The 16-credit interdisciplinary minor in Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) equips you with the analytical tools to examine conflicts around the world and develop the skills to understand and foster peace-building efforts. Through coursework that you can complete across the university – both in New York and at NYU sites around the world – you will have opportunities to explore a wide range of issues from war and terrorism to cultivating peace and civil resistance. This minor is open to all undergraduates at NYU who have completed at least one semester.
Core Course Sequence
You will come together with students from diverse programs of study who have a shared passion to better understand current events, learn how to critically analyze conflict and peacebuilding efforts, and gain skills to engage in the world. We are proud to often hear that the PACS minor is the most impactful part of our students’ undergraduate careers!
In the order of your choosing, you will complete 4 PACS-related courses: 1 required anchor course as an introduction to peace and conflict studies; 1 restricted elective from a choice of two focused on conflict, education and human rights; and 2 unrestricted electives that you select from a wide variety of options. Approval can be requested for other electives to count towards the minor and some PACS classes may also count towards your major or other programs of study.
Our talented PACS minor graduates have gone on to careers in the United Nations, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, human rights monitoring and advocacy, and international development work. One early PACS graduate, now working at a peacebuilding organization, even hired a more recent PACS graduate! Our faculty also write many reference letters for our PACS students, who have gone on to prestigious graduate programs in the United States and around the world in peace and conflict studies, international relations, human rights, law, international development, political science, journalism, or international education, among other disciplines.
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Analyzing and Explaining Conflict and Violence
GT-UF 201 Global Violence: Vulnerable and Targeted Peoples (4 credits)
HIST-UA 569 Topics: Empire and Decolonization (4 credits)
MCC-UE 1200 Inquiry Seminar: Representing Mass Atrocities in Africa (4 credits)
MCC-UE 1351 War as Media (4 credits)
POL-UA 700 International Politics (4 credits)
POL-UA 710 US Foreign Policy (4 credits)
SOC-UA 472 The Sociology of Conflict and War (4 credits)
UPADM-GP 430 Intelligence and National Security Policymaking (4 credits)Peace, Justice, and Development
FOOD-UE 1210 Introduction to Food History (4 credits)
GT-UF 201 Topics: NGO Narratives: Global Humanitarianism: From Development to Disaster (4 credits)
MCC-UE 1413 Cultural Memory (4 credits)
UNDSW-US 66 Global Perspectives in International Social Policy (4 credits)
UNDSW-US 67 Social Justice and Peacemaking (4 credits)Human Rights and Advocacy
GT-UF 201 Topics: International Human Rights (4 credits)
GT-UF 201 Trauma Studies in the Age of Globalization (4 credits)
SCAI-UF 401 Youth in Revolt: Case Studies in Global Activism (4 credits)
SCAI-UF 401 Justice and Rights Movements: Let Them Lead the Way (4 credits)
UPADM-GP 269 How to Change the World: Advocacy Movements and Social Innovation (4 credits)International and Area Studies
HIST-UA 750 US-Latin American Relations (4 credits)
HIST-UA 277 Worlds of World War One (4 credits)
MCC-UE 1341 Middle East Media (4 credits)
MEIS-UA 697 Palestine, Zionism, Israel (4 credits)
SCA-UA 721 Issues and Ideas: Challenges, Issues and Ideas in Covering Sub-Saharan Africa (4 credits)
SCA-UA 161 Politics of Sub-Saharan Africa (4 credits)
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NYU Accra
CORE-UA 9534 Cultures & Contexts: The Black Atlantic (4 credits)
UNDSW-US 9110 Inequality (4 credits)NYU Berlin
