Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS)
PACS 10 Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 7 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture and 2.5 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
This course introduces students to a broad range of issues, concepts, and approaches integral to the study of peace and conflict. Subject areas include the war system and war prevention, conflict resolution and nonviolence, human rights and social justice, development and environmental sustainability. Required of all Peace and Conflict Studies majors.
Instructor: Sanders
PACS 24 Freshman Seminar 1 Unit
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: The grading option will be decided by the instructor when the class is offered.
Hours and format: 1 hour of Seminar per week for 15 weeks. 2 hours of Seminar per week for 8 weeks.
The Freshman Seminar Program has been designed to provide new students with the opportunity to explore an intellectual topic with a faculty member in a small seminar setting. Freshman seminars are offered in all campus departments, and topics vary from department to department and semester to semester. Enrollment is limited to 15 freshmen.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 94 Theory and Practice of Meditation 1 Unit
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 2 hours of discussion and practice per week for 15 weeks. 5 hours of discussion and practice per week for 6 weeks.
A practicum using a modern method for systematically reducing random activity in the mind, with comparative studies of relevant texts from monastic and householder traditions, East and West.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 98 Directed Group Study 1 - 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hours of lecture/group study per week.
Group discussion, research and reporting on selected topics.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 100 Peace Theory: Approaches and Analyses 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 10.
This course will explore the historical development of the field through analysis of the operative assumptions, logic, and differing approaches of the seminal schools and thinkers that have shaped the field. Students will become familiar with the body of literature and major debates in peace studies and research.
Instructor: Sanders
PACS 119 Special Topics in Peace and Conflict Issues 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks. 15 hours of Lecture per week for 3 weeks.
Course will focus on specific issues of current research and issues in the field of peace and conflict studies. Topics will be different each term and reflect the current research of the instructor. Students will be required to do extensive reading on a weekly basis, participate in assigned projects, and complete one major research project and class presentation. Actual assignments may vary from term to term depending upon the subject.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 125AC War, Culture, and Society 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 10 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course examines the experience and meaning of war in the formation of American culture and society. It considers the profound influence war has had in shaping the identities and life chances of succeeding generations of American men and women. It will take special note of the role of race, ethnicity, and class as prisms that filter this process. This course also explores how different interpretations of democracy and nationalism have served as a catalyst for social conflict and change in racial and ethnic identity and relations, especially as reflected in war.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
PACS 126 International Human Rights 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course provides an overview to the historical, theoretical, political, and legal underpinnings that have shaped and continue to shape the development of human rights. Students are introduced to substantive topics within human rights and provided an opportunity to develop critical thinking, oral presentation, and writing skills. We discuss where the concept of human rights originates, how these ideas have been memorialized in international declarations and treaties, how they develop over time, and how they are enforced and monitored. We examine a variety of issues and encourage students to think differently--to analyze world and community events through a human rights framework utilizing some of the necessary tools to investigate, research, and think critically about human rights and the roles that we may assume within this arena. The course requires two six-page papers, participation in a team debate, and an independent reading assignment.
PACS 127 Human Rights and Global Politics 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture and 1 hour of Discussion per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture and 1.5 hours of Discussion per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture and 2 hours of Discussion per week for 6 weeks.
After World War II, we witnessed a "revolution" in human rights theory, practice, and institution building. The implications of viewing individuals as equal and endowed with certain rights is potentially far reaching as in the declaration that individuals hold many of those rights irrespective of the views of their government. Yet, we also live in a world of sovereign states with sovereign state's rights. We see everyday a clash between the rights of the individual and lack of duty to fulfill those rights when an individual's home state is unwilling or unable to do so. After introducing the idea of human rights, its historic development and various international human rights mechanisms, this course will ask what post-World War II conceptions of human rights mean for a number of specific issues including humanitarian intervention, international criminal justice, U.S. foreign policy, immigration, and economic rights. Looking in-depth at these five areas, we will ask how ideas about human rights, laws about human rights, and institutions to protect human rights have on how states and other global actors act, and how individuals have fared.
Formerly known as 127B.
