College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Catalog 2016

228 MACS 6647 – Risk Management for Organizations This course examines risks across all types of organizations, including healthcare. The course will outline various types of risk exposures including pure, operational, project, technical, business and political. Students will learn how to develop a systemic risk management program for any organization through risk identification, qualitative impact analysis, quantitative impact analysis, risk response planning, and risk monitoring. MACS 6648 – Researching Conflict In this course, students and instructors will together conceptualize, design and carry out a mixed methods research study on a topic connected to violence. The students and instructors will decide on a research problem to be studied. The goal of the elective is to help students deepen their understanding of quantitative and qualitative research and hone research skills. The course will be a collaborative effort, building on the experience, knowledge, expertise, and interest of all of the participants. Prerequisites: MACS 5200 MACS 6650 – International Negotiation: Principles, Process and Issues This course describes and analyzes the major principles, processes and issues of international negotiation in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. It seeks to provide students with the analytical tools skills required to explain and predict the outcome of specific (bilateral or multilateral) negotiations through the study of various explanation factors, including: stability and change in the structure of the existing "international system"; the individual characteristics of the nations-states parties (power/capabilities, interests, culture/values, negotiating styles, etc.; the strategic and tactical moves of those considered as "key players"; as well as the role of smaller states and non-state actors. MACS 6651 – Theories of Ethnicity & Nationalism Theories of Ethnicity and Nationalism: This course is foundational for theoretical understandings of ethnicity and nationalism. Students will analyze general theories from key debates and critically examine various points of view in relation to defining boundaries, conflict, context, difference, identity, migration, minority/majority, race and tribalism in regard to ethnicity, as well as community, fantasy, ideology, neo-Marxism, modernism, perennialism, political, primordialism, semiotic, sociocultural, socioeconomic, imagination, invention, and tradition in association with nationalism and nationalists, and the entwinement and interrelation between all of these prevalent notions and themes. Upon completion of the course students will better grasp ethnic belonging, ethno- nationalist conflict, and intra/inter-group disputes from the standpoint of applied theory, cultural relativity, and humanism. MACS 6652 – History, Memory and Conflict By exploring the significance of history, memory, and cognition, this course provides the most recent theoretical debates on these issues and their significance for understanding why populations persist in a state of violence. Students will be introduced to the basic and major theoretical interpretations and the chronology of history of ideas. Questions to be considered include: how does the past become the present and remain in it, and, how do we as researchers interpret the relevance of history and memory? Others are: how is the past invented, mythologized about, and re-invented? Why does memory have such an important role in the persistence of intractable hostilities and how does the learning of violence become transmitted from one generation to the next? MACS 6653 – Conflict in Conservation and Development This course examines conflict in conservation and development. It covers theoretical frameworks and introduces participatory tools that will enable students to more effectively analyze and address situations of conflict in conservation and development initiatives. The course familiarizes students with concepts and methods from natural resource management, sustainable livelihood systems and collaborative learning approaches. MACS 6654 – Islam, Conflict, and Peacemaking This course will provide an historical overview of Islam, including an introduction to belief systems, the different branches of the faith and schools of Islamic law with a special emphasis on Muslim doctrines related to conflict and peace. It will include the contemporary era and investigate Muslim engagements with modernity and discuss the varied responses and perspectives. There will some discussions of international relations, but the course will also emphasize micro level issues. Students will have the opportunity to develop research projects designed to extend their understanding of Islam and its potential as a resource for peace building. MACS 6656 – Gender, Conflict and International Development This course provides the student with essential understanding of factors that shape the social, political and economic roles of women and men in developing countries. The course covers the concepts of gender in conflict resolution and peace building by examining women and men's human rights and security, and the consideration of gender within developmental policies. The course provides an overview of concepts and gender analysis frameworks from a historical perspective. Students examine specific projects aimed at integrating women into community development. MACS 6657 – Conflict Coaching Theory and Practice This course examines the growing use of conflict coaching as a conflict intervention