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CARD 6618 - The Reflective Practitioner: Consulting, Conflict, and Change in
Organizational Settings
A hands on, clinically based course in which students will form consulting teams (like in
consulting firms) and actually do consulting in the community. Offered occasionally.
CARD 6619 - Strategic Community Planning and Partnerships
An overview of the community from a strategic perspective, identifying: social, economic,
demographic and cultural trends and patterns within the community; areas of concern for
law enforcement and government; ways to initiate and develop community-wide
strategic planning for peaceful community relations and growth; building community
partnerships between law enforcement, the criminal justice system and community
agencies and groups; community justice; and the use of data, data collection and
analysis in developing and implementing collaborative long and short term plans for
community development, problem solving and funding initiatives. Offered occasionally.
SHSS 6620 - Academic Writing
A user-friendly seminar on how to write clear, unpretentious academic prose. Covers
technical issues–sentence structure, punctuation, tenses, idea development–in a non-
technical manner. Includes strategies for creating and editing manuscripts and for
researching, organizing, and writing literature reviews. Offered all terms.
CARD 6621 – Introduction to Human Rights
This course provides students with an introductory survey of political, philosophical,
historical, economic, and legal considerations related to fundamental human rights
concepts. Students will examine human rights issues in both domestic and international
arenas. In particular, the course addresses the issues of the ideological and cultural
origins of human rights theory; the sources of rights and rights violations; the impact of
the nation-state system, governments and other institutions (such as corporations,
churches and universities), and domestic and foreign policies particularly of the U.S.) on
human rights law and enforcement. Finally, students examine the wide variety of
political, civil, economic, social and cultural rights warranting protection. Offered Yearly.
CARD 6623 - Practicum III
This course is a more advanced field research project that incorporates classroom
knowledge and real-world settings. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply
theory to practice and analyze situations utilizing knowledge from previous course work.
Program approval required.
Department approval required
. Offered occasionally.
CARD 6624 - Advanced Practicum
This practicum experience is a faculty-driven experience in which a faculty member will
design a project in conjunction with another organization or university and students
selected for the practicum will work on that project with the faculty member. The project
may also entail a one to two week mandatory field experience in which students and the
faculty member will work on the project on location. Students will be responsible for their
expenses. Students will apply for this practicum and must be selected. Offered
occasionally.
CARD 6626 - Conflict Resolution for the School and School System
This course is designed for anyone in a position to influence school policy, practice, and
decision-making, from within or as a consultant. The course takes a systems approach
to resolving conflicts within the school and school system, applying conflict analysis and
conflict resolution models to conflict situations, using negotiation, mediation, and
facilitation processes, developing a conflict resolution culture throughout the system,
