2024-2025 University Catalog
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PCON 479 - Research Seminar: Peace and Conflict, Themes and Analysis Building upon the work completed in Cluster 1 (PCON 201 and 202), as well as courses taken in Clusters 2 and 3, the primary objective is to guide students through the process of researching and constructing a senior thesis of at least 25 pages in length. Students are asked to conduct original empirical research, engage with scholarly literatures relevant to their topic and broader debates within the interdisciplinary field, and finally develop and deploy a theoretically informed methodological framework of analysis. Seminar readings, assignments, and discussions are organized around understanding scholarly practices and debates through different disciplinary perspectives, theoretical positions, and methodological approaches. This course is required of all PCON majors in the senior year. PCON minors may take as an elective with the instructor’s permission.
Credits: 1.00 Corequisite: None Prerequisites: ( and ) or (PCON 111 and (PCON 218 or ANTH 218) and PCON 225 ) Major/Minor Restrictions: Only Peace & Conflict Studies Majors Class Restriction: Only Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None
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