UAS Courses & Subjects
This list can be used to select your UAS electives. This page provides information about individual courses. To learn more about specific University Arts & Sciences programs -- admission requirements, program requirements and course requirements -- please visit General University Studies.
Courses should always be chosen in consultation with a Selkirk College counsellor. Connect with advising here...
| Humanities | Social Sciences | Sciences | Applied Sciences |
|---|---|---|---|
|
|
|
Not quite there yet? Looking to upgrade your skills? Want to get into that awesome first-year course or program? Improve subject understanding, study skills and complete prerequisite courses such as biology, chemistry, English, math and physics in Academic Upgrading. All high school levels are available.
Course Descriptions
PEAC 100: Peace Studies I is an interdisciplinary and values-based course that is the first of two introductory core courses in Peace Studies. Readings will include United Nations documents, as well as essays and excerpts from the writings of philosophers, anthropologists, psychologists, and peace researchers. Students will thus gain familiarity with literature addressing a broad range of past and current theories and discourse related to peace and conflict. Through their own reflection and working collaboratively in groups, students will have the opportunity to move from theory to practice in one of the most challenging issues of humanity’s collective experience: building cultures of peace.
Prerequisites: English 12 with a grade of "C" or better.PEAC 101: Peace Studies II is the second of two introductory core courses in Peace Studies at Selkirk College. This course will focus on traditional and non-traditional approaches to Conflict Resolution transformation. Students will be introduced to conflict theory and conflict analysis, as well as conflict transformation strategies ranging from general principles and key concepts in arbitration, negotiation non-violent action, mediation, reconciliation and forgiveness, and alternative dispute resolution including, non-violent communication, peacemaking circles, conflict transformation, and conflict free conflict resolution. Students will practice identifying, analyzing, role playing, mapping, and peacefully resolving or transforming conflicts that range from the
interpersonal to the international.
PEAC 201: From Water to Chocolate: Environment, Conflict and Justice is an examination of selected global political-ecological issues, including conflict minerals, child slavery, climate change, and water wars; as well as the power and potential of various pathways to peace, including nonviolent direct action, Indigenous solidarity, fair trade, international accompaniment, ecological restoration, and environmental peacebuilding.
Prerequisites: Second year standing. PEAC 100 is recommended.PEAC 202: Leadership for Peace: The Individual and Social Transformation begins with the understanding that leadership for peace is, at its foundations, leadership for human rights and social justice; and with the further insight that social transformation is always joined with inner transformation, to the individual who "can change the world". PEAC 202 examines leadership and peace in relation to issues of authority, power, legitimacy, and the will to truth, reconciliation, compassion, and healing. A significant part of this course is a service-learning assignment, to be determined by the student in conjunction with faculty.
Prerequisites: English 12 or equivalent with a grade of "C" or better. Successful completion of or concurrent study in PEAC 100/101 strongly recommended.PEAC 203: Introduction to Restorative Justice: Theory and Practice explores the theory and practice of restorative justice. Themes include retribution, punishment and deterrence; Indigenous approaches to justice; trauma and healing; shame and empathy; community, belonging, forgiveness, and reconciliation. These are explored at a variety of scales, from the interpersonal to the global, and in various contexts – from the Canadian criminal justice system to transitional justice following war, apartheid, or colonial subjugation. Students will gain familiarity with the applied practices of victim-offender mediation, family-group conferencing, peacemaking circles, and truth and reconciliation commissions; and also learn how restorative practices are being used in environmental contexts and in our schools.
Prerequisites: English 12 or equivalent with a grade of "C" or better. PEAC 100 and 101 are recommended but not required.PEAC 205: Global Perspectives in Peace provides an opportunity for students to learn about peace, justice and related topics from a practical, local to global, and/or cross-cultural perspective through self-initiated travel abroad or self-initiated contact with a peace related NGO. For example, as part of this course, students may participate in one of two international peace institutes (Mindanao Peace Building Institute in the Philippines and African Peace Building Institute in Zambia) with which Selkirk College has a partnership. Alternatively, students may design their own independent international peace and justice learning experience, with support, as needed, from the instructor.
Prerequisites: PEAC 100 or PEAC 101. PEAC 201 recommended.PEAC 301: Directed Studies in Restorative Justice is an independent reading course. It allows the student to connect the principles and values of restorative justice to a particular area of interest of the student’s own choosing. The goal is to understand how an approach based on dialogue, relationship-building, healing, and social transformation can be applied to further positive social change in the student’s focus area.
The outcome of this course is that the learner will develop a project proposal for their practice course, PEAC 303: Restorative Justice Practice, to be carried out in the spring-summer term.
Prerequisites: Admission to the Restorative Justice Advanced Certificate Program, and PEAC 203.PEAC 303: Restorative Justice Practice is a sequel course to PEAC 301: Directed Studies in Restorative Justice. In this course, the student carries out the proposal developed in PEAC 301 by completing a 90-hour restorative justice practicum or project in the workplace, school or community.
Prerequisites: PEAC 203 and PEAC 301.This intensive week long course provides the student of restorative justice with practical skills in communication, mediation and conflict transformation. The format will be interactive – short lectures, discussions, case studies and role plays. The student will examine the concepts of power, culture, privilege in the context of communication, with a strong emphasis on listening skills.
Prerequisites: PEAC 203, 301 and 303.