Undergraduate Programs
Conflict Resolution Minor
The minor in Conflict Resolution is sponsored by the International Studies Program. It offers an interdisciplinary curriculum that can help students both discover and prepare themselves for any career. The course of study provides skills in conflict analysis and resolution and a useful understanding of integrative institutions at the local, regional, and international levels. Conflict plays a key role in all areas of our lives. It can have destructive or constructive potential. This program explores how conflict arises, how it is represented and discussed, how it is prevented, mitigated, managed, and used for change in interpersonal relations, within and between organizations and other kinds of groups inside nations, and in conflict between nations.
The curriculum includes training to become a certified mediator in the State of California.
As an enrolled minor you will be invited to special engagements where you can interact with leading community and government officials from the U.S. and other countries, prominent scholars, and other experts in local and international conflict resolution.
Required Courses:
- Political Science 149 Global Security and Cooperation (Fall)
- Political Science 154G/Anthropology 136D Conflict Management in Cross-Cultural Perspectives (Spring)
- Social Science 183A/Humanities 183A/Social Ecology 183A (offered each qtr.) International Studies Forum (repeated 2 times for 2 units each, pass/no pass)
- Social Science 183B/Humanities 183B/Social Ecology 183B (Fall, Winter, and Spring) Seminar in Conflict Resolution I (leads to Mediator Certification)
- Social Science 183CW/Humanities 183CW/Social Ecology 183CW (Winter) Seminar in Conflict Resolution II (fulfills the upper division writing requirement and can be waived for students who take another upper division writing course or write an honors thesis)
- Two upper division approved electives (may be in your major)
The program also provides a residential theme house in Arroyo Vista for all interested students. You can live with people who share your interests in the issues of cooperation and conflict. House activities include informal discussions with UCI professors and distinguished visitors, and trips to sites of interest off campus.
We recommend that you declare your minor no later than the end of your junior year. For further information please contact:
Dr. Paula Garb
Program Director
565 Social Science Tower
(949) 824-1227
pgarb@uci.edu
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