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CARD 6140 - Facilitation Theory and Practice
This course develops students' skills in working with groups. It incorporates theories and
models of group dynamics, facilitation, and group development, as well as workshop
development and delivery. This course uses a practice-based approach, including role-
plays and workshop presentations. Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered fall and
winter (online) and summer (on-campus).
CARD 6160 - Practicum II: Supervised Field Experience
Continuation of CARD 6130 Practicum I: Supervised Field Experience. Prerequisite: CARD
6130. Offered fall and winter.
CARD 6170 - Violence Prevention
This course examines various theories of human aggression and violence, exploring their
underlying assumptions about human nature and the causes of violence. Also included is
an introduction to a range of violence intervention and prevention approaches developed
for use at the interpersonal, intergroup, and societal level. Offered summer and fall.
CARD 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.
CARD 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.
CARD 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.
CARD 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.
CARD 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,