College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

147 CARD 6666 - Social Advocacy/Patients Clients This course examines strategies for developing advocacy toward marketing ideas, achieving buy in from others and shaping opinion. It includes strategies for developing advocacy on behalf of patients and clients in other settings as well as teaching individuals and other groups how to bets advocate for themselves. The course will draw upon research in the fields of persuasion, power relations, and public advocacy. Topics covered will include: developing messages, context of communicating messages, emotional tenor of advocacy and creating a persuasive message. Offered occasionally. CARD 6667 - Transitional Justice War and large scale violence deeply scar individuals and societies. Peace does not come with the silencing of the guns and the danger of conflict resurgence is extremely high in the immediate aftermath of hostilities. Long term resolution of conflicts requires that the damage of past conflicts be addressed so as to enable societies to progress into peaceable, just futures. Transitional Justice has grown into a new subfield of study and it addresses some deeply challenging questions arising out of violence. How can societies torn apart by war, genocide, atrocities, and dictatorships emerge into a new and brighter future? Can people and citizens deeply scarred by violence learn to forgive, forget and/or co-exist? Or does true healing require punishment, vengeance, and retribution for crimes past? In this class we balance moral, legal, and psychotherapeutic theories against the realities of historical and contemporary examples. We will examine the solutions proposed so far including the International Criminal Court, Truth Commissions, Memorializations, Reparations etc. We will look at some specific exemplars such as South Africa, Bosnia- Hercegovina, Sri Lanka, Canada, Argentina and others. Offered occasionally. CARD 6668 - Organizing Nonviolent Social Change This is a practice course that aims to provide students with the skills necessary to make nonviolent social change happen. It grows out of experiences in legislative advocacy in Washington DC and community mobilization on conflict resolution and federal appropriations allocations for HIV Aids programming. Students will explore some of the practicalities of nonviolent social action and how to participate more effectively in initiatives. Cases of nonviolent struggle, principles of strategy, and the techniques and methods of nonviolent action will be covered. Some skills covered will be: How to frame messages for mobilization, how to raise funding (including taking advantage of internet use), how to work with the media etc. Students will be assigned skill based exercises like creating posters (hard copy or electronic), writing talking points for legislative testimony etc. We will use strategies from Gene Sharp and Saul Alinsky (tutor to Hillary Clinton and President Obama). Offered occasionally. CARD 6669- Peace Education This course will introduce students to the central concepts, theories, current debates and cutting-edge practices as regards peace education. Essential questions include what peace education is, experiential learning, how do faculty design curriculum around peace education, how faculty can address nonviolence in the classroom, best practices in assisting students to understand the role of power and inequalities in conflict, and how to facilitate student (and teacher) understanding of entrenched historical conflicts. Offered occasionally. CARD 7001- Doctoral Seminar This course is designed to provide support, information, resources, coaching and feedback to doctoral students in preparation for the qualifying examination. Primarily, the course focuses on preparation for the qualifying examination and assisting students in organizing