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Peace and Conflict Studies

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Peace and Conflict Studies

Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) is an interdisciplinary program of study with a well-developed theoretical and research base that drives its practical and applied components. The PACS program at UFV focuses on conflict at the personal, communal, national, and international levels with the intent of having students develop their own viable prospects for peacebuilding in these troubled contexts.

The program incorporates development of a diverse set of skills, such as conflict analysis, conflict transformation, interpersonal skills, compassion, sensitivity, confrontation, consensus building, intercultural communication, and strategies for reconciliation.

In addition to studying in classroom settings, students will acquire hands-on experience in conflict transformation and reconciliatory work that builds peaceful relationships in their own lives, in their communities, and in the broader world.

The PACS major and minor are available within the Bachelor of Arts. Please refer to the Bachelor of Arts section for information on entrance requirements.

Peace and Conflict Studies major

This section specifies the major discipline requirements only. Information on additional Bachelor of Arts requirements begins in this section and includes the requirements for declaring a major. Please check the Bachelor of Arts residency section of the calendar for how many upper-level credits must be completed at UFV in order to graduate with this program.

Declaration requirements

Students can declare a Peace and Conflict Studies major after completion of at least 30 university-level credits, with a minimum CGPA of 2.00 on all credits attempted, and a minimum grade of C in both PACS 100 and PACS 200.

Program outline

Lower-level requirements: 18 credits

Course Title Credits
PACS 100 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies 3
PACS 200 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding in the Fraser Valley 3
PACS 201 Equity-Based Dialogue and Engagement 3
or PACS 202 Introduction to Mediating Conflict  
SJGS 100 Social Justice for Social Change 3
or SJGS 101 Stewardship for Justice and Reconciliation  
One of: (Conflict Analysis: Individual and Society) 3
CMNS 180 Introduction to Intercultural Communication  
GDS 260 Gender and Global Development  
HSER 120 Interpersonal Communications for Human Services  
IPK 207 Introduction to Canadian Indian Residential Schools (discontinued)  
PHIL 110 Introduction to Ethics and Moral Problems  
POSC 100 Introduction to Politics  
POSC 260 International Relations and Global Politics  
SOC 230 The Individual and Society  
SOC 265 Social Inequality  
SOC 270/ ANTH 270/ MACS 270 Dynamics of Racism in Canada  
SOWK 283 Introduction to Social Work Practice with Families  
One of: (Peacebuilding) 3
ANTH 130 Religions and Cultures  
ANTH 220/ GDS 220 Anthropology of Globalization and Development  
CMNS 280 Team and Small Group Communication for the Workplace  
CRIM 215 Theory and Practice of Restorative Justice  
ENV 200 Living in Our Watershed  
GDS 100/ GEOG 109 A World of Development  
GDS 250/ SOC 250 Sociology of Development — The Global South  
GEOG 111 Environmental Issues and Strategies  
GEOG 257/ CMNS 257 Environment: Science and Communications  
IPK 206 Stó:lō and Salish Communications and Worldview (formerly FNST 201)  
MACS 110 Introduction to Communication Studies  

Upper-level requirements: 30 credits

Upper-level requirements include 15 credits of foundation courses and a minimum 15 credits of electives. Depending on the courses chosen, students will take either one or two Conflict Analysis courses in addition to three Peacebuilding courses.

