4 hours credit
Surveys the basic practical and theoretical foundations of conflict and conflict resolution. Introduces students to the basic theories and practices of conflict resolution providing them with a grounding in theories of conflict, their application, the dynamics of conflict, and an overview of key conflict resolution processes. Students learn to understand their own conflicts and how the theories, skill and practices of conflict resolution can make conflict productive. Three hours per week with enhancement. Meets General Education IIIB or IIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).

4 hours credit
Seeks answers to questions about why humans use violence to resolve conflict and what social forces produce conflict in families, ethnic and racial groups, economic groups and nation states. Explores nature and practice of nonviolent conflict resolution. Cross-listed with SOCI 225. May not receive credit for both CADR 225 and SOCI 225. Three hours per week with enhancement. Meets General Education IIIB or IIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).

4 hours credit
Examines the root cause of social conflict from a variety of theoretical perspectives. Conflict analysis is examined using psychological, sociological, anthropological, political and internal national relations perspectives. Identifies various factors, variables and social dynamics that often signal the onset of social conflict. Three hours per week with enhancement.

4 hours credit
Focuses on the variety of root sources of conflict between nation states. Underscores the early detection and successful prevention of large-scale acts of aggression and violence between nation states. Case studies will be employed to understand and explain these international disputes. Some key players in these conflicts will serve as resource persons for class. Three hours per week with enhancement.

4 hours credit
Culture and its impact on the interactions of individuals and groups is the core concern of this course. The norms, roles, values, beliefs and traditions of various ethnic and racial groups are primordial to an understanding of why there is conflict among groups. This class emphasizes cultural awareness as a means of more fully understanding the dynamics of controversies among different groups and examines a variety of 'rational' systems, belief and value structures that directly clash with those of neighboring groups. Three hours per week with enhancement.

4 hours credit
Selected areas of study within varied subfields of Conflict Analysis and Dispute Resolution. Course may be taken three times under different subtitles. Prerequisite: CADR 200. Three hours per week with enhancement.  Meets General Education IIIB or IIC (Prior to Fall 2008: IIB).

4 hours credit
Introduction to qualitative and quantitative social research methods. Emphasis on research design, question formulation, sampling techniques, hypothesis testing, data analysis, computer processing and practical research activity. Cross-listed with SOCI 321. May not receive credit for both CADR 321 and SOCI 321. Three one-hour lectures, one two-hour laboratory per week.

4 hours credit
Provides a supervised and mentored field experience practicing conflict resolution in local, regional, national or international settings and organizations. Students are required to design their own practicum experience with the assistance of CADR faculty in order to best suit their particular interests, career goals and aspirations. Prerequisite: Permission of the instructor and junior standing. Must apply for the practicum experience the semester before registering.

4 hours credit
Examines the practical and theoretical approaches to diagnosing and solving complex organizational conflict. Students will learn how to conduct needs assessment, a variety of organizational analysis techniques and how to construct an internal dispute resolution system for organizations within the private and public sector. Three hours per week with enhancement.

4 hours credit
Environmental conflict is the major problem facing most civilizations in the 21st century. This course provides a systems approach to the examination of the sources of environmental conflict as well as various ways to reach resolution. The core challenge is to balance basic human needs while effectively protecting, preserving or conserving vital parts of the physical and biological environment. This course presents a number of conflict intervention models and techniques. Three hours per week with enhancement.

4 hours credit
Business conflict can not only hurt profits but personal and professional relationships and, if left unchecked, can impact large groups of people outside the business setting. Conflict management techniques and processes are presented so that students will know how to more effectively manage conflict at an interpersonal level before they escalate into a scenario that requires more people to become involved and further drain business resources. Case studies, simulations and role-plays are used to teach conflict resolution skills that serve to prevent and manage conflicts from becoming destructive. Students will also learn how to become more effective negotiators through the use of interest-based tactics and strategies. Three hours per week with enhancement.

4 hours credit
Selected areas of study within varied subfields of conflict analysis and dispute resolution.  May be taken twice under different subtitles. Prerequisites: CADR 200. Three hours per week with enhancement.

1-4  hours credits
Enables advanced students to pursue individualized work through field study or other projects of their own choosing, under the direction of a faculty member. Students may use the resources available at the Center for Conflict Resolution to become involved in on-going projects. May be repeated for a maximum of eight credits with faculty approval. Prerequisites: CADR 200, major in conflict analysis and dispute resolution, and permission of instructor.

4 Credits
Advanced students pursue their own research project under the direction of a faculty member or assist a faculty member in a research project. Involves both archival and qualitative and/or quantitative social science research. May be repeated for a maximum of eight credits with faculty approval. Prerequisites: CADR 200 and CADR/SOCI 321, major in conflict analysis and dispute resolution, and permission of instructor.