Negotiation, Conflict Resolution and Peacebuilding, Master of Arts

Requirements

Course List

Code	Title	Hours
Required Courses
NCR 500	NCRP Skills Concepts & Tools	3
NCR 503	Ethics of NCRP	3
NCR 504	Theories of Conflict	3
NCR 507	Sem. Res Desig/Intrepret	3
NCR 508	Communication and Conflict	3
NCR 522	Negotiation Tactics	3
NCR 525	Mediation	3
NCR 544	ADR Processes	3
Electives
Select three or four courses from the following: 1		9-12
NCR 527	Arbitration
NCR 529	Conflict Res Internship
NCR 530	Online Dispute Resolution
NCR 531	Marital & Family Mediation
NCR 532	Dispute Resolution Clinic
NCR 533	Labor Conflict
NCR 535	Organizational Conflict
NCR 536	Dispute Resolution for Sports
NCR 537	International NCRP
NCR 538	Sem: Public Policy Conflict
NCR 540	Sem: Community Conflict
NCR 541	Restorative Justice&Peacbldng
NCR 542	Collaborative Law
NCR 543	Conflict Resolution in Schools
NCR 545	Intercultural Conflict
NCR 546	Conflict and the Media
MFT 580	Sociocultural Diversity & Marginalized Communities
MFT 584	Law, Ethics, and Professional Practices
Capstone
Select one of the following capstone options:		3-6
Portfolio:
NCR 591	Seminar: NCR Capstone Course
Thesis (if approved under special circumstances):
NCR 598	Directed Research
NCR 599	Thesis or Project
Total Hours		36-42

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NCR 595 Special Topics is offered as an elective on a selected basis, no one topic to exceed six units.

Notes: Failure to satisfy the GWAR by the completion of the first semester of the student's enrollment in the program will prevent the student from continuing in the program until satisfaction of the requirement.

Program Learning Outcomes

• Demonstrate an understanding of the contributions of Africana Studies, Anthropology, Asian Pacific Studies, Chicana/o Studies, Women’s Studies, and Peace Conflict Studies, and other applicable similar disciplines to the field of negotiation, conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
• Demonstrate the ability to bring ethnic, cultural, religious, creative, critical, ethical, historical, and humanitarian understanding to problem solving in this new millennium.
• Demonstrate the ability to select and apply tools of negotiation, conflict and peacebuilding appropriately to achieve personal, community, national and international goals.
• Demonstrate, as a conflict participant, the ability to negotiate through mediation a peaceful resolution that meets or exceeds predetermined goals; and, as a neutral, the ability to mediate to bring two or more parties to a successful peaceful agreement.
• Demonstrate the ability to find, read, understand, and objectively as well as critically evaluate educational materials concerning specific conflicts and their causes.
• Demonstrate the ability to integrate theoretical, analytical, research and practical skills by analyzing the sources and dynamics of specific conflicts.
• Demonstrate the ability to research and write clear, concise, coherent, and correct prose, evidencing critical thinking at the graduate level.