Peace and Conflict Studies (PACS) approved courses, are offered by partner disciplines and programs in the Faculty of Arts and Faculty of Environment. Many of the 300- and 400-level courses have specific prerequisites. Students planning to pursue study in the upper-level courses should use their electives wisely to ensure that the prerequisites for these courses are met. Additions or deletions to this list may occur from time to time.
Where students find the list inadequate for their needs, students may petition (read the instructions for petition (PDF)) by emailing to PACS administration to have specific courses accepted as PACS approved courses. This should ideally happen before registration in the course in question is finalized. Normally only up to two courses may be petitioned per student per academic career.
The official list of PACS approved courses is updated annually in the University of Waterloo Undergraduate Studies Academic Calendar according to each academic plan. Here is a list for your convenience.
ERS 215 - Environmental and Sustainability Assessment 1
ERS 253 - The Politics of Sustainable Communities
ERS 294 - The Sacred Earth: Religion and Ecology
ERS 404 - Global Environmental Governance
ENVS 201 - Introduction to Environmental and Planning Law
ENVS 401 - Environmental Law
GEOG 202 - Geography of the Global Economy
GEOG 203 - Environment and Development in a Global Perspective
GEOG 208 - Human Dimensions of Global Climate Change
GEOG 212 - Japan and the Pacific Rim
GEOG 215 - China: Diverse and Dynamic
GEOG 426 - Geographies of Development
HIST 102 - War and Society in Europe, 1914-1945
HIST 106 - Canada and War in the Twentieth Century
HIST 120 - The United States at War, 1861-1945
HIST 130 - The Modern World in Historical Perspective
HIST 210 - History of Ancient Law
HIST 215 - Canadian Women in Historical Perspective
HIST 220 - The Vietnam War and American Society
HIST 221 - Race Relations in Canada: An Historical Perspective
HIST 223 - The Holocaust in History
HIST 230 - Introduction to the Modern Middle East
HIST 232/PACS 203 - A History of Peace Movements
HIST 236 - Law and Society in the Middle Ages
HIST 239 - History of Modern China, 1911 to the Present
HIST 254 - Canadian History: The National Period
HIST 262 - Early Modern Europe 1450-1700
HIST 263 - Europe in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
HIST 264 - Western Europe Since 1945
HIST 265 - Eastern Europe Since 1945
HIST 309 - The Discourse of Dissent
HIST 314 - The American Civil Rights Movement
HIST 348 - The Radical Reformation
HIST 358 - Nazi Germany
PHIL 216 - Probability and Decision-Making
PHIL 327 - Philosophy of Law
PHIL 228 - Human Rights
PHIL 329/PACS 316 - Violence, Non-violence and War
PHIL 422 - Studies in Political Philosophy
PSCI 110 - Introduction to Politics in the Contemporary World
PSCI 225 - Classics in Political Thought 1
PSCI 226 - Classics in Political Thought 2
PSCI 250 - The Comparative Politics of State and Nation
PSCI 252 - Global South: Introduction to International Development
PSCI 257 - Introduction to the Modern Middle East
PSCI 281 - World Politics
PSCI 282 - Foreign Policy
PSCI 321 - Marxist Theory
PSCI 350 - Political Economy of Development
PSCI 351 - Power Sharing in Divided Societies
PSCI 382 - Politics of Canadian Foreign Policy
PSCI 387 - Globalization
PSCI 389 - Global Governance
PSCI 429 - Genetics and Justice
PSCI 432 - Global Environmental Governance
PSCI 454 - Topics in Politics in Global South
PSCI 456 - Ethnic Conflict and Conflict Resolution
PSCI 481 - Interstate War
PSYCH 220R/253 - Social Psychology
PSYCH 222R - Cross-Cultural Psychology
PSYCH 232 - Psychology of Evil
PSYCH 235 - Psychological Perspectives on Gender and Sex
PSYCH 253/220R - Social Psychology
PSYCH 338 - Organizational Psychology
PSYCH 350 - Political Psychology
PSYCH 352 - Culture and Psychology
PSYCH 353 - Social Cognition
PSYCH 354/354R - Interpersonal Relations
PSYCH 439 - Negotiation in the Workplace: Theories and Practice
RS 121 - Evil
RS 220 - World Religions and Politics
RS 237 - Inclusion and Exclusion in the Bible
RS 252 - Religious Responses to Political Oppression
RS 253 - Women and the Church
RS 256/PACS 320 - Christian Approaches to Peacemaking
RS 280 - Cults and New Religious Movements
RS 281 - Millennialism and Violence
RS 285 - The Sacred Earth: Religion and Ecology
RS 322 - Interreligious Encounter and Dialogue
RS 323 - Religious Ethics and Global Politics
RS 337 - The Bible and Peace
RS 344 - Radical Reformation
RS 353 - War and Peace in Christian Theology
RS 355 - Christian Feminist Thought
RS 380/PACS 326 - Religion and Peace-Building
RS 383 - Justice, Peace and Development
SDS 370R - International Learning Experience
SOCWK 301R - Understanding Diversity in Canada
SOCWK 322R - International Perspectives in Community Organization
SOCWK 355R - Child Maltreatment: Identification and Prevention
SOCWK 357R - Family Violence
SOCWK 390A/B - Family Violence: An Advanced Seminar
SOC 102 - Social Problems
SOC 201 - Victims and Society
SOC 206 - Gender Relations
SOC 222 - Juvenile Delinquency
SOC 224R - Poverty in Canada and its Social Consequences
SOC 226 - Juvenile Justice
SOC 227 - Criminology
SOC 228 - Sociology of Criminal Justice
SOC 229 - Selected Topics in Criminology
SOC 241 - Introduction to the Sociology of Work
SOC 256 - Ethnic and Racial Relations
SOC 258 - Millennialism and Violence
SOC 262 - Cults and New Religious Movements
SOC 325 - Sexuality and the Law
SOC 327 - Policing in a Democratic Society
SOC 370 - Sociology of Law
SOC 372 - Good and Evil in Social Relations
SOC 378 - Sociology of Women
SOC 428 - Sentencing as a Social Process
The courses below, offered by non-participating departments, may be counted as content courses.
CLAS 210 - History of Ancient Law
DRAMA 397 - Women and Film
ENGL 216 - Canadian Multicultural Literature
ENGL 309G - The Discourse of Dissent
FINE 378 - Women and Film
GER 383 - Culture in the Third Reich: Racism, Resistance, Legacy
MUSIC 334 - Women, Music and Gender
SMF 205 - The Dark Side of Sexuality
SMF 307 - Conflict, Crisis, and Dissolution in Close Relationships
SPCOM 432 - Conflict Management
SPCOM 430 - Communication and Social Justice
SPCOM 434 - The Discourse of Dissent
WS 209 - Gender Relations
WS 331/PACS 321 - Gender in War and Peace
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