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Lewis University offers both a Bachelor of Arts and a minor in Peace and Justice Studies (PJS). 在PJS专业, students will develop their capacity to have an impact on advancing just peace through critical awareness of injustices and the vision and ability to transform them. PJS majors and minors will cultivate knowledge and skills that work toward conflict transformation, civic interfaith leadership, nonviolent strategic action, and peacebuilding through focusing the just peace lens while engaging with diverse communities.
课程
Peace and Justice Studies is an interdisciplinary field that draws on areas of study such as political science, 社会学, 历史, 神学, 心理学, 哲学, 和其他人. In the Lewis University program, core courses – 18 credits for the major and 10 credits for the minor – provide a foundation for the skills and art of just peacebuilding while integrating interfaith studies. Students will choose an area of specialization from five flexible pathways based on personal interests and career goals to complete their degree.
通路
Five different pathways are available for students to pursue based on personal interests and career goals. 途径是:
Conflict Transformation – Aims to transform negative destructive conflict into positive constructive conflict in order to foster human thriving and enact just systems. (modified from definition by the Berghof Foundation)
Restorative/Transformative Justice – Regards crime as a harm to those impacted by it and seeks to heal the harm experienced by actors, survivors and community members, rather than punishing and silencing those involved.
Human Rights and Equitable Development – Explores the conditions and systems which deprive persons of their freedoms, proper agency and rights, and then seeks to study and create ways to ensure access and full exercise of those rights to participate fully in human community.
Women and Gender Equity and Inclusion – Examines gender as a social and cultural construction and draws on feminist lenses and methods to examine local and global systems of privilege and oppression, and relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities such as race, 性取向, 社会经济类, 和diverse-ability. (改编自Shaw & 李,2014).
Interfaith and Intercultural Bridgebuilding – Connects persons and communities across religious traditions and cultural contexts to work side-by-side toward mutually identified goals that prosper the common good.
样本类
- 国际 Human Rights
- Multicultural Issues in Criminal Justice
- Sustainable Communities
- Psychology of Minority Experience
- 暴力与和平
- Global Educational Systems
的职业领域
研究生s of the Peace and Justice Studies degree will be prepared for a wide variety of careers. A few of the many possibilities follow.
- Diversity, equity and inclusion officer
- 教育家
- 谈判代表
- 中介
- 律师
- human rights advocate
- environmental conservationist
- 社区组织者
- restorative justice practitioner
入学 REQUIREMENTS
请参阅 招生办公室 for application requirements and specific next steps. For more information contact the 招生办公室 at admission@lsqn.net or call (815) 836-5250.
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