Conflict Management

Catalog description

This course will introduce students to principles of conflict management relevant to enhancing their roles in the legal profession and as community-engaged citizens. The course will expose students to specific conflict management and difficult conversations language, theory, and skills necessary and helpful to be more effective conflict managers, guide students in self-assessment and discovery of their own conflict management characteristics and traits, present case studies, role playing, and problem solving exercises for students to practice situational strategy, and seek reflections on ethical and professional considerations in decision making. Students are evaluated based on class discussion, written assignments, exercises, and simulations.