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CM 7200: Foundations and Theories of Conflict Management
This course is designed to introduce students to the foudation and theories of conflict management. This course includes an interdisciplinary introduction to conflict, sources of conflict, and conflict theory. The course introduces students to various reponses to conflict, the ADR continuum, and negotiation theory.

 

CM 7205: Basic Mediation Training Clinic
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
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 Clinic
This course is designed to provide students with advanced conflict management skills, including an introduction to diversity awareness, ombudsing, co-mediation, faciliation, multi-party mediation, and train the trainer.

 

CM 7400: Conflict Management Research Methods
This course is designed to introduce students to 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
This course will prepare students to design a system to address conflict in an organization.

 

CM 7600: Study of a Specific Conflict Management Environment
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. As a part of this course, every student participates in a professional conference or study abroad program. The conference/study abroad experience provides networking opportunities and gives students a first-person look at conflict management in the field. Combined, these elements provide the context for the student's fieldwork in the final semester of the MSCM program.

 

CM 7700: The Practice of Conflict Management
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 implemenation of intervention processes to address the conflict. The student will prepare an extensive written report of this analysis, accompained by an annotated bibliography.

 

CM 7705: Advanced Applied Skills
This 40-hour advanced skills training course will enhance student's theoretical, research, and practice skills. Students are able to select from a variety of subjects. The selection changes each semester, but past topics have included Program Evaluation and Grant Writing, Facilitation, and Domestic Mediation. This intensive course focuses on honing the student's skill in their area of interest.

 

   

News and Events

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MSCM Open House Dates:
November 12, 2009
December 8, 2009
January 14, 2010
February 8, 2010
March 9, 2010
April 8, 2010
May 11, 2010

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