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UNDERGRADUATE COURSES:
CONF 101 - CONFLICT AND OUR WORLD
CONF 301 - RESEARCH AND INQUIRY IN CONFLICT STUDIES
CONF 300- CONFLICT RESOLUTION TECHNIQUES AND PRACTICES
CONF 302- IDENTITY AND CONFLICT
CONF 330 - COMMUNITY, GROUP & ORGANIZATIONAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
CONF 340- GLOBAL CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
Section 001 - Agnieszka Paczynska
Section 002 - Dennis Sandole
CONF 399 - PHILOSOPHY, CONFLICT THEORY AND VIOLENCE
GRADUATE COURSES:
CONF 501 - INTRODUCTION TO CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
Section 001 - Ibrahim Sharqieh
Section 002 - Terrence Lyons
Section 003
Section 004
Prerequisite or co-requisite for all M.S. CONF majors.
Introduction to the field of conflict analysis and resolution. Examines definitions of conflict and diverse views of its "resolution." Explores thinking about human behavior and social systems as they relate to the origins of conflict and the role of conflict in violent and peaceful social change. Considers appropriate responses to conflict at interpersonal, intergroup, industrial, communal, and international levels.
CONF 502 - INTENSIVE INTRODUCTION TO CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
An introduction to the field of conflict analysis and resolution. Focuses on the study of human social conflict, the practices and strategies for responding to conflict and frameworks for trying to resolve conflict. Designed to introduce academic thinking about conflict analysis and resolution and to foster systematical and analytical thinking about conflict and conflict intervention.
Section 003 - Patricia Maulden
Section 004 - Mara Schoeny
CONF 601 - THEORIES OF CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Examines major social scientific theories of conflict. Emphasis is on the need for theories to inform our ability to resolve conflict. Weaves together ideas from conventional disciplines with new approaches especially to causes of deep-rooted conflict. Focus is on analysis as a tool.
CONF 610 - PHILOSOPHY AND METHODS OF CONFLICT RESEARCH
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Section 001 - Dennis Sandole
Section 002 - Tiffiany Howard
Section 003 - Maura Schoeny
Introduction to research design, including use of theory to define the problem; exploring research approaches; gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data. Latter includes field observation; field experiments; lab experiments (simulations); surveys and sampling techniques; and archival, documentary, and literature resources. Quantitative techniques include theories of measurement (numerical and ordinal scales); distributions; and analysis techniques (chi-square, correlating, and factor analysis). Briefly introduces philosophies of science, and its limits.
CONF 611 - RESEARCH METHODS II
Prerequisite: CONF 501 and 610.
This course builds on the foundation of CONF 610. It guides students through the design, execution, interpretation, analysis, presentation and evaluation of field research into conflict and conflict resolution.
CONF 642 - INTEGRATION OF THEORY AND PRACTICE
Section 001 - Adina Friedman-Hadji
Section 002 - Dennis Sandole
Taken in the last semester of master's students course work. Course assists students in developing their own "generic" theory of conflict by reviewing and integrating their prior course work. Students are expected to demonstrate a holistic comprehension of the field by writing a major essay of publishable quality about the causes, events, and resolution of a particular conflict of their own choosing.
CONF 650 - CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION ADVANCED SKILLS
This course introduces new and cutting edge practices, while providing you the structure to reflect on and improve your ability to work within conflict settings. We will focus on forms of conflict analysis and resolution that build on a meaning-making approach to understanding conflict. Themes that will be covered are positioning theory, narrative mediation, cross-cultural conflict resolution, dialogue, elicitive training, reframing and appreciative inquiry.
CONF 651 - CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION FOR COLLABORATIVE LEADERSHIP IN COMMUNITY PLANNING
Covers designing collaborative processes to work with diverse stakeholders to build meaningful and lasting shared agreements. Considers applications in land use, development, or other community planning contexts.
CONF 652 - CONFLICT RESOLUTION FROM PREVENTION, STABILIZATION, AND RECONSTRUCTION CONTEXTS
Considers Conflict Analysis and Resolution approaches to designing, implementing, and evaluating holistic cross-sectoral conflict-sensitive initiatives in areas of potential violence and post-conflict reconstruction and stabilization contexts.
