Peace Education Certificate
The Peace Education Certificate provides teachers and other social service providers with a comprehensive interdisciplinary mastery of the Peace Education knowledge base. This certificate is sufficient to provide individuals with the skills necessary to resolve ongoing conflicts, to create cooperative environments, and prevent violence.
Apply for admission to the Peace Education Certificate Program.
The following courses are required to receive this certificate:
Peace Education and Popular Culture (18-EDST-683)
The objective of this course is to empower teachers as peacemakers by enabling them to master strategies & tactics to transform popular culture into a vehicle for the dissemination of values of peace & social justice.
Introduction to Peace Education (18-EDST-690)
As we enter the new millennium, the specter of violence is upon us, from the World Trade Center to the campus of Columbine, from bullying in the corridors of our schools to domestic violence at home. This course will provide you with an opportunity to survey the interdisciplinary knowledge base developed by scholars and activists committed to reorienting the human race to the non-violent resolution of conflict. (1) You will engage in written & oral discourse on the topics, research & related controversies & debates associated with Peace Studies. (2) If you are a teacher you will be able to infuse Peace Studies into your curriculum, & classroom management. If you are an administrator you will be able to incorporate Peace Studies in your educational policies. (3) You will have an opportunity to incorporate Peace Studies into your research agenda, for example, Masters Projects or Theses, dissertations, conference presentations, Spring Research Conference, & journal articles.
Mediation (18-EDST-691)
The course will provide an understanding of the theoretical grounding of mediation, a survey of current research, and a mastery of the steps required for implementing successful mediation.
Multicultural Education (18-CI-705)
This course focuses on major theoretical and historical perspectives to examine the nature, role, and implications of diversity in school settings and classrooms. This course further explores issues, approaches, and implications for classroom teachers.
Students in this course will:
• Acquire an understanding of the theoretical background related to multicultural education and their applicability to practice.
• Acquire an understanding of a body of knowledge related to multicultural education and the supporting research evidence, including its strengths and limitations.
• Develop the ability to articulate relationships between teacher behavior and student learning and the supporting research evidence.
• Acquire an understanding of how knowledge from multicultural education research can be applied to improve instruction, student motivation, and student learning.
• Develop an understanding of how their own prejudices have an effect on learning.
• Analyze their own teaching behavior using principles and concepts drawn from multicultural education research.
Conflict Resolution (18-EDST-682)
Creating Positive School Climates (online) (18-EDST-625p)
This course is a strategy-based course that will provide teachers with tools they can use to build an environment of respect, responsibility, and resilience. Mediation, problem-solving, and conflict resolution methods will be highlights.
Impact of School Violence on Children and Communities (online) (18-EDST-626p)
Based on the work of Deborah Prothrow-Stith, this course provides an in-depth analysis of the violence experienced by adolescents including a focus on urban areas. A preventative approach includes the acquisition of strategies and tactics aimed at extinguishing violence before it occurs.
Please see our full list of UCSJPER courses here for an exhaustive list of potential electives.
Please contact the UCSJPER Director Dr. Marvin Berlowitz with further questions at (513) 556-3564 or (513) 556-3608, or via email at urban.peace@uc.edu.