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The Minor in Alternative Dispute Resolution

Course Requirements for the Minor: 21 units

The following courses, or their approved transfer equivalents, are required of all candidates for this minor.

The purpose of the Minor in Alternative Dispute Resolution is to allow interested students to build a knowledge and skills base sufficient for the practical application of effective conflict resolution in a variety of institutional settings. The core courses deal specifically with the techniques of conflict resolution, including negotiation techniques and strategies, and alternative conflict resolution techniques.

4 courses required:

SUBJ NUM Title Sustainable Units Semester Offered Course Flags
MGMT 345 Negotiation Techniques for Conflict Resolution   3.0 FA  
This course explores creative, integrative approaches to conflict resolution. Includes bargaining games, role-plays, cases, issues in conflict management, interpersonal influence processes, cultural, and ethical implications of bargaining problems and personal negotiating styles. 3 hours lecture. (005703)
POLS 452 Alternative Dispute Resolution   3.0 INQ  
Focus on the various methods of negotiation and dispute resolution including mediation and arbitration with primary emphasis on the legal rights and principles involved in alternative dispute resolution especially in the process of arbitration. Major social and scientific theories of conflict will be explored as well as conventional disciplines and new approaches of conflict avoidance and resolution. Ethical issues involved in negotiation, mediation, and arbitration will be covered. 3 hours lecture. (007579)
POLS 454 Legal Research and Writing   3.0 FS  
Learn techniques of legal research and writing. Write briefs, memoranda, and other legal documents based on library research with cases, treatises, law reviews, statutes, regulations, etc. 3 hours lecture. (007581)
POLS 489K Internship in Legal Studies   1.0 -3.0 FS  
Prerequisites: Faculty permission.
See description below. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (007621)

3 courses selected from:

SUBJ NUM Title Sustainable Units Semester Offered Course Flags
BLAW 413 Employment Law   3.0 FS  
Prerequisites: At least junior standing.
An in-depth study of federal and California employment laws as they affect the management of human resources, with appropriate consideration of ethical and global dimensions. Emphasis is on the legal rights and responsibilities of employers and employees in the employment relationship, primarily in a private-sector, non-union environment. 3 hours discussion. (001352)
BLAW 414 Labor Law and Collective Bargaining   3.0 FS  
Prerequisites: At least junior standing or faculty permission.
Intensive examination of unions in an organizational setting. Includes organizational and concerted activities, collective bargaining and employee/employer rights and responsibilities. Includes applied collective bargaining project. 3 hours discussion. (001343)
CMST 370 Introduction to Organizational Communication   3.0 FS  
Prerequisites: CMST 131, CMST 330, CMST 331 with a grade of C- or higher.
The study and survey of major content areas of organizational communication theory and research. Contemporary theories related to organizational environments are reviewed with an emphasis on technology in organizations and its relationship to communication process. Content areas include ethics, networks, diversity and cultures, changing employer-employee relations, feedback, groups, home-workplace tensions, and various emerging topics in the field. 3 hours discussion. (002222)
PHIL 342 Roots of War and Prospects for Peace   3.0 FS  GE
A critical examination of diverse philosophical views regarding the causes of war and the prospects for peace. 3 hours seminar. This is an approved General Education course. (007224)
PHIL 344 Comparative Peace Studies   3.0 FS  GE
An interdisciplinary cross-cultural survey of prospects for peace. Focuses on non-violent modes of conflict resolution. Major philosophical and social scientific ideas from both the pacifist and non-pacifist traditions are examined in depth. 3 hours lecture. This is an approved General Education course. (007228)
POLS 422 Political Socialization and Behavior   3.0 SP  
A study of the learning of political attitudes; the role of the family, school, peer group, and others in the political socialization process; the process of accommodation or non-accommodation to the value patterns of society and ultimate political behavior. 3 hours lecture. (007545)
POLS 438 Jurisprudence: Philosophy of Law   3.0 FS  
This course is also offered as PHIL 438.
The philosophical nature and origins of law. Topics to be examined include theories of law, justice, the relationship of law to morality, natural law, responsibility, punishment, and other basic concepts. Approach is both theoretical and via case studies. 3 hours lecture. (007282)
POLS 460D Collective Bargaining   3.0 INQ  
Prerequisites: Faculty permission.
An examination of basic concepts and practices found in the collective bargaining relationship. Special focus on the public sector in California. 3 hours lecture. (002663)
POLS 462 Organizational Theory   3.0 FS  
Prerequisites: POLS 460A or concurrent enrollment.
An intensive examination of the theory and research on organizational design, with an emphasis on applications of the theories. Focus is on how organizations develop structures to meet various internal (e.g., size, technology) and external (e.g., stakeholders, uncertainty) demands. 3 hours lecture. (007597)
POLS 464 Administrative Law   3.0 FA  
Study of the role of administrative law in American government. Scope and implications of discretionary decision-making. 3 hours lecture. (007599)
POLS 466 Public Administration and Collaborative Management   3.0 INQ  
This course is intended to introduce students to the individual and group processes which occur in collaboration between governmental and non-governmental organizations. Such processes include leadership, communications, cooperation and conflict management, motivation, group effectiveness, decision-making and community problem-solving. 2 hours lecture. (007601)
POLS 489L Internship in Public Law   1.0 -3.0 FS  
Prerequisites: Faculty permission.
POLS 489K and POLS 489L: Field work in law in various projects such as bail service, welfare rights, legal aid, penal law, consumer law, environmental law, housing law, etc. Work supervised by faculty and/or cooperating legal organizations. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. Credit/no credit grading. (007622)
POLS 493 Community Research   1.0 -15.0 FS  
Prerequisites: Approval of the Department of Political Science.
This course is a special topic offered for 1.0-15.0 units. You must register directly with a supervising faculty member. Organized research and development of a problem in community administration. Students may enroll for 1 to 15 units, and will engage for a part or the whole of their time in the community. A seminar focusing on analysis of the project and the experience will be held weekly or at other appropriate times. Only a total of 6 units of POLS 489 and POLS 493 may be counted toward the requirements of the major or the Paralegal Certificate, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Certificate, or the Alternative Dispute Resolution minor. 9 hours supervision. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. (007655)

Note: POLS 493 must be taken for 3 units.

SUBJ NUM Title Sustainable Units Semester Offered Course Flags
POLS 489M Community Legal Information Center Directorship   1.0 -15.0 FS  
Prerequisite: Approval of the Department of Political Science.
This course directs students through the process of being a director at the Community Legal Information Center (CLIC). As a director of CLIC, the students have the opportunity to take on significant administrative responsibilities for the day-to-day operations of the on-campus law clinic. Registration for this course is attained through an application process in the spring semester. Enrollment in this course is required in both the fall and spring semesters. In addition, each director will have CLIC responsibilities during the summer and intersession. Only a total of 3.0 units of this course may be counted towards the requirements of the major, the Alternative Dispute Resolution Certificate, the Paralegal Certificate, or the minor in Alternative Dispute Resolution. You may take this course more than once for a maximum of 15.0 units. (020651)
PSYC 395 Social Psychology   3.0 FS  
An overview of social psychology, emphasizing the variety of social factors that influence individual behavior. 3 hours lecture. (007952)
SOCI 486 Sociology of Law   3.0 INQ  
This course explores the social context of law, legality, and society, concentrating on the numerous ways that law permeates all forms of social behavior. The focus is on the relationships between law, social institutions and social change, and how they interact with issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, and social justice. 3 hours lecture. (009016)
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