PACS 128AC Human Rights and American Cultures 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
The course analyzes the theory and practice of human rights for three groupings in the United States and examines questions of race and ethnicity as they are embedded in various international human rights instruments. The course utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to the study of developing systems, laws, and norms for the promotion and protection of human rights while considering each group's underlying political, literary, and cultural traditions.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
PACS 130 Cross-Listed Topics 1 - 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 1 to 4 hour of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 1.5 to 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 2.5 to 10 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor.
This course is designed to accommodate cross-listed courses offered through other departments, the content of which is applicable to Peace and Conflict Studies majors.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 135 Special Topics in Regional Conflict 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Topics vary from semester to semester. The course will offer a critical interdisciplinary study of geo-political regions and the sources of their conflicts.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 148AC/IAS 158AC Social Movements, Urban Histories, and the Politics of Memory 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies; International and Area Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of lecture and 1 hour of discussion per week.
Course examines the history of progressive social movements in the San Francisco Bay Area. Combining history, sociology, urban geography, and ethnic studies, we ask: why and how these movements emerged? What cultural, racial, ethnic and political identities were drawn from, reconfigured, and created within these movements? What kinds of knowledge and institutions were created by these movements, and how have these legacies shaped (and been shaped by) the geography, culture, and politics of the area. As part of the ACES program, this course also engages students in creating social movement documentation through collaborations with community partners. Small student groups, supervised by an ACES Fellow, will carry out documentation projects.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Course Objectives: - To introduce students to questions, methods, and theoretical frameworks of social movement scholarship through investigating how culture, geography, ecology, and politics of the San Francisco Bay Area have shaped and have been shaped through progressive social movements - To examine U.S. social history (specifically urban histories of the SF Bay Area) through comparing and integrating analytical tools of a variety of theoretical traditions including: ethic studies, feminist and queer theory, working-class studies, and disability studies - To engage students in broader theories and debates of knowledge production through specific examination of how movements develop analysis of poverty, justice, the state, citizenship, democracy, capitalism, race, class, gender, and history - To introduce students to various methods of community history documentation - To collectively grapple with responsibilities, opportunities, and ethical dilemmas of community-engaged scholarship and partnership.
Instructor: Burns
PACS 149 Global Change and World Order 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 5.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course will analyze emerging trends, patterns, and problems associated with the phenomenon of globalization. Particular attention will be given to world economic and social integration, ethno-religious nationalism and identity politics, domestic politics, and foreign policy. Special emphasis is placed on the prospects of peace and world order in the post-cold war era.
Instructor: Sanders
PACS 150 Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
This course will investigate theories of individual and group conflict as a conceptual framework for practical application. Students will engage in practice as parties to conflicts and as third-party intervenors. The course will look at the sources of conflict, including multicultural aspects, and will emphasize the opportunities for growth and development in conflictive incidents.
PACS 150AC Conflict Resolution: Theory and Practice 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
This course explores the nature of interpersonal and group conflict, resolution, and their relationship to culture. The course examines the intersection between conflict and race and ethnicity in particular, with an emphasis on the major racial/ethnic groups in the United States. Other dimensions of diversity such as gender, class, and sexual orientation in conflict situations are also explored. The goal is to apply this understanding to resolving intercultural conflicts through mediation.
Satisfies the American Cultures requirement
Students will receive no credit for 150AC after taking 150.
PACS 151 International Conflict: Analysis and Resolution 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Inspired by the changed meaning of international conflict and the expanding mission of conflict resolution in the post-cold war era, this course will study the contemporary context and issues of conflict by examining the evolution in thinking about conflict, the resolution, and their application in practice.
Instructor: Sanders
PACS 154 Multicultural Conflict Resolution 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 4 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks.
Prerequisites: 150 and 153, or consent of instructor.
This course will investigate the special issues involved with facilitating resolution of cross/multicultural conflicts. Topics will include cultural contrasts (e.g., values, communication, and problem solving styles), mediator (facilitator/negotiator), credibility, cultural (including gender) contributions to conflict resolution and unique ethical dilemmas. Course includes field immersion, conflict resolution process evaluation and design, and the opportunity to participate in mediation of a cultural mediation.
