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 of this common capstone seminar is to guide students through the process of researching and constructing a senior thesis of at least 8,000 words 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 it as an elective with the instructor’s permission.

Credits: 1.00
Corequisite: None
Prerequisites:

PCON 201

and

PCON 202

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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