The Faith, Peace and Justice minor offers students the opportunity to explore, in an interdisciplinary manner, how their own serious questions about faith, peace, and justice are related to concrete work for peace and justice in our world. The goals of the FPJ Program are to help undergraduate students acquire and develop skills in:

1. empirical, social scientific analysis of concrete issues for justice and peace;
2. gaining a solid grasp of the ethical and justice principles which arise from these issues;
3. learning how to formulate public policy or to initiate social change that would help to solve these problems; and
4. implementing creative methods for conflict resolution, appropriate for the level of problem solving their particular issues require.

To achieve these goals, each student is required to take the introductory course for the minor, UN 160 – The Challenge of Justice, and, in their Senior year, UN 590 – FPJ Senior Seminar. In addition, the students design, with the advice and approval of the FPJ Director, their own cluster of four elective courses that aims at an interdisciplinary course of study focused on a theme or concern for justice and peace that they themselves have identified. This four-course elective cluster is the foundation for the student's written thesis in the Senior Seminar.

For further information, or to register for the FPJ minor, see the Director, Professor Matthew Mullane, Maloney Hall, 21 Campanella Way, Room 362; 617-552-3886 or email matthew.mullane@bc.edu.