Course Title Credits
IPK 386 Braiding Indigenous Knowledges, Practices, and Worldviews 3
PACS 300 Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding 3
PACS 310 Conflict Transformation 3
PACS 390 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Directed Study 3
or PACS 391 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Field Work  
PACS 400 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Seminar 3
One or two of: (Conflict Analysis: National and International) 3-6
CRIM 311 Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada  
CRIM 400 Terrorism  
GDS 332 Refugees, Displacement, and Development  
GDS 370 Fundamentals of Global Health and Development  
GEOG 323 Geography of War, Terrorism, and Peace  
HIST 320 The Holocaust  
HIST 335 History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  
HIST 418 The Great War, 1914–1918  
HIST 420 World War II  
HIST 460/ LAS 460 State Terror, Human Rights, and the Politics of Memory in Latin America  
POSC 301 The Canadian State and Indigenous Governance  
POSC 321 Global Issues in Indigenous Politics  
POSC 324 Nationalism and Ethnic Politics  
POSC 365 War, Terrorism, and Global Security  
PSYC 368 Political Psychology  
Three of: (Peacebuilding: National and International; Sustainability) 9-12
ANTH 367/ ENGL 367 Culture and Theory of Diaspora  
CRIM 335 Justice and Human Rights  
ENV 310 Leadership in Environmental Professions  
GDS 330/ ANTH 330 Humanitarianism and Complex Emergencies  
GEOG 312 Nature, Power, and Place  
GDS 340/ GEOG 340 Geographies of Development: Landscapes of Inequality  
HIST 327 Settler-Indigenous Relations in New Zealand and Canada  
HIST 431 Canada and the World  
IPK 302 Colonial Trauma, Residential Schools, and Resilience  
IPK 477/ BIO 477 Traditional Ecological Knowledges  
PHIL 318 Environmental Ethics  
POSC 330 Politics of Human Rights  
POSC 331 Western Peace Traditions  
POSC 335 Courts and Politics  
POSC 360 The United Nations and International Organizations  
POSC 368 Global Issues and Canadian Foreign Policy  
PSYC 364 Environmental Psychology  
SOC 346 Environmental Justice  
VA 390 Community Arts Practice  

 

Peace and Conflict Studies minor

This section specifies the major discipline requirements only. Information on additional Bachelor of Arts requirements begins in this section and includes the requirements for delcaring a minor. Please check the Bachelor of Arts residency section of the calendar for how many upper-level credits must be completed at UFV in order to graduate with this program.

Declaration requirements

Students can declare a Peace and Conflict Studies minor after completion of at least 30 university-level credits, with a minimum CGPA of 2.00 on all credits attempted, and a minimum grade of C in both PACS 100 and PACS 200.

Program outline

Lower-level requirements: 12 credits

Course Title Credits
PACS 100 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies 3
PACS 200 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding in the Fraser Valley 3
PACS 201 Equity-Based Dialogue and Engagement 3
or PACS 202 Introduction to Mediating Conflict  
SJGS 100 Social Justice for Social Change 3
or SJGS 101 Stewardship for Justice and Reconciliation  

Upper-level requirements: 15-17 credits

Course Title Credits
PACS 300 Religion, Violence, and Peacebuilding 3
PACS 310 Conflict Transformation 3
or IPK 386 Braiding Indigenous Knowledges, Practices, and Worldviews  
One of: 3
PACS 390 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Directed Study  
PACS 391 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Field Work  
PACS 400 Conflict Analysis and Peacebuilding Seminar  
One of: (Conflict Analysis: National and International) 3-4
CRIM 311 Diversity, Crime, and Criminal Justice in Canada  
CRIM 400 Terrorism  
GDS 332 Refugees, Displacement, and Development  
GDS 370 Fundamentals of Global Health and Development  
GEOG 323 Geography of War, Terrorism, and Peace  
HIST 320 The Holocaust  
HIST 335 History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict  
HIST 418 The Great War, 1914–1918  
HIST 420 World War II  
HIST 460/ LAS 460 State Terror, Human Rights, and the Politics of Memory in Latin America  
POSC 301 The Canadian State and Indigenous Governance  
POSC 321 Global Issues in Indigenous Politics  
POSC 324 Nationalism and Ethnic Politics  
POSC 365 War, Terrorism, and Global Security  
PSYC 368 Political Psychology  
One of: (Peacebuilding: National and International; Sustainability) 3-4
ANTH 367/ ENGL 367 Culture and Theory of Diaspora  
CRIM 335 Justice and Human Rights  
ENV 310 Leadership in Environmental Professions  
GDS 330/ ANTH 330 Humanitarianism and Complex Emergencies  
GEOG 312 Nature, Power, and Place  
GDS 340/ GEOG 340 Geographies of Development: Landscapes of Inequality  
HIST 327 Settler-Indigenous Relations in New Zealand and Canada  
HIST 431 Canada and the World  
IPK 302 Colonial Trauma, Residential Schools, and Resilience  
IPK 477/ BIO 477 Traditional Ecological Knowledges  
PHIL 318 Environmental Ethics  
POSC 330 Politics of Human Rights  
POSC 331 Western Peace Traditions  
POSC 335 Courts and Politics  
POSC 360 The United Nations and International Organizations  
POSC 368 Global Issues and Canadian Foreign Policy  
PSYC 364 Environmental Psychology  
SOC 346 Environmental Justice  
VA 390 Community Arts Practice  

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For complete details on courses see the course descriptions section.


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