CONF 656 - INTEGRATING COMPLEMENTARY APPROACHES IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
Considers designs and methods for conflict analysis and resolution that integrate multiple approaches, multiple stakeholders, and multiple methods. Applies to social conflicts in local and international contexts.
CONF 657 - FACILITATION SKILLS
Provide certificate students with the knowledge, skills, abilities, values and behaviours to 1) assess group dynamics, development and goals 2) plan and prepare for meetings, and 3) manage interactions and groups to accomplish goals.
CONF 659 - LEADERSHIP IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
Covers roles and styles of leadership in interpersonal, organizational, community, group, and international
CONF 660 - CONFLICT ASSESSMENT AND PROGRAM EVALUATION
The course examines the assessment, monitoring and evaluation of conflict resolution programs and initiatives and will teach the evaluation strategies relevant for work in conflict or post-conflict contexts.
CONF 690 - Domestic APT - PRACTICUM IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION - Two Semesters
Prerequisite: 501 or 801; 713 (714 or 715 recommended but not required)
A two semester course which involves students in an in-depth field study of ongoing conflict situations and in the design and delivery of intervention processes to manage or resolve the conflicts.
CONF 694 - INTERNSHIP
Prerequisite: 21 hours of prior course work, including 713 and 714. 715 recommended.
Under direction of the clinical coordinator, students will spend at least 160 hours working on a project involving the study and/or resolution of conflict. Students will be expected to mesh theory and practice through observation and experience. The course includes a comprehensive report analyzing the individual's experience.
CONF 695 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Narrative - Spring 2007
Empire and Conflict - Fall 2006
World Religions, Violence and Conflict Resolution - Fall 2006
Identity and Conflict - Fall 2006
Discourse Analytical Methods - Summer 2006
Identity and Conflict - Summer 2006
The Ethics of Practice - Spring 2006
Environment, Conflict, and Global Trade - Spring 2006
Conflict and History - Fall 2005
Identity and Conflict - Summer 2005
Gaming Conflict and Terrorism - Spring 2005
World Religions, Violence, And Conflict Resolution - Spring 2005
The Political Economy of Civil War - Spring 05
Identity and Conflict Summer 2004
Globalization and Domestic Conflict Spring 2004
World Religions, Violence, And Conflict Resolution Spring 2004
Approaches to Violence Fall 2003
Innovative Teaching/Learning in Conflict Analysis/Resolution Spring 2003
Organizational Development Consulting.
Creativity, Identity and Meaning-Making in Conflict Resolution
Ethnography in Conflict Zones
Effective Teaching in Conflict Analysis and Resolution
Narrative Research Methods: Exploring the Link between Inquiry and Intervention
Intrapersonal Conflict
Models and Metaphors: The Epistemology of Conflict Theory
CONF 697 - DIRECTED READING
Independent reading at the Master's level on a specific topic related to conflict analysis and resolution as agreed to by a student and a faculty member.
CONF 701 - THEORIES OF SOCIAL HARMONY
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801; CONF 601 recommended but not required.
This course is part of a series of theory courses and is the companion to CONF 601, theories of social conflict. This course explores theories which define and explain social harmony and cooperation. Examining social institutions which manage and mediate conflict at all levels (interpersonal to international), the course provides a foundation for subsequent courses in peace-building, peace-making, multi-lateral organizations, social change, and development.
CONF 702 - PEACE STUDIES
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801; CONF 601 is recommended but not required
This course covers diverse conceptions of peace and security, and reviews the rich history of research into peace movements and peace settlements.
CONF 703 - CONCEPTIONS OF PRACTICE
Prerequisites: CONF 501, 601, 713
This course provides a framework for integrating theory and practice in conflict resolution. Reviews types of practice and theories of intervention and change, discusses the analytic process of assessment and diagnosis before intervention. Considers how research can be incorporated into practice and how thoughtful practice generates research questions. Includes methods of program evaluation and action research. Students will be encouraged to identify and/or develop their own theories of practice.
CONF 708 - IDENTITY AND CONFLICT
This course is designed to explore complex interrelations of social identity and postmodern conflicts in society with the emphasis on the role of identity in processes of conflict resolution and transformation. Critical rethinking of ethnic, national and religious identities as both generators and outcomes of conflict will be important part of the course. Course aims to extend knowledge on structure and dynamic of identity-based conflicts and to develop a framework for their resolution. Course includes lectures, simulations, and case studies. The final assignment of the course requires students to conduct case study and design an intervention into a conflict of their choice.
