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Environment, Peace and Justice - Minor

The Environment, Peace and Justice minor provides a unique perspective on critical issues facing our world today and equips you with the knowledge and skills needed to promote environmental sustainability and social justice. Enroll now and make a difference in your community and the world. 

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Challenges to both peace and the environment are often deeply interrelated, with one impacting the other and feeding back.

For example, where environmental degradation unevenly impacts already-marginalized communities and becomes a source of conflict or when the breakdown of peace due to historical or protracted injustice impacts the environment and our ability to protect it in nonviolent ways.

Globally, justice is a well-recognized pillar of both sustainable development and sustainable peace, emphasizing that these challenges need to be met in integrated ways. Undeniably, our awareness of the natural environment and environmental issues and how they intersect with issues of social justice and conflict is increasing, as is the wider societal need to address issues of the environment, justice, and peace in integrated ways.

This new Minor in Environment, Peace and Justice brings together these important aspirations, meeting students’ interests and the growing need to prepare them with the conceptual, theoretical foundations and applied skills to effectively transform these issues in tandem. The program emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing on relevant courses offered through different departments to offer a minor that can complement a range of majors.

The Minor in Environment, Peace and Justice, will help you successfully:

  • Engage with interdisciplinary and critical theory, concepts and case studies to understand a variety of issues and underlying challenges to protecting the environment, peace and justice.
  • Demonstrate knowledge through the ability to connect, analyze, and communicate a wide range of social justice issues and challenges with the environment and peace.
  • Identify or propose peaceful or nonviolent approaches that comprehensively address environmental problems and social and ecological injustices.

Program Information for Environment, Peace and Justice - Minor

Program Description

Full Description

The Environment, Peace and Justice minor meets a number of different goals, responding to students’ interests and the growing need to prepare them with the conceptual and theoretical foundations and applied skills to address challenges to both peace and the environment in tandem.

Challenges to both peace and the environment are often deeply interrelated, with one impacting the other and feeding back. For example, where environmental degradation unevenly impacts already-marginalized communities and becomes a source of conflict, or when the breakdown of peace due to historical or protracted injustice impacts the environment and our ability to protect it in nonviolent ways. Globally, justice is a well-recognized pillar of both sustainable development and sustainable peace, emphasizing that these challenges need to be met in integrated ways.

The program emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach by drawing on relevant courses offered through different departments to offer a minor that can complement a range of majors.

Admissions for Environment, Peace and Justice - Minor

Admission Requirements

Admission to a minor is open to students declared in a bachelor’s degree, the A.A.B. or A.A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree (not Individualized Program major). Students declared only in the A.A. or A.S. degree or the A.T.S. degree in Individualized Program may not declare a minor. Students may not pursue a minor and a major in the same discipline.

Learning Outcomes

Program Learning Outcomes

Graduates of this program will be able to:

  1. Engage with interdisciplinary and critical theory, concepts and case studies to understand a variety of issues and underlying challenges to protecting the environment, peace and justice.
  2. Demonstrate knowledge through the ability to connect, analyze and communicate a wide range of social justice issues and challenges with the environment and peace.
  3. Identify or propose peaceful or nonviolent approaches that comprehensively address environmental problems and social and ecological injustices.
Coursework
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Program Requirements

Minor Requirements

Minor Requirements
ENVS 22070NATURE AND SOCIETY (KSS) 3
PACS 11001INTRODUCTION TO CONFLICT MANAGEMENT (DIVD) (KSS) 3
PACS 35050ENVIRONMENTAL CONFLICT RESOLUTION 3
PACS 45060ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE 3
Minor Electives, choose from the following:9
AFS 47122
SEMINAR IN ACTIVISM AND SOCIAL CHANGE
ANTH 48220
CULTURAL ECOLOGY AND SUSTAINABILITY
ENVS 46092
INTERNSHIP IN ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES (ELR) 1
GEOG 31070
POPULATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT
GEOG 41077
WATER AND SOCIETY
GEOG 41800
GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
GEOG 46060
FOOD SECURITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
MGMT 44009
THE BUSINESS CASE FOR SUSTAINABILITY
PACS 31003
NONVIOLENCE: THEORY AND PRACTICE
PACS 35092
INTERNSHIP IN PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES (ELR) 1
PACS 40089
INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE: PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES (DIVG) (ELR) 1
PACS 40090
STUDY AWAY: PEACE AND CONFLICT STUDIES (ELR) 1
PHIL 30025
ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS (ELR)
PHIL 31035
PHILOSOPHY AND JUSTICE (DIVD)
POL 40440
U.S. ENVIRONMENTAL POLITICS AND POLICIES
POL 40560
HUMAN RIGHTS AND SOCIAL JUSTICE (DIVG)
POL 40620
POLITICS OF SOCIAL MOVEMENTS (DIVD)
SOC 42565
ENVIRONMENTAL SOCIOLOGY
Minimum Total Credit Hours:21
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Maximum 3 credit hours of one of the following experiential courses may be applied toward minor electives: ENVS 46092, PACS 35092, PACS 40089, PACS 40090, if related to environment, peace and justice and approved by coordinator.

 

Graduation Requirements

Minimum Minor GPA Minimum Overall GPA
2.000 2.000
  • Minimum 6 credit hours in the minor must be upper-division coursework (30000 and 40000 level).
  • Minimum 6 credit hours in the minor must be outside of the course requirements for any major or other minor the student is pursuing.
  • Minimum 50 percent of the total credit hours for the minor must be taken at Kent State (in residence).
Program Delivery
  • Delivery:
    • In person
  • Location:
    • Kent Campus
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