to carry out constructive changes towards sustainable peace.
- Students will learn how to work collaboratively with students from a variety of major disciplines through focused group discussions and debates.
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