3 hours credit
Introduction to the various practices, history, and formative theories of the field; basic analytical and conceptual frameworks; and how theory and practice reinforce each other.  Explores how values and world views shape practices and will include reflective exercises to individual styles, value sets and approaches to conflict and intervention.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Explores basic negotiation and problem-solving theory and practice, from basic “two-party, one-issue disputes” to more complex cases requiring additional intervention skills.  Familiarizes students with the negotiation process; provides experience with conflict analysis and assessment; examines issues of effective data gathering, identification of stakeholders and getting people to the negotiation table; and reviews the process of assessment as it relates to selecting appropriate conflict resolution practices.  Three hours per week. 

3 hours credit
Examines the hidden sources of conflicts that are often embedded in social, legal, political, and organizational structures and systems.  Emphasizes rules, regulations, roles, contractual obligations, laws, informal agreements and other ties that bind people together to conflict among individuals and groups.  Examines organization, institution or government for root causes of conflict and create a new system that addresses the underlying issues, including internal conflict management programs within the new system.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
This course goes beyond basic mediation and negotiation to Engages students in the major debates and nuances of practice in the field, specifically focusing on the interpersonal level of intervention.  Distinctions are made concerning various mediation styles and various schools of thought on how and when to intervene in a case.  Students create their own models of practice from a wide range of process skills and approaches and applyprocess and analytical knowledge to cases possessing various levels of complexity.  Prerequisite: CADR 510.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Examines theoretical base relating to conflict sources and conflict intervention.  Provides a series of frameworks to place conflicts into various conflict maps and conflict models that will be used to analyze complex conflict dynamics.  Theory frames conflict and practical intervention decisions.  Theory and practice serve to inform each other in a cyclical, synergistic learning fashion.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Explores various research methods for collecting, tracking, managing, and analyzing quantitative and qualitative data.  Students will also learn how research drives process, practical and theorical developments.  Course include a research project that employs various forms of data collection and analysis.  Prerequisite: CADR 500.  Three hours per week. 

 3 hours credit
Explores the complexities of large group interventions including organizational, intergroup and international work.  This course familiarizes students with the challenges of large group consensus processes like multi-party arbitration, negotiated rulemaking, large case mediation and facilitation.  The class will cover the special challenges of large party disputes, such as working with representatives and constituents, external dynamics shaping the interaction at the table, engaging multiple levels of government and community, working internationally and dealing with the media.  Prerequisites: CADR 500 and CADR 510.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Examines services provided by conflict resolution practitioners.  Students will learn how to construct a workshop and training from beginning to end.  The class will design and implement a short training program for a local organization.  Students will use the exercise to examine questions pertaining to professional development such as: self marketing, developing and presenting conflict intervention products, developing and maintaining a solid client base and how to delicately write productive reports and evaluations.  Prerequisite: CADR 500. Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
A special topics course with varying content developed in response to faculty and student interests.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Selected areas of study within varied subfields of Conflict Analysis Dispute Resolution.  The content of this course will vary over time in response to faculty and student interests.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Students will develop and undertake an intensive, semester-long practicum, focusing on practical field-based experiential learning. Students will develop their practicum sites/projects with the assistance of the Academic Program Coordinator.  This course provides students with the chance to test their analytical and process skills in a live setting. The practicum will be mentored by a faculty advisor, so students must gain written permission from a faculty member to be their advisor on a particular practicum project.  Students will need to have their site or project approved and a contract specifying their intentions approved before the semester begins.  This course will require an average of 5-6 hours per week throughout the semester in addition to time reserved for classroom activity, reading and research for the final project.  Prerequisites: CADR 500 and CADR 520. 

3 hours credit
An advanced self-guided practicum.  Students will have the option to continue their previous practicum experience begun in CADR 640 or create a new practicum experience [subject to faculty approval].  Students seeking a second practicum experience different than their first need to create a new contract with a faculty member, design their practicum experience and have it approved by the faculty before the semester begins. This course will require an average of 5-6 hours per week throughout the semester in addition to time reserved for classroom activity, reading and research for the final project.  Prerequisites: CADR 640. 

3 hours credit
Permission of the instructor is required to take this course.  Students wishing to conduct a thesis must take this course.  Students who will pursue a thesis must make their intention known in their first year of study.  In order to finish on time, students need to begin the process at least one semester before the semester they undertake the course.  This course is a seminar that assists students through the thesis process and helps them create a thesis project of publishable quality.  It also provides students the opportunity to act as peer reviewers for one another.  Thesis students will be expected to meet incremental goals identified by the faculty advisor.  Finally, the thesis needs to be completed and publicly presented prior to the end of the student’s final semester.  Prerequisite: CADR 550 and permission of instructor.  Three hours per week.

3 hours credit
Permission of the instructor is required to take this course.  It is a requirement for students working on a professional development project.  Students who choose to focus on professional development must make their intention known in their first year of study.  In order to complete the project on time, students need to begin the process at least one semester before the semester they undertake the course.  This course is a seminar that helps students execute their professional development project.  Professional development project students will be expected to meet incremental goals identified by the faculty advisor.  It also provides students the opportunity to act as peer reviewers for one another.  The project needs to be completed and publicly presented prior to the end of the student’s final semester.  Prerequisite: CADR 610 and permission of instructor.  Three hours per week.