Intercultural Peacebuilding (BA)

Program Requirements

Core Requirements — 6 Credits

Research Methods — 3 Credits

Field Work — 6 Credits

Choose Two

Intercultural Peacebuilding Electives — 15 Credits

Choose five
Students can take up to three IPB 390R courses to fulfill requirements, provided they are on different topics. Electives not being used toward the Field Work requirement can be used as IPB electives.

Intercultural Peacebuilding Culture and Conflict Electives — 9 Credits

Choose three

Additional Program Requirements

No grades lower than C- will be accepted. A student must leave the major after failing to obtain at least a C- grade for the same major course after taking it twice, and no major courses may be repeated more than once.

Program Learning Outcomes

Upon completing a major in intercultural peacebuilding, students will:

• Effectively understand cultural differences and conflicts.
• Think critically and empathetically.
• Employ skills such as mediation, facilitation and research to develop solutions to real world problems.
• Articulate and sustain views through verbal and written discourse.
• Be well prepared to enter graduate school or employment.

Program Descriptions

The Intercultural Peacebuilding Program seeks to refine and mold the divine potential of BYU–Hawaii graduates to influence peace for the good at home, in the workplace, in communities, and throughout the world. It not only emphasizes theories of harmony, cross-cultural leadership, and conflict transformation but also highlights the spiritual components of these areas such as forgiveness and reconciliation by drawing on a broad range of theories and techniques from the academic disciplines of anthropology, cultural studies, political science, psychology, history, economics, law, and business. A major in intercultural peacebuilding will provide opportunities for employment in careers in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors as an understanding of the theories of conflict and sustainable community building and development. Students will also gain knowledge and basic skills necessary to navigate the intricacies of intercultural communication and negotiation in whatever their chosen profession may be. One of the primary goals of IPB is the fulfillment of BYU–Hawaii’s prophetic mission to accept, adapt, and integrate cultural differences through the transcendent principles of love, faith, and peace combined with a rigorous academic curriculum that directly addresses cross-cultural understanding. As a microcosm of global diversity, BYU–Hawaii provides an exceptional environment for intercultural peacebuilding.