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Course
Description
The
following core courses, totaling 36 semester credit hours, are
required for graduation in the Master of Science in Conflict
Management:
CM
7200. Foundations and Theories of Conflict Management
7-0-7
Prerequisite: Admission to MSCM graduate program or permission
of program director.
This
course is designed to introduce students to the foundation
and theories of conflict management. The course includes an
interdisciplinary introduction to conflict, sources of conflict,
and conflict theory. The course introduces students to various
responses to conflict, the ADR continuum, and negotiation
theory.
CM
7205. Basic Mediation Skills
2-0-2
Prerequisite: Admission to MSCM graduate program or permission
of program director.
This
course is designed to provide students with basic mediation
training approved by the Georgia Office of Dispute Resolution
for mediators handling court-referred or court-ordered cases.
CM
7300. Critical Knowledge and Skills of Conflict Management
7-0-7
Prerequisite: CM 7200.
This
course is designed to introduce students to critical knowledge
and skills of conflict management. The course will integrate
an introduction to interpersonal and intergroup conflict with
an understanding of organizational, community, international,
and intercultural conflict. Students will gain critical skills
in multi-party and public policy facilitation and mediation,
as well as skill in co-mediation.
CM
7305. Advanced Conflict Management Skills
2-0-2
Prerequisites: CM 7200; CM 7205.
This
course is designed to provide students with advanced conflict
management skills, including an introduction to diversity
awareness, ombudsing, co-mediation, facilitation, multi-party
mediation, and train-the-trainer.
CM
7400. Conflict Management Research Methods
3-0-3
Prerequisites: CM 7200; CM 7300.
This
course is designed to introduce students to the basic research
methods used in the study of conflict. There is a particular
emphasis upon methods to assess conflict and evaluation interventions
designed to address conflict in a given environment.
CM
7500. Conflict Management Systems Design
3-0-3
Prerequisites: CM 7200; CM 7300; CM 7400.
This
course will prepare students to design a system to address
conflict in the environment of an organization.
CM
7600. Study of a Specific Conflict Management Environment
3-0-3
Prerequisites: CM 7200; CM 7300; CM 7400; CM 7500.
In
this course the student chooses a specific environment for
application of the knowledge and skills acquired through the
academic and clinical components of the program. The study
of a specific conflict environment provides the context for
the student's fieldwork in the final semester of the MSCM
program.
CM
7700. The Practice of Conflict Management
7-0-7
Prerequisites: 27 hours in graduate CM courses and approval
of the program director.
This
course includes field study in a specific conflict environment
chosen by the student with the guidance of the faculty. The
student will analyze conflict in the chosen environment and,
where appropriate, will make policy recommendations or design
and plan implementation of intervention processes to address
the conflict. The student will prepare an extensive written
report of this analysis, accompanied by an annotated bibliography
CM
7705. Family Mediation Skills Training or CM 7705. Evaluating Conflict Resolution
2-0-2
Prerequisite: CM 7205.
A
forty-hour training clinic focusing on the content and skills
specific to divorce and custody mediation and problems of
the family.
CM 8900. Special Topics (Repeatable)
1-3 Prerequisites: Admission to graduate study and permission of MSCM Director.
Exploration of a specified topic in Conflict Management.
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