Students will receive no credit for 154 after taking 154AC.
PACS 164A Introduction to Nonviolence 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 6 hours of Lecture per week for 8 weeks. 8 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
An introduction to the science of nonviolence, mainly as seen through the life and work of Mahatma Gandhi. Historical overview of nonviolence East and the West up to the American Civil Rights movement and Martin Luther King, Jr., with emphasis on the ideal of principled nonviolence and the reality of mixed or strategic nonviolence in practice, especially as applied to problems of social justice and defense.
Students will receive .6 units for 164A after taking 164.
PACS 164B Nonviolence Today 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks. 7.5 hours of Lecture per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: 164A or consent of instructor.
The development of nonviolence since the Civil Rights movement. Nonviolent theory and practice seen in recent insurrectionary movements (freedom struggles), social justice struggles, nonviolent intervention across borders and protection of the environment in the emerging world of global corporatism.
Students will receive 2.4 units for 164B after taking 164.
PACS 170 Conflict Resolution, Social Change, and the Cultures of Peace 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Term course may be offered: Spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Lecture per week for 15 weeks.
A comprehensive exploration of the concepts and processes of conflict resolution, using this term in the broadest sense. In particular, the course elaborates upon the relationships among conflict resolution, social change, and cultures of peace with examples drawn from the domestic and global levels.
PACS 190 Senior Seminar 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of Seminar per week for 15 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing. Course should be taken in final year of study and is only open to PACS majors.
Students prepare a major analytical paper synthesizing what they have learned in the major and give an oral presentation on their area of concentration. Students review literature and issues of peace and conflict studies appropriate to focus of senior paper and participate in regular consultations with instructor scheduled outside of class hours in preparing paper for presentation. All students will be expected to read and critique a common core of literature as well as readings specific to their concentration.
PACS 195 Senior Thesis 3 - 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of research per unit per week.
Prerequisites: Senior standing in PACS.
Research paper or suitable research project done under the direct supervision of a faculty sponsor. Subject must be approved by faculty sponsor no later than the preceding semester in which the course is to be taken.
PACS H195 Senior Honors Thesis Seminar 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Spring and summer
Grading: Letter grade.
Hours and format: 3 hours of seminar and 1 hour of consultation per week. 6 hours of seminar and 2 hours of consultation per week for 8 weeks. 7.5 hours of seminar and 2.5 hours of consultation per week for 6 weeks.
Prerequisites: Senior standing; 3.6 GPA in major; 3.5 GPA overall in coursework undertaken at Berkeley; International and Area Studies 102; and consent of instructor.
Students are required to research and write a thesis based on the prospectus developed in International and Area Studies 102 or a prospectus approved by the instructor before the first class meeting. The thesis work is conducted in regular consultation with the Honors Seminar instructor and a second topic expert reader to be selected based upon the thesis topic. Weekly progress reports and written work are required.
PACS 197 Field Studies 1 - 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Field work and independent meetings with faculty sponsor.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing, consent of instructor and PACS chair.
Supervised experience relevant to specific aspects of Peace and Conflict Studies in off-campus organizations. Regular individual meetings with faculty sponsor and written reports required.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 198 Directed Group Study for Upper Division Students 1 - 3 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall and spring
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Variable.
Prerequisites: 2.0 GPA, upper division standing.
Group discussion, research, and reporting on selected topics. Student initiation in choice of subjects is solicited and welcome.
Course may be repeated for credit as topic varies. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
PACS 199 Supervised Independent Study 1 - 4 Units
Department: Peace and Conflict Studies
Course level: Undergraduate
Terms course may be offered: Fall, spring and summer
Grading: Offered for pass/not pass grade only.
Hours and format: Tutorial.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing and consent of instructor.
Supervised independent study or research on topics relevant to Peace and Conflict Studies that are not covered in depth by other courses. Topics to be covered are initiated by students.
Course may be repeated for credit. Course may be repeated for credit when topic changes.
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