CONF 709 - WAR, VIOLENCE, AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisite or co-requisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Considers various theories of violence, its causes, and conditions, and applies them to a variety of instances: family abuse, religious and ethnic violence; terrorism, revolution, and warfare. Insights gained from study of initiation, escalation, management, resolution, and prevention of violence are applied to theories about the resolution of deep-rooted conflicts.
CONF 713 - LABORATORY AND SIMULATION I: INTERPERSONAL AND INTER- GROUP CONFLICT
Prerequisite or co-requisite for all CONF majors: CONF 501 or 801.
An introductory skill-building course that integrates conflict theory and practice using a reflective practitioner model. Students will learn necessary skills for third party facilitation and mediation including active listening, empathy, paraphrasing, reframing, and negotiation, and analytical skills of problem solving and creation of transformational processes. Although these skills are essential for all levels of conflict intervention, cases for practice will mainly focus on interpersonal and inter-group conflict.
CONF 714 - LABORATORY AND SIMULATION II: Organizational & Community Conflict
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 and 713.
Moves from conflicts that are simply described to those with multilevel components, such as community and organizational conflicts. This course expands the skills acquired in 613 by adding the following: recording chronology; identifying roles played by various participants; observing turning points in the resolution process; precisely stating the agreed-upon solution.
CONF 715 - LABORATORY AND SIMULATION III: International & Inter-communal Conflict
Prerequisite: CONF 501, 713, and 714, or permission of instructor.
A continuation of the study of resolution processes as applied to highly complex systems, especially where one party denies the legitimacy of existing political authority. Considers third-party options for intervention in revolutionary and international conflicts, and means for building communication and trust among parties, and implementing agreements.
CONF 720 - ETHNIC AND CULTURAL FACTORS IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Examines the role culture plays in the genesis, structuring, and resolution of processes of conflict within and between groups. Special attention is given to ethnicity and other sub-cultural markers of identity in complex social systems as both the generators and outcomes of conflict. The relevance of these variables to the success or failure of conflict resolution is explored.
CONF 721 - CONFLICT AND RACE
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801. Cross listed as SOC 523
This course addresses historic analyses of racial and ethnic identity conflicts and their resolution.
CONF 722 - CONFLICT AND RELIGION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
This course explores the role of organized religions in conflict, war, peace-making, and conflict resolution.
CONF 723 - CONFLICT AND GENDER
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
This course examines constructs of gender and conflict as they relate to a critical analysis of theory and practice. Feminist theories will be reviewed for their contributions to social and conflict theories. Narratives will be used to explore how gender and power dynamics interact in conflict.
CONF 724 - CONFLICT AND "-ISMS"
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
"Them" and "Us". This course deals with the identification, analysis interrelationships and similarities among the various ways human being bifurcate themselves into "us" and "them" based on national, ethnic, religious, gender, and other criteria. Further, the course will explore the role these divisions play in the development and intractability of identity based conflicts and the implications for conflict analysis and resolution. Examples include: nationalism, racism, sexism, ageism, and classism.
CONF 725 - CONFLICT AND SPIRITUALITY
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
This course explores the role of spirituality in the naming, framing and unwinding of conflict. The roles of apology, reconciliation and forgiveness are considered as these relate to the deconstruction of enemy images in protracted communal and interpersonal conflicts. Relational empathy and ways of cultivating connection across perceived deep differences is examined.
CONF 726 - MORAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATIONS OF CONFLICT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
This course provides and overview of moral, philosophical and ethical underpinnings of conceptions of conflict and conflict resolution. The course enhances a student's ability to engage in discourse approaching conflict from a moral or philosophical disciplinary background.
CONF 727 - CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS OF CONFLICT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Introduction to techniques of participant observation and anthropological research. Provides insights into cross-cultural fieldwork experience, an important skill for facilitation working with groups outside their own "worldview." This course is highly recommended for students interested not only in understanding diverse groups, but in gaining first-hand insights into the wide variation in world views and values understandings held by different people.
