AQ-50184-10 | Education Programs: Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants | Kean University | NEH Enduring Questions Course on "Is There Such a Thing as a Just War?" | 7/1/2010 - 7/31/2012 | $25,000.00 | Christopher | M. | Bellitto | | | | Kean University | Union | NJ | 07083-7133 | USA | 2010 | History, General | Enduring Questions: Pilot Course Grants | Education Programs | 25000 | 0 | 25000 | 0 | The development of an undergraduate course that examines arguments in the Bhagavad Gita, Augustine, Aquinas, von Clausewitz, and the Geneva Conventions.
A new interdisciplinary course will be developed around the question, "Is there such a thing as a just war?" Students will read classical but conflicting theories, critique past events, and apply historical context to today's challenges. |