Conflict Management and Resolution
PRTH 552
Summary
Explore the Conflict Management and Resolution
course and what you can expect to learn through the semester.
Course Overview
Conflict Management and Resolution explores the basic theories and concepts of conflict resolution: its philosophical and historical development, paradigms, structure and function, and issues and trends in the field.
It will examine ways to implement conflict management and resolution from a Biblical perspective into the students personal life, workplace, and ministry settings.
Students will investigate the theoretical and practical aspects of conflict assessment, negotiation, problem solving, mediation, and arbitration.
Textbooks
- See the current booklist.
Professor: Dr. John Whitaker
Intended Outcomes
Students report spending 6-8 hours on homework as a weekly average.
Knowledge Outcomes
By the end of the course you should have:
- Learned to identify key elements that create conflicts within our personal life, workplace, and ministry.
- Learned the basic content of what is conflict management and conflict resolution.
- Gained a basic familiarity with implementing techniques and processes to resolve and management conflict.
- Gained an understanding of a Biblical perspective of dealing with conflict.
- Learned conflict-resolution strategy, listening skills, proper diversity and cultural experience as related to conflict management, applying biblical principles to conflict resolutions.
Values & Affective Outcomes
As a result of taking this course you should:
- Appreciate the proper understanding of conflict and how to deal with conflict.
Realize that conflict is inevitable and can be managed and dealt with in proper ways. - Come to believe that there is a clear and proper way to deal with conflict.
- Be motivated by know conflict and resolution strategies, learn better listening skills, develop a proper understanding of cultural differences, and learn how to apply Biblical principles within conflict resolution.
Skills Outcomes
At the end of this course you should:
- Be able to identify various aspects of conflict and chose a conflict-resolution strategy to deal with said conflict.
- Be able to apply biblical principles to any conflict resolution.
- Be able to articulate steps to deal with conflict and know when to press forward and when to stop.
- Be able to teach others how to handle conflict proper and biblically.