Online Certificate in Conflict Resolution

In this course, students will be introduced to the history and evolution of conflict resolution as well as basic concepts and methods required to work through the process. Students will explore the importance of communication in a conflict resolution environment and build strategies for their own personal use.

This course provides a general introduction of culture through anthropology, with a focus on kinship and community structure. Students will explore the way anthropology has offered a coherent system for understanding broader social connections. Because family, kin and community are rapidly changing units in contemporary culture, students will study historical and current perspectives and consider both the western and global contexts and look at their emerging forms.

This course provides an introduction to intercultural communication concepts to develop intercultural awareness, patterns of perception, and worldviews to enable effective communication within and across cultures. Students will critically assess and apply intercultural communication theories to address social justice issues and ethics, bound by culture, through mindful and self-reflexive intercultural practices. Explore the nature of culture and cultural definitions; privilege, power, and oppression in historical and contemporary U.S. society; globalization, transnational conflict, and modern technological influences in intercultural practices; representation of cultures and identities in popular media; and the relationship between language, power and culture.