POL-UA 9994 Topics: Analyzing EU Politics through its Migration Policy (4 credits)
SOC-UA 9943 Transnational Migration (4 credits)
SOC-UA 9133 Comparative Modern Societies (4 credits)NYU Buenos Aires
CORE-UA 9515 Cultures & Contexts: Latin America (4 credits)
JOUR-UA 9503 Journalism & Society: Leaks and Whistleblowers (4 credits)
POL-UA 9780 Interamerica Relations: Latin America & The US (4 credits)
SPAN-UA 9400 Advanced Topics in Latin American Literature and Culture Terrorismo y Cultura (4 credits)NYU Florence
HIST-UA 9186 Environmental History of Migration in Europe and the Americas (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9283 Hist of the Jews in 20th Cent Europe: Comparative Perspectives-Italy, Germany/France (4 credits)
LWSOC-UA 9251 Topics in Law & Society: International Perspectives on Human Rights (4 credits)
MCC-UE 9452 Global Media Seminar: Media Activism and Democracy (4 credits)
POL-UA 9512 Italian Politics (4 credits)
POL-UA 9721 United States & European Relations since WWII (4 credits)
SCA-UA 9180 Topics in Africana Studies: Race and Racialization in Italy (4 credits)
SOC-UA 9506 The Politics of Organized Crime (4 credits)NYU London
CORE-UA 9400 Texts and Ideas: Power, Political Leadership and the Renaissance (4 credits)
CORE-UA 9534 Cultures & Contexts: The Black Atlantic (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9452 Immigration (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9012 Modern Europe (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9156 Europe Since 1945 (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9198 Modern Imperialism: 19th & 20th Centuries (4 credits)
MCC-UE 9403 Postcolonial Visual Culture (4 credits)NYU Madrid
ANTH-UA 9252 Contemporary Perspectives on the Civil War and the 'Recovery of Historical Memory' in Spain (4 credits)
ARTH-UA 9417 Art and Social Movements in Spain: 1888 - 1939 (4 credits)
POL-UA 9167 Spain and the European Union: Political and Economic Issues (4 credits)
POL-UA 9726 Political Economy of Developing Countries (4 credits)
SOC-UA 9709 Comparative US and European Human Rights (4 credits)
SPAN-UA 9466 Islam and Spain (4 credits)
SPAN-UA 9475 Migration and Cultural Diversity in Spain: Anthropological Approaches (4 credits)
SPAN-UA 9260 Cultural History of Spain (4 credits)NYU Paris
CORE-UA 9400 Texts and Ideas Topics: On Liberation (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9141 Topics in French History Modern France from the Revolution to the Present (4 credits)
FREN-UA 9163 French Civilization in the Making: From the Gauls to the Revolution (4 credits)
FREN-UA 9806 France and Islam (4 credits)
FREN-UA 9809 Movements in France (4 credits)
FREN-UA 9902 German Occupation in French Literature and Cinema (4 credits)
FREN-UA 9936 Gender and Sexuality in France (4 credits)
SCA-UA 9914 French/African Relations (4 credits)NYU Prague
ANTH-UA 9200 From "Gypsies" to "Roma": Ethnic Politics in a Global Prague (4 credits)
EURO-UA 9157 European Security After The Cold War (4 credits)
EURO-UA 9301 Modern Dissent in Central Europe (4 credits)
HIST-UA 9176 Hist of Nationalism in Cent & Eastern Europe (4 credits)
POL-UA 9515 Germany and East Central Europe (4 credits)
POL-UA 9598 European-American in The 21St Century (4 credits)
POL-UA 9994 Topics: Central Europe, NATO & the EU (4 credits)
SOC-UA 9413 Law & Human Rights in Central Europe (4 credits)
SOC-UA 9970 Topics: Collective Identity in a Totalitarian Regime (4 credits)NYU Tel Aviv
HIST-UA 9553 Tpcs in Mideast History: Palestinian-Israeli Conflict (4 credits)
POL-UA 9720 Diplomacy & Negotiation Conflict & Resolution in the Middle East (4 credits)
POL-UA 9994 Topics: Comparative Radical Politics (4 credits)
POL-UA 9994 Topics: Democracy, Dictatorship and Regime Change (4 credits)NYU Washington DC
HIST-UA 9629 Topics: American Foreign Policy in the 20th Century (4 credits)
POL-UA 9540 Politics of Near & Middle East (4 credits)
SCA-UA 9186 Black Lives Writing Washington, DC. (4 credits)