CONF 728 - HUMAN RIGHTS THEORY AND PRACTICE IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Introduces students to major controversies and debates surrounding the use of human rights theory and practice cross-culturally. After a basic study of human rights philosophy, uses case studies from around the world to examine the problems and potential of human rights in today's globalized world.
CONF 729 - APPROACHES TO VIOLENCE
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Explores violence from a variety of intellectual and political perspectives. Readings are wide-ranging and interdisciplinary, addressing levels of analysis from the biological to the nation-state and transnational processes.
CONF 730 - STRUCTURAL SOURCES OF CONFLICT
Prerequisites: CONF 501 or 801 and 601 for MS or 802 for PhD.
Examines how structures and institutions affect behavior and give rise to conflictual relationships at all social levels, from the interpersonal to the international. Explores the role of conflict resolution as a political process proving opportunities for non-violent system change.
CONF 731 - CONFLICT IN ORGANIZATIONS
Prerequisite: 501 or 801
Explores the intersection and the dynamics of organizational behavior and the dimensions of conflict. Theoretical perspectives and cases are used to examine the issues involved in conflict analysis and resolution. Strategies for prevention and intervention are practiced. Students will conduct field research in the greater metropolitan district to help integrate course content.
CONF 732 - CONFLICT IN DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Economic and social development cause trauma as new ideas conflict with old ones. Particularly when development is generated or directed by forces outside of a culture, the conflict takes on deep rooted character. This course explores how conflict analysis and resolution approaches can be applied to conflicts of development and change.
CONF 733 - LAW AND JURISPRUDENCE IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Contrasts legal processes and institutions with alternative approaches to dispute resolution. Defines and distinguishes among law, "alternative dispute resolution," and problem-solving analysis as methods for resolving rather than controlling conflict. Asks to what extent legal procedures are truly applicable to resolving deep-rooted conflict.
CONF 734 - CRIME AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of instructor.
Explores the usefulness of conflict analysis and resolution perspectives in analyzing the causes, nature, and consequences of criminal behavior, and alternative approaches to the crime problem.
CONF 735 - GLOBAL CONTEXT OF CONFLICT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
The course advances students' skills and expands their knowledge base in critical analysis and creative problem solving. The root causes of conflict in a global context are examined in terms of gender inequality, cultural differences, unequal North/South relations, militarism, economic oppression, genocide, maldevelopment, religious and ethnic struggle, and environmental scarcity. Students are expected to develop their own conceptual tool boxes needed to analyze conflicts in different parts of the world.
CONF 736 - GLOBALIZATION AND INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Explores the meanings of globalization: economic, political, social, cultural: and examine how it affects conflict processes at the international level. It explores when and under what conditions globalization promotes cooperation or conflict.
CONF 737 - GLOBALIZATION AND DOMESTIC CONFLICT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Explores how globalization affects conflict processes at the domestic level. Topics include: economic interdependence and civil war; structural adjustment policies and distributional conflicts; changing cultural norms and gender roles, migration, tourism, and conflict.
CONF 738 – RESEARCHING CONFLICT IN HEALTH SYSTEMS
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801
This course is cross-listed in the graduate degree programs in health science as part of the certificate in health and conflict resolution. The course explores the special life-and-death dynamics of health systems as an arena for conflict. Students are expected to review and critique research on conflict in this field.
CONF 739 - COLLECTIVE ACTION, SOCIAL MOVEMENTS, AND GLOBALIZATION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Explores how people translate their underlying grievances into collective action. It examines how groups organize, frame and develop strategies and tactics to pursue their agendas and how the processes of globalization have influenced social movement dynamics.
CONF 740 - PARTY ROLES, RESOURCES, AND ETHICS IN CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisites: CONF 501 or 801, 713
Analysis and critique of the nature and roles in conflicts. Theoretical perspectives and case histories are used to understand the settings in which third parties may operate. Covers roles as mediator, conciliator, arbitrator, and facilitator, and types of intellectual and other resources third parties may bring to conflicts. Includes ethical assessment of third-party interventions in a variety of conflict settings.
