Core Conflict Studies Courses

CFST 1100: Introduction to Conflict Studies
This multi-disciplinary course introduces students to the major approaches to understanding conflict at the interpersonal, organizational and socio-cultural levels. Students study how conflict is understood from a range of disciplinary perspectives and in a wide variety of settings so as to develop broad perspectives on the ways in which conflict can be analyzed.
Taught: Annually.

CFST 3100: Approaches to Conflict Response
Students develop an understanding and appreciation for the range and implications of various forms of conflict response and intervention in this course. They will study a range of response strategies to conflict, including escalation and de-escalation, coercion, persuasion, cooperation and reward, and will experiment with a variety of specific intervention techniques.
Prerequisite: CFST 1100 or permission of instructor.

CFST 3300: The Role of Conflict in Social Change
This course introduces students to basic concepts shared between conflict studies and social justice studies.  It also teaches them to examine connections between social conflict and people’s movements for social change. Students will learn to distinguish among interpersonal, organizational, and socio-cultural levels of conflict, be introduced to relevant social science frameworks, study the role of conflict in particular movements, and develop analyses of an aspect of that movement in which they are especially interested.
Offered: Annually.

CFST 3500: Technical Work, Conflict, and Teams
Build knowledge and skills in social conflict, team work, and cultural diversity among students whose life work will be in scientific and technical fields such as biology, biochemistry, chemistry, mathematics, and physics.
Content: Students develop understanding of the impact of cultural differences in work settings where scientific and technical work demand cross-disciplinary team work; learn conceptual frameworks for understanding conflict in interpersonal and organizational contexts; and build team work skills.
Offered: Annually.


Track I: Interpersonal Conflict

Anthropology 3490: Language and Culture
Anthropology 3580: Cultural Psychology
Communication 3360: Interpersonal Communication
Communication 3460: Intercultural Communication
Conflict Studies 3500: Technical Work, Conflict, and Teams
Legal Studies 3540: Family and Gender Issues in Law
Legal Studies 3750: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal Studies 3810: Criminal Law and Practice
Management and Economics 3110: Foundations of Management and Management Ethics
Management and Economics 3610: Human Resource Management
Psychology 3640: Theories of Psychotherapy
Psychology 3670: Theories of Motivation
Psychology 3740: Disorders of Childhood
Psychology 3800: Social Psychology
Sociology 3330: Sociology of Gender
Psychology 5600: Seminar: Advanced Topics in Social Psychology
Religion 3230: The Letters of Paul
Sociology 3250: Juvenile Delinquency/Juvenile Justice (a.k.a. Criminal Justice 3250)
Sociology 3350: Sociology of Racial and Cultural Minorities
Sociology 3370: Families in Crisis


Track 2: Group/Organizational Conflict

Anthropology 3580: Cultural Psychology
Communication 3360: Interpersonal Communication
Communication 3380: Small Group Communication
Communication 3390: Organizational Communication
Conflict Studies 3500: Technical Work, Conflict, and Teams
Criminal Justice 3880: Current Issues in Criminal Justice
Legal Studies 3560: Law of Business Organizations
Legal Studies 3600: Business Law (or Management and Economics 3600: Business Law)
Legal Studies 3750: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Management and Economics 3110: Foundations of Management and Management Ethics
Management and Economics 3510: Labor Economics
Management and Economics 3610: Human Resource Management
Management and Economics 3690: Decision Science
Management and Economics 5850: Strategic Management
Political Science 3700: Public Administration and Public Policy
Political Science 3740: Political Psychology
Psychology 3700: Industrial/Organizational Psychology
Psychology 3800: Social Psychology
Sociology 3330: Sociology of Gender
Sociology 3350: Sociology of Racial and Cultural Minorities
Sociology 3370: Families in Crisis
Sociology 3390: Social Psychology
Sociology 3500: Culture in Transition
Sociology 3530: Political Sociology

Track 3: Socio-cultural Conflict

Anthropology 3230: Made in China: The Cultures of Economic Transformation
Anthropology 3330: North American Indian History and Cultures
Anthropology 3360: Race: Biological Fact or Cultural Construct?
Anthropology 3430: Transnational Migration and Diasporic Communities
Anthropology 3460: From Development to Globalization
Anthropology 3570: Religion, Culture and the State
Anthropology 3570: Religion, Culture, and the State (a.k.a. Religion 3570)
Communication 3360: Interpersonal Communication
Communication 3380: Small Group Communication
Communication 3460: Intercultural Communication
Communication 3670: Gender, Communication, and Knowledge
Conflict Studies 3330: The Role of Conflict in Social Change
Education 5620: Education and Cultural Diversity
English 3450: Studies in Literatures Across Culture
English 3570: Women and Literature
History 3200: Topics in Race and Ethnicity
History 3800: Topics in Gender History
Latin American Studies 5100: Contemporary Issues in the Americas
Legal Studies 3100: American Constitutional Law (a.k.a. Political Science 3100)
Legal Studies 3330: Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy (a.k.a. Philosophy 3330)
Legal Studies 3520: Civil Litigation and Trial Practice
Legal Studies 3540: Family and Gender Issues in Law
Legal Studies 3750: Alternative Dispute Resolution
Legal Studies 3810: Criminal Law and Practice
Management and Economics 3510: Labor Economics
Management and Economics 3700: International Economic Development
Philosophy 3250: Feminist Philosophy
Philosophy 3330: Social, Political, and Legal Philosophy
Political Science 3430: Gender Politics
Political Science 3570: Ethnic and Civil Conflict
Political Science 3630: American Political Thought
Political Science 3640: Contemporary Political Ideologies
Political Science 3680: Politics and Society in Developing Areas
Political Science 3690: Politics of Urban and Metropolitan America
Political Science 3720: Political Violence: War, Revolution, and Terrorism
Psychology 3800: Social Psychology
Religion 1510: Jewish Ethics (previously 311)
Religion 3230: The Letters of Paul
Religion 3300: Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Ancient and Medieval World
Religion 3310: Reformers and Revolutionaries in the Modern World
Religion 3350: Contemporary African-American Religious Thought
Religion 3410: Feminist/Womanist Approaches to Christian Ethics
Social Justice 3200: Sexuality and the Law
Sociology 3330: Sociology of Gender
Sociology 3350: Sociology of Racial and Cultural Minorities
Sociology 3390: Social Psychology
Sociology 3500: Culture in Transition
Sociology 3750: Criminology
Sociology 5950: World System Theory
Women’s Studies 3500: The Politics of Sisterhood, 1960-1980
Women’s Studies 3500: Women, Conflict & Social Change
Women’s Studies 3650: Global Feminisms