College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Catalog 2016

160 sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political sciences, and social relations. Offered winter. CARM 5040 – Communication Dynamics in Dispute Resolution: The Human Factor This course presents communication theories relevant to conflict resolution as well as theories about understanding, analyzing, and managing conflict. The course focuses on the human and emotional aspects of conflict, and includes the influence of gender and culture. This course is pragmatic as well as theoretical, and presents communication and conflict resolution models in a practice-based approach. Offered all terms. CARM 5100 - Mediation Theory and Practice This course examines theories, methods, and techniques of mediation. Students will have the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of mediation skills. Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered fall and winter. CARM 5140 - Negotiation Theory and Practice This course examines conflict intervention from the perspective of the disputant/negotiator. The integration of theory and practice will emphasize the tactics, strategies, and operations of effective and ineffective bargaining/negotiating behavior. The course develops negotiator skills and knowledge, leading to collaborative-based actions and solutions. Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered winter. CARM 5200 - Research Design and Program Evaluation This course focuses on the development of applied research skills appropriate for dispute resolution practitioners, including basic research tools, assessment, social science research, current research in the field, and an introduction to program evaluation through analysis of published work. Offered winter and summer. CARM 5401 Editing I This course engages students in the principles and practices that create and sustain hard copy and online journals. These may vary from a fully-academic focus to literary materials, but all will create and deliver content that promotes contributions to their fields. Coursework will encompass all the steps that connect a publication with its intended audience. Coursework will vary depending on the current stage of a journal’s development, including duties that enact the realistic responsibilities and opportunities that anyone can expect while serving on, or leading, a journal in a professional position. This course is useful for students who intend to pursue a professional role in journal editing and those who intend to contribute to respected journals or other regular publications with a high quality standard. CARM 6000 – Organizational Conflict: Theory and Practice This course examines organizations, the causes and manifestations of organizational conflict, and interventions including: organizational theories, organizational development, systems theories, group dynamics, and dispute systems design. Students will learn to apply theory to the assessment of conflict and the design of appropriate intervention models within organizations, and will be introduced to consultation models. Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered summer. CARM 6120 - Culture and Conflict: Cross- cultural Perspectives This course examines the nature and meaning of conflict, conflict management techniques, and the assessment of conflict situations from a cross-cultural perspective. Explores various models for training third parties to function effectively in handling disputes where cultural differences are a significant factor. Also addresses various theoretical and practical implications of indigenous conflict management techniques and beliefs found in different cultural settings. Offered fall. CARM 6130 - Practicum I: Supervised Field Experience This course is a field research project that incorporates classroom knowledge and real-world settings. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply theory to practice and analyze situations utilizing knowledge from previous course work. Prerequisites: CARM 5000 and CARM 5040 and CARM 5020 AND 1 of the following CARM 5100, CARM 5140, CARM 6140. Offered all terms. CARM 6140 - Facilitation Theory and Practice This course develops students' skills in working with groups. It incorporates theories and models of group dynamics, facilitation, and group development, as well as workshop development and delivery. This course uses a practice- based approach, including role-plays and workshop presentations. Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered fall and winter (online) and summer (on-campus). CARM 6150 Professional Practice & Ethics This course will examine current ethical challenges of practice in the field of conflict resolution and peace studies. Some questions to be explored will include the following: What are major ethical dilemmas facing peace and conflict resolution practitioners? Can there be and should there be universally-accepted, over-arching standards of ethical conduct and practice that guide their work? Through a combination of seminars, cases studies and discussions, students will explore challenges facing peace and conflict resolution practitioners, working at the local, national, and international levels. Students will analyze the ethical issues and dilemmas related to specific cases, research what various scholars and practitioners have written about best practices to determine what was done ‘right’ and what could have been improved. Students will also collaborate on reasoned approaches and responses to ethical issues in conflict resolution