CONF 741 - NEGOTIATIONS
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Student's negotiating experiences are used to construct a framework for thinking about and analyzing negotiation processes. The framework is then used to organize a review of the research literature on the "rhythms" and "patterns" of negotiation as well as to analyze a variety of actual cases. Exercises and class projects are interwoven with state-of-the-art concepts and findings as described in Professor Druckman's article in the October 1996 issue of The Negotiation Journal ("Bridging the Gap between Negotiating Experience and Analysis").
CONF 742 - MEDIATING POLICY CONFLICT
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Analysis of disputes involving the formation, implementation, and reform of social policy. Development and assessment of the roles of mediation and other intervention approaches in policy conflicts in the public, private, and citizens sectors.
CONF 743 - WAR TERMINATION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Analytical study of the nature of the "peace process" in terminating international, transnational, and civil conflicts. Includes analysis of parties' decision-making procedures during processes of de-escalation, pre-bargaining, and negotiation. Examines impact of various third-party roles (mediator, conciliator, facilitator) on the overall process, including implementation and monitoring of agreements. Takes as exemplary case studies efforts to terminate such conflicts of the Iran-Iraq war, the Cyprus dispute, and the Eritrean conflict.
CONF 744 - PEACE KEEPING
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
To what degree do international 'peace-keeping' forces embrace conflict resolution and peace-building as part of their mission? To what degree could conflict resolution be integrated? What are the roles conflict resolvers can play in peace-keeping environments?
CONF 745 - LEADERSHIP ROLES IN CONFLICT AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801 or permission of the instructor.
Working premise for the course is that leadership responses to conflict are affected by several variables among them: race, ethnicity, and gender. Explores roles of leadership decision-making styles as agents of conflict across a range of conflict scenarios at the interpersonal, community, organizational, and international levels.
CONF 746 - PEACE BUILDING
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
Building on initiatives of the United Nations and other multilateral organizations, this course will explore the dynamics of post-conflict peace-building. Further, it will prepare students of conflict resolution to play innovative roles in the reconstruction of civil societies.
CONF 747 - RECONCILIATION
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
This course explores processes of acknowledgment, reconciliation, forgiveness, and restitution. Literature, case studies and other research will be reviewed to assess the applicability and impact of these efforts.
CONF 748 - COMPARATIVE PEACE PROCESSES
Prerequisite: CONF 743 recommended but not required
The present course, is a more historical and comparative examination of a number of [fairly] recent efforts to bring to an end some of the many intra-state conflicts that appear to have emerged in the so-called "Post-Cold War" world but which, in reality, were merely suppressed, lying dormant or carried on at less noticeable levels of violence than came into being during the 1990's.
CONF 749 – WORLD RELIGIONS, VIOLENCE, & CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Prerequisities: CONF 501 or 801
Examines the ways in which world religions play a role in conflict and conflict resolution. Investigates the ways each religion’s values, world view, and hermeneutics can influence strategies for successful conflict interventions.
CONF 795 - PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT SEMINARS
Prerequisite: CONF 501 or 801.
These one and two-credit courses will be scheduled non-conventionally using weekends, concentrated presentations and intersession periods to give students advanced professional skills. Possible topics include:
- Conflict Resolution in Africa (Summer 07) Ambassador Osman
- Narrative Facilitation (Spring 07) Sara Cobb
- Holy Water (Fall 06) Lukacs/Oretskin
- Professional Opportunities in Conflict Resolution (Fall 06) Irmer/Engelbert
- Narrative Facilitation (Spring 06) Sara Cobb
- Positioning Theory and Protracted Conflict (Spring 06) Dan Rothbart
- Reconciliation Processes (Section 003) John McDonald & Eileen Borris
- Appreciative Inquiry (Section 005) - Sandra Cheldelin
- Action Research and Evaluation (Section 006) - Linda Johnston
- Cross Cultural Mediation (Section 007) - Linda Johnston/Alma Jadallah
- Reflective Practice (Section 008) - Wallace Warfield
- Media Skills (Section 009) - Richard Rubenstein
- Problem-Solving Workshops (Section 010) - Nadim Rouhana
- Principles of Negotiation Skills (Section 012) - Nadim Rouhana
- Mediation Clinic (Section 013) - Robert Scott
CONF 798 – MASTERS THESIS PROPOSAL
Prerequisites: CONF 501 and CONF 610.
