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DMFT 7360 - Teaching Practicum
Supervised teaching experience in undergraduate or graduate instruction in family
therapy or related field provides students opportunities to develop their pedagogical
understanding of teaching and enhance their teaching skills. Prerequisites: DMFT 6310
and faculty approval. Offered each term.
SHSS 6620 - Academic Writing
This writing course is a user-friendly seminar on how to write clear, unpretentious
academic prose. Technical issues are covered that include sentence structure,
punctuation, tenses, idea development and presented in a non-technical manner. The
focus includes strategies for creating and editing manuscripts and for researching,
organizing, and writing literature reviews. Offered each term.
M.S. in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
CARM 5000 -
Foundations and Development of Conflict Resolution & Peace
Studies
This course outlines the substantive themes, history, origins, contexts, and philosophical
foundations of conflict resolution, healing, peacemaking, and problem solving. Students
will examine levels of interventions and processes in the field of conflict resolution.
Offered all terms.
CARM 5020 - Theories and Philosophies of Conflict and Peace
This course is designed as a survey course on contemporary theories of conflict and
conflict resolution. Students will examine a variety of theories that center primarily on
the fields of history, economics, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, political
sciences, and social relations. Offered winter.
CARM 5040 – Communication Dynamics in Dispute Resolution: The Human
Factor
This course presents communication theories relevant to conflict resolution as well as
theories about understanding, analyzing, and managing conflict. The course focuses on
the human and emotional aspects of conflict, and includes the influence of gender and
culture. This course is pragmatic as well as theoretical, and presents communication and
conflict resolution models in a practice-based approach. Offered all terms.
CARM 5100 - Mediation Theory and Practice
This course examines theories, methods, and techniques of mediation. Students will
have the opportunity to demonstrate their knowledge of mediation skills.
Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered fall and winter.
CARM 5140 - Negotiation Theory and Practice
This course examines conflict intervention from the perspective of the
disputant/negotiator. The integration of theory and practice will emphasize the tactics,
strategies, and operations of effective and ineffective bargaining/negotiating behavior.
The course develops negotiator skills and knowledge, leading to collaborative-based
actions and solutions.
Prerequisites: CARM or CARD 5040. Offered winter.
CARM 5200 - Research Design and Program Evaluation
This course focuses on the development of applied research skills appropriate for dispute
resolution practitioners, including basic research tools, assessment, social science
