Course Title: Conflict Resolution Strategies and Skills

Part A: Course Overview

Program: C5001

Course Title: Conflict Resolution Strategies and Skills

Portfolio: DSC

Nominal Hours: 70.0

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Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
SOSK5081	Bundoora Campus	TAFE	365T Global Studies, Soc Sci & Plng	Distance / Correspondence	Term1 2012

Course Contact: Jennifer Brooker

Course Contact Phone: +61 3 9925 4115

Course Contact Email: jennifer.brooker@rmit.edu.au

Course Description

This unit has been designed to help the student understand the nature of  conflict and its effects on people in a range of  contexts, both at an individual and group level.  You will also look  at the processes involved in behaviour that occurs between different groups, called inter-group  behaviour, and its potential impact on group members.

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Working with young people

Learning Outcomes

The following topics will be looked at in more depth:
1.  What is conflict?
2.  The conflict process.
3.  Resolving conflict.
4.  Inter-group conflict

Overview of Assessment

Essay/project
Learning Journal