Develop a research proposal for the masters’ thesis, including framing a queation, developing a literature review, and designing an appropriate methodology. Form the masters’ thesis committee and review the Human Subject Review Board’s guidelines and procedures.
CONF 799 - MASTER'S THESIS OPTION
Prerequisites: CONF 501, 713, 610.
Two semesters. Original research or analysis under the direction of a thesis committee.
CONF 801 - INTRODUCTION TO CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION
Prerequisite or co-requisite for all PhD CONF majors.
Introduction to the field of conflict analysis and resolution for Doctoral students. Examines definitions of conflict and diverse views of its "resolution." Explores thinking about human behavior and social systems as they relate to the origins of conflict and the role of conflict in violent and peaceful social change. Considers appropriate responses to conflict at interpersonal, intergroup, industrial, communal, and international levels.
CONF 802 - MICRO THEORIES
Prerequisites: CONF 801, and acceptance in the doctoral program, or permission of instructor.
An understanding human conflict requires knowledge of human behavior, motivation and perception. This course reviews and critically analyzes several psychological theories for their application to conflict analysis and resolution. The work of major personality theorists will be surveyed as well as material on cognition, creativity and change.
CONF 803 - MACRO THEORIES
Prerequisites: CONF 801, 802 and acceptance in the doctoral program, or permission of instructor.
Understanding social conflict and the potential for conflict resolution requires that both conflict and cooperation be perceived in relationship to patterns of social change. This course reviews and critiques significant theories of social change in order to establish a basis for creative conflict analysis and resolution.
CONF 810 - PHILOSOPHY OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Prerequisites: CONF 801 or permission of instructor.
A philosophical inquiry into the history and structure of ideas and the building of scientific hypotheses. This course assumes that the ways we think, as human beings, and the ways we build and test our theories about the world are closely linked. Explores and critiques the thinking of major 20th century thinkers from the social sciences on this topic, thus forming an introduction to research methodology.
CONF 811 - ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS I
Prerequisites: CONF 801, 810 or permission of instructor. (Note: A prior course such as STAT 510 in intermediate statistics is presumed).
Building on the logic of inquiry, this course introduces students to the steps in the research process needed to prepare a dissertation and implement published research. The course covers a wide array of quantitative and qualitative research approaches used in the social sciences with an emphasis on conflict analysis.
CONF 812 - ADVANCED RESEARCH METHODS II
Prerequisite: 811 or permission of instructor.
This course is a continuation of steps in the research process needed to prepare a dissertation and implement published research. It builds on 811 by extending the coverage of quantitative and qualitative research approaches used in the social sciences with an emphasis on conflict analysis.
CONF 890 - PRACTICUM IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS AND RESOLUTION - Two Semesters
CONF 890 - Domestic APT
Prerequisite: 801 and 713 (714 or 715 recommended but not required)
A two semester course which involves students in an in-depth field study of ongoing conflict situations and in the design and delivery of intervention processes to manage or resolve the conflicts.
CONF 897 - DIRECTED READING
Independent reading at the doctoral level on a specific topic related to conflict and conflict resolution as agreed to by a student and faculty member.
CONF 900 - INTEGRATING THEORY, PRACTICE AND METHOD IN CONFLICT ANALYSIS
Prerequisites: CONF 801, 802, and at least 9 further credits in the doctoral core program. Analysis of the theoretical basis undergirding the methods of research in conflict resolution. Exploration of how theory is built through the reciprocal influence of research and practice.
CONF 901 - THEORY DEVELOPMENT
Prerequisites: CONF 801 and 802 or permission of instructor.
Examines recent developments in theory and research in conflict analysis, with particular emphasis on project and dissertation work recently undertaken and completed. Its purpose will be to link ongoing research in this and parallel fields to students' own plans for dissertation work, and examine methodological approaches currently being used as well as the direction and focus of current substantive research.
CONF 998 - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION PROPOSAL
Prerequisite: successful completion of all course work and doctoral qualifying examinations. Work on a research proposal that forms the basis for a doctoral dissertation. May be repeated for up to 6 hours total credit towards degree.
CONF 999 - DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH
(Credits vary. At least 6 credits must be taken toward the degree.) Research on an approved dissertation topic under the direction of a committee. (NOTE: at least 12 credits of 998 and 999 must be accumulated toward the degree).
