College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences Graduate Catalog

166 CARM 6601 - International Conflict Resolution This course reviews international conflict resolution in many settings and includes informal mediation by private interveners and scholar practitioners; formal mediation by individual, regional, transnational, and international organizations; and mediation within small and large states. Offered occasionally. CARM 6602 - Resolving Environmental and Public Disputes This course focuses on the theoretical bases, practical applications, process orientations, and actual intervention into complex multiparty, multi-issue public disputes. Focus is on social/environmental interactions and sources of political and economic conflict over human health environmental protection and natural resource scarcity. Offered occasionally. CARM 6604 - Gender and Conflict This course examines gender roles in conflict and how conflict is experienced and perceived by men and women. Course material includes feminist theories, men's studies, religion, literature, history, anthropology, film, television, psychology, the justice system, and alternative dispute resolution. Offered occasionally. CARM 6605 - Institutional Assessment in Conflict Resolution Practice This course will introduce students to the field of institutional assessment and planning, emphasizing the higher education environment and its unique challenges. Students will explore the functions of educational institutions across systems, develop an understanding of the concepts of institutional assessment and administrative issues in higher education, learn to use core technologies and methodologies for research applications, and build experience navigating the political and interpersonal dynamics that promote effective institutional assessment. Offered occasionally. CARM 6606 – Advanced Mediation Skills This course will oblige students to examine conventional wisdom and the students’ own beliefs to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the potentials and limits of mediation in a wide variety of contexts. The course will cover selected mediation issues and skills in more depth than possible in an introductory survey of mediation. Students will analyze issues such as convening mediations, eliciting and satisfying interests, maintaining impartiality, dealing with power imbalances, handling apparent impasses, identifying and handling various ethical problems, and writing agreements. Students will also discuss practical aspects of operating a practice such as getting clients, billing, developing good relationships with other professionals, and creating standard forms. Prerequisites: CARM 5100. Offered occasionally. CARM 6607 – Ethno-political and Community-Based Conflicts This course introduces the major methods used by states, international organizations, and conflict resolution practitioners to eliminate, manage, and resolve ethnic and community-based conflicts. Case studies are used to explain conflict escalation and de-escalation, and mechanisms of conflict intervention. Offered yearly. CARM 6608 - Nonviolent Social Movements This course focuses on 20th-century nonviolent social movements such as the women's rights and suffragist movement; Gandhi's prolonged struggle against British colonialism; Martin Luther King, Jr., and the American Civil Rights movement; the American peace movement against the war in Vietnam; and the nonviolent movements that resulted in the end of communist rule in Eastern Europe. Offered occasionally. CARM 6610 –Family Violence: The Effects on Families, Communities and Workplaces This course explores the overall effects of trauma and violence on individuals, families, communities, and the workplace. Issues of abuse, violence, and systemic responses are explored in relation to their effect on individual behavior, family dynamics, service provision, and community systems. Methods for identifying such issues in the context of family mediation and other types of conflict intervention are explored. Offered occasionally. CARM 6611 – Race and Ethnic Relations in America This course examines the social constructionist approach toward the study of racial and ethnic conflict and conflict analysis in the U.S. It is designed to assist students in increasing their ability to analyze racial issues from a historical and contemporary perspective, and to explore the basic theoretical paradigms that have been used to conceptualize the idea of race and ethnicity from the 19 th century to the present. The course will also explore the effects of contemporary policies in addressing racial and ethnic inequities, and strategies to combat racism. Offered occasionally. CARM 6613 Arbitration The purpose of this course is to help understand the theory and processes of arbitration for a wide variety of cases. The course will cover the nature, enforceability and scope of arbitration clauses; other requirements to arbitrate; the powers of arbitrators; issues that typically arise in arbitration; the conduct of arbitration hearings; the remedies available in awards under federal and state law; and proceedings to confirm or to modify or vacate arbitration awards. CARM 6614 - Workshop Development This course helps students to create a connection between the graduate program and professional life by learning how to create, develop, and present