Conflict Resolution

Undergraduate Courses

The Major and Minor

The Conflict Resolution major is 56 credits, with 20 required and the rest electives chosen by you, keeping your educational and career goals in mind. At least 16 credits of your electives must be upper division (300-level and above). The minor is a flexible 28 credits, also requiring 16 credits at the upper division.

Certificate in Transformative Messaging

What you learn

This certificate offers skills in communication and interpersonal interaction with an accent on social change/social movement contexts. These competencies can augment the tool kit of conflict managers, activists, media specialists, and those in personnel or the human services field.

How it works

The Certificate in Transformative Messaging is 16 credits; 4 required in Conflict Resolution and 12 from a list of electives below.  The certificate can be embedded within the CR major or minor, or it can stand alone alongside another major.  By completing the certificate with electives 303U, 306U and Comm 314U, students also satisfy their junior cluster requirement for Leading Social Change. 

 
TITLE Number Credits Required Elective
Nonviolent Interaction CR 101 2 certificate major/minor
Social Movement Messaging CR 201 2 certficiate major/minor
Introduction to Conflict Resolution CR 301U 4 major/minor  
Peace Studies CR 302U 4   major/minor
Consensus Building CR 303U 4   major/minor
Participating in Democracy CR 304U 4   major/minor
Ecology of War & Peace CR 305U 4   major/minor
Nonviolence: History and Campaign Design CR 306U 4   major/minor
Conflict Management Skills CR 307 4 major minor
Conflict Resolution Values & Ethics CR 310U 4 major minor
Conflict Resolution Psychology CR 311U 4 major minor
Intercultural Conflict Resolution CR 312 4 major minor
Environmental Conflict Resolution CR 313 4   major/minor
Introduction to Restorative Justice CR 314 4   major/minor
Conflict Resolution Career Preparation CR 411 4   major/minor
Evil & Hate CR 416 4   major/minor
Forgiveness & Atonement CR 419 4   major/minor
Individual & Group Reconciliation Processes CR 420 4   major/minor
Dialogue Across Differences CR 423 4   major/minor
Nationalism & Ethnic Conflict CR 427 4   major/minor
Human Values in War & Peace CR 428 4   major/minor
European Union as a Peacebuilding System CR 429 4   major/minor
Family Mediation CR 439 2   major/minor
Peer Mediation CR 440 2   major/minor
Storytelling & Conflict Resolution CR 441 4   major/minor
Peace Education CR 442 4   major/minor
Nationalism & Democracy in a Post-9/11 World CR 443 4   major/minor
Neighbors & Enemies: Cyprus, Greece & Turkey CR 444 4   major/minor
Gender & Conflict Resolution CR 445 4   major/minor
Human Rights & Conflict Resolution CR 446 4   major/minor
Civil Society & Conflict Resolution CR 447 4   major/minor
Transitional Justice & Peacebuilding CR 448 4   major/minor
        major/minor
         

Certificate in Transformative Messaging - 16 credits total

Course Requirements and Electives
course title course number credits required/elective
Nonviolent Interaction  CR 101 2 required
Social Movement Messaging  CR 201 2 required
Public Speaking COMM 220 4 elective
Social Media COMM 319 4 elective
Persuasion COMM 314U 4 elective
Media Writing WR 228 4 elective
Advanced Topics in Rhetoric ENG 490 4 elective
Social Psychology PSY 343 4 elective
Stigma & Social Inequality PSY 426 4 elective

 

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