Overview
Description
Considers feasibility and worth of using nonviolent methods for achieving peace at home and abroad. Contrasts nonviolence and violence according to means and ends.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall
Terms
fall
Core
CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- articulate the positive and negative results that follow from one’s choice to rely on violence or nonviolence.
- analyze and explain the means/ends model for differentiating violence from nonviolence and be able to articulate the benefits and limitations of this.
- explain how war can be perceived as being morally superior to nonviolence. Be able to articulate what changes to our perception of nonviolence would have to happen to make it morally equivalent to war.
- articulate the history and lineage of nonviolence in written exercises and through the examination of case studies.
- identify and analyze the four-level Spectrum of Means for Experiencing Peace (SMEP) model.
- identify and analyze those factors that contribute to perceived personal and societal efficacy in attempting to resolve major societal conflicts and confrontations.
- synthesize and integrate the conditions for ethical decision-making with respect to a history of conflict and peace resolutions.