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Skills in Dispute Management - LAWS8165

Faculty: Faculty of Law

School: Faculty of Law

Course Outline: See below

Campus: Sydney

Career: Postgraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 2

Enrolment Requirements:

Prerequisite: Academic Program must be either 9200, 9235, 5740, 9210 or 5235

Excluded: JURD7665

CSS Contribution Charge: 3 (more info)

Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

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Description

Conflict is an inevitable part of daily work and personal life, but the development of dispute management skills is an often-overlooked part of professional development. This course provides students with a foundation in conflict management skills that they can apply immediately in their personal and professional lives. It introduces students to models of communication and conflict analysis, and a range of skills for managing disputes in a constructive manner. Drawing on insights from fields such as psychology, management, political and social sciences, this course is strongly interdisciplinary and oriented towards providing students with practical skills informed by theory. It is designed as a highly interactive course and involves both online and face-to-face activities.
This course is available to all LLM students, forms part of the Dispute Resolution stream and is available to students in the Master of Dispute Resolution and the Graduate Diploma of Dispute Resolution.

This course is also available to students undertaking relevant postgraduate non-law degree programs at UNSW, provided such enrolment is approved by the appropriate non-law Faculty.

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Course Aims

This course aims to provide students with a foundation in conflict management skills that they can apply immediately in their personal and professional lives. It introduces students to models of communication and conflict analysis, and a range of skills for managing disputes in a constructive manner. It aims to give students a grounding in the interdisciplinary basis of conflict resolution by providing insights from fields such as law, psychology, management, political and social sciences.

Main Topics

The topics covered will typically include:
  • Communication theory and practice
  • Understanding Conflict
  • Introduction to conflict analysis
  • Skills in conflict management
  • Ethical issues in conflict management
  • Interdisciplinary approaches to conflict

Learning Outcomes

At the conclusion of this course, students should be able to:
  1. Understand conflict and conflict resolution models
  2. Undertake conflict analysis
  3. Articulate and apply the ethical dimensions of conflict analysis
  4. Demonstrate sound communication skills in conflict situations
  5. Understand psychological dimensions of conflict at a basic level
  6. Demonstrate effective written communication skills by articulating core concepts clearly, persuasively and appropriately
  7. Demonstrate effective oral communication skills by discussing and debating course concepts in a scholarly, reflective and respectful manner

Assessment

Class Participation 15%
Conflict Analysis Report 25%
Research Essay 60%
Law Books

Study Levels

Undergraduate Study Postgraudate Study Postgraduate Research Study Non-Award Study

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