Peace

This is an interdisciplinary capstone course meant to consolidate student experience of a program that integrates scholarship, theory, policy and practice perspectives, library, field, and lab research. In addition to devoting close attention to reading and research on course themes, we will attend to the details and difficulties of writing and presenting one’s own work to diverse audiences. The course will provide opportunities for students working on theses or other projects within their majors to present work to an interdisciplinary audience of peers. Students will take part in teaching the course, and will also plan a conference-style event together, present work there in collaborative panels, and comment on peers’ work both formally and informally. Tools and knowledge gathered beginning with PEAC 101 and 201 and continuing through focused study will be revisited and recombined in search of innovative solutions to problems. Students will be encouraged to look critically at their own social justice philosophies and disciplinary methods, and reflect on how practice and theory are, at the same time, challenges to each other and yet not strictly separable. This is also a site at which collaborative work may help students begin to envision innovative new solutions to entrenched problems.