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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Yearly; 1.00-3.00 Credits; S) Students learn a basic model of mediation and the theoretical framework which guides its use. Role plays and simulations will be used to prepare students to serve as mediators in a variety of contexts. Particular attention will be given to the use of mediation in educational contexts.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Yearly; 4.00 Credits; I,CW) A survey of the literature, issues and people that make up the field of Peace and Conflict Studies. The course looks at the language and the methodologies that have developed around the academic inquiry into war and deep-rooted conflict as human problems and peace as a human potential.
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3.00 Credits
(Fall; Yearly; 2.00-3.00 Credits; S) This course provides practical and theoretical approaches to community living, group communication, and conflict skills. Through lecture, reading, reflection, action, and writing, students living in an intentional community will learn skills that will transfer to other contexts and aid in their approaches. This course takes place at the Raystown Field Station. Prerequisite: ESS100.
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2.00 Credits
(Variable; Variable; 1.00-2.00 Credits; H,I) Allows the department to offer topics not normally taught. Prerequisites vary by title.
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3.00 Credits
(Either Semester; Yearly; 4.00 Credits; S) See EB202
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3.00 Credits
(Fall; Yearly; 4.00 Credits; IC,CW) This Interdisciplinary Colloquium examines the overlap between political science and psychology. Topics include how and why citizens from political attitudes, how elected officials make decisions, the influence of values, the structure of political beliefs and ideologies, how citizens interact with each other, political persuasion, and attitude change. Special attention will be given to using political psychology to understand contemporary politics. Prerequisites: Sophomore, Junior or Senior standing.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; CW,S) The course explores the roles third parties play in managing and resolving conflicts. Students become familiar with both the central components of intervention design and the nature and structure of third party roles ranging from managers as mediators to conflict intervention in community disputes, or third party intervention in international disputes. The focusing questions of the course center on issues of how and when third parties can effectively and ethically intervene in conflicts productively. Research, case studies, and simulations are used to explore the answers of these questions and to increase students understanding of how third parties affect the course of conflict Prerequisites: PACS 105
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; S) (See PY 208)
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Yearly; 3.00 Credits; H,I,CW,CS) see RU 235.
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3.00 Credits
(Spring; Variable; 4.00 Credits; CA,H,N,CW) This course examines the development and ramifications of nuclear weapons. Students will learn the basic physics upon which these devices operate, and explore moral issues that arose in the interactions of communities impacted by their construction, use and testing, including the perspective of scientists, government officials, and affected citizenry. Current concerns regarding nuclear weapons will be studied as well.
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