COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES. (CM5081)

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This course acquaints students with theory and research on collaboration, with particular emphasis on the relationship between collaboration and communication in situations of cultural and ethnic conflict. It begins with a focus on what sorts of problems and conflicts are best suited to collaborative interventions, and then sets out the essential features of a high-quality collaborative process and the various communicative acts that are essential to creating and maintaining such a process, which students practice in a simulation of a variety of cross cultural contexts.

Code: 
CM5081
Name: 
COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES.
Discipline: 
CM (Communications)
Type: 
Regular
Level: 
Graduate
Credits: 
4
Can be taken twice for credit?: 
No
Pre-requisites: 
College Level=Graduate OR College Level=Graduate - Continuing OR College Level=New Student - Grad
Co-requisites: 
None
Equivalencies: 
COLLABORATIVE METH. IN CONFLICT RES. (PO5081)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Understanding of conflict resolution as a field of practice
  2. Knowledge of the role of communication processes in both escalating conflict & facilitating more peaceful contexts
  3. Ability to use communication and cross-cultural skills necessary to be an effective practitioner
  4. Practice the core conflict resolution processes of mediation, facilitation and dialogue
  5. Understanding key ethical and practical challenges in the field
  6. Developing one’s ability to be a reflective practitioner
  7. Strategies to pursue professional opportunities

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