Disagree Better

Catalog description

Students in this course will learn healthy conflict styles, tools, and strategies for conflict resolution, including collaboration, mediation, and negotiation--skills that allow people to work with both advocates and adversaries to find solutions to problems. Whether it’s a dinner table conversation that turns to politics or a business negotiation, healthy and respectful conflict management and artful persuasion are tools for everyday life. Learners will also be introduced to major theories of conflict resolution and persuasion and how they can be applied in various scenarios to disagree better. Key topics to be covered in the course include negotiation strategies, efficient and effective persuasion skills, conflict avoidance and resolution, and serving the greater good by disagreeing better.