Preparing Citizens of the Future Stage 3: Time for Action Issue

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Preparing Citizens of the FutureStage 3 Time
for ActionIssue 3

• Group 6
•  Cristina Bacuta UDel Mathematical Sciences
• Debatosh Debnath Oakland University Computer
  Science and Engineering
  
• Doug Doren UDel Chemistry and BiochemistryKaren
  Edwards UDel Health, Nutrition, and Exercise
  Science
  
• Allan Fisher UDel Business Administration
• Tadashi Nakagawa , Mie University, Japan,
  Geography, Humanities, and Social Sciences
  

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Initial Proposal

• What New Program in Peace Studies
• Who SANE-(Student Action Now for Everyone) a
  student group
  
• Who supports the idea Individual professors in
  three departments
  
• Sociology
• Military Science
• American Studies

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Initial Proposal

• Does it need funding? Yes.
• Special features study abroad in world hotspots
  Palestine, Somalia, Iran.

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Umbrella Question

• What should be the goals of a Peace Studies
  program ?

• For students to understand sources of conflict
  and approaches to conflict management, mitigation
  and resolution
  
• To support sustainable peace through the work of
  the students we educate and the knowledge we
  produce
  
• To model education for vocations committed to
  sustainable social change

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Learning Issues

• What other programs already exist and what have
  they learned?
  
• Will the program attract students?
• What are future employment prospects for majors?
• Which college/department will oversee the
  program?
  
• Should it be structured as a major, minor or
  concentration?
  
• What kind of international experience?

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Learning Issues

• What departments should be involved?
• Do we have enough committed, qualified faculty?
• What resources will be needed?

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Learning Issues

• What other programs already exist and what have
  they learned?
  
• Notre Dame, Cornell, Berkeley, Amherst (Five
  Colleges), Bryn Mawr, etc., etc., etc.
  

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Learning Issues

• Will the program attract students?
• Need more investigation of other programs, market
  surveys of our applicants

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Learning Issues

• What are future employment prospects with this
  credential?
  
• As a major NGOs, US Government, UN
• Similar to other majors like sociology,
  political science
  
• As a minor or concentration Depends on major

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Learning Issues

• Which college/department will oversee the
  program?
  
• Home for a major or minor could be in an
  interdisciplinary center
  

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Learning Issues

• What departments should be involved?
• In addition to sociology, military science,
  american studies
  
• Economics, History, Political Science,
  Psychology, Anthropology, Philosophy, Business,
  Environmental Studies

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Learning Issues

• Should it be structured as a major, minor or
  concentration?
  
• Easiest to begin as concentration, but requires a
  fit with major department
  
• Interdisciplinary minor could serve students in
  more majors

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Peace and Sustainability Studies

• 3 Major Areas
• 1.Peace and Environment
• -Dept. Environmental Studies
• 2. Peace and Social Justice
• -Dept. Sociology
• 3. Peace and Economy
• -Dept. Economics
• Minor or Concentration

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Learning Issues

• What kind of international experience?
• Not war zones
• Could go to post-conflict areas
• South Africa, Northern Ireland, Bosnia
• Potential conflict areas
• Kashmir, Indonesia, Central African Republic

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Learning Issues

• Do we have enough committed, qualified faculty
  already?
  
• or
• Do we need to add to present faculty?
• Need to determine level of interest of faculty
  and support from administration

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Learning Issues

• What resources will be needed?
• Mostly clerical, if run with existing faculty
• May want visiting faculty and lecturers
• If successful, will need to add faculty

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Setting Priorities
Is there anything more important?