Overview

The Peace & Justice Studies program delivered at Wellesley College looks at past and present efforts to reduce violence, end conflict, build peace, and achieve justice. The major involves coursework, research, and co-curricular activities.

Key Facts

The program’s areas of focus include human rights, grassroots organizing, environmental justice, international and intranational conflict and peacemaking, and inequities of race, class, and gender.

Learning goals

Apply general theories of conflict and conflict transformation to specific cases, regions, and issues.

Practice theories of social justice, peace, and conflict transformation in the outside world, through internships, externships, field study, and the cultivation of intelligent compassion and a sense of justice.

Make ethical decisions based upon critical thinking, empathy, and responsibility.

Programme Structure

Courses include:

Study of Conflict, Justice, and Peace

Conflict Transformation in Theory and Practice
Topics in Peace and Justice Studies
Senior Seminar in Peace and Justice Studies
Research or Individual Study

Games of Strategy
The Political Economy of Gender, Race, and Class
From Conquest to Revolution: A History of Colonial Latin America
South Africa in Historical Perspective
Gender, War and Peacebuilding
Global Justice
Seminar: Political Organizing: People, Power, and Change
Political Economy of Development and Underdevelopment
Contemplation and Action
Sociology of Human Rights
Social Inequality: Class, Race, and Gender

Globalization: Around the World in Fourteen Weeks

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 48 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-08 00:00:00

Language

English

Credits

120 SCH

Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Wellesley, United States

Disciplines

Public Law Public Policy Political Science View 149 other Bachelors in Public Law in United States

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

To apply to Wellesley all first-year applicants must submit the following:

Common Application for Wellesley College (including the Wellesley-specific writing supplement)
Official high school transcript
Letter of recommendation from secondary school counselor or other school official
Two letters of recommendation from secondary school teachers who taught, or are teaching, the applicant in an academic subject

Standardized test scores:

Option A- SAT Reasoning Test plus two SAT Subject Tests
Option B- ACT with Writing

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

69800 UZS / year

≈ 69800 UZS / year
Out-of-State

69800 UZS / year

≈ 69800 UZS / year
Domestic

Applies to you

In-State

69800 UZS / year

≈ 69800 UZS / year

Living costs

Wellesley

United States

2644 - 5475 USD / month

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

Funding

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