Conflict Resolution offers three graduate certificates. Each credential has a separate application and is financial aid eligible. The Conflict Resolution and Applied Conflict Resolution certificates can be "stacked" if students seek further training toward the master's.
The graduate certificate in Conflict Resolution offers a mature foundation for any student seeking techniques for engaging and transforming disputes in organizational and community life. The required 20 credits will typically be completed in three terms of study.
- CR 512 Foundations of Conflict Resolution (4 credits)
- CR 513 Advanced Values and Ethics in Conflict Resolution (4 credits)
- CR 518 Psychology of Peace and Conflict (4 credits)
- CR 526 Advanced Intercultural Conflict Resolution (4 credits)
- CR 508 Workshop (4 credits)
20 total credits
A stand-alone graduate certificate in Applied Conflict Resolution offers a mature experiential learning for any student seeking state-of-the-art techniques and analysis for engaging and transforming disputes in organizational and community life. The required 22 credits can be completed in less than one academic year of study and, potentially, within two terms.
- CR 511 Research Methods in Conflict Resolution (4 credits)
- CR 509 Practicum (6 credits)
- 12 elective credits at the 500-level (up to 8 credits outside the program with advisor approval)
22 total credits
The Graduate Certificate in Holocaust and Genocide/Atrocity Prevention (H-GAP) will teach students about historic and current genocides and atrocities, and build foundational knowledge of best practices for identifying threats of atrocities and for implementing strategies to prevent future atrocities. Building upon historic examples of the Holocaust and other atrocities that have shaped the language and scope of the field, students will explore emerging scholarship about how identity issues, climate change, political trends and migration patterns impact the risks of genocide and mass atrocities; and about how to maximize the role of civil society actors, local governments, and international bodies in effective prevention efforts.
All students will complete a program of study to the H-GAP Coordinator. Other variable and special topic courses that incorporate more than one dimension of Genocide and Atrocity Prevention can be submitted for approval by the H-GAP Coordinator.
Required Courses (12 credits)
- CR 549 Intro to Holocaust and Genocide Studies (4 credits)
- CR 550 Holocaust and Genocide/Atrocity Prevention Synthesis (4 credits)
- GRN 515 Constructions of Power and Knowledge: Gender, Race, and Nations (4 credits)
Electives (8 credits chosen from the following courses):
- BSt 514 Racism (4 credits)
- BSt 550 Topics in African/Caribbean History and Culture (4 credits)
- CR 527 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (4 credits)
- Hst 510/Jst 510 The Holocaust (4 credits)
- GRN 520 Critical and Decolonizing Research Methodologies (4 credits)
- GRN 530 Social Justice Pedagogy (4 credits)
- GRN 550 Seminar in Gender, Race, and Nations (4 credits)
- PS 510 Genocide (4 credits)
- WS 571 Global Feminisms (4 credits)
20 total credits. All courses must be taken at the graduate level. Courses taken under the undifferentiated grading option (pass/no pass) are not acceptable toward fulfilling certificate requirements.