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Student
Guidelines
Certificate
in Alternative Dispute Resolution
Description
Our alternative dispute resolution (ADR) curriculum
prepares students to manage conflict professionally as well as in their
personal lives. The use of ADR continues to grow as individuals and
organizations recognize the importance of using cost-effective and humane
means to address disputes. Increasingly, firms and organizations that use
ADR in their internal and external conflicts value employees with ADR
competencies. To document that our graduates are both knowledgeable and
practiced in this subject, UNT offers the
Professional Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution and the
Certificate of Mediation Training Completion.
Professional Certificate
The Professional Certificate in Alternative Dispute
Resolution is available to students who complete a total of 12 hours
comprised of three required courses and one elective course described below.
Upon completion of the 12 hours of course study in Alternative Dispute
Resolution, the student must submit a written request to the ADR advisor for
issuance of the Professional Certificate in Alternative Dispute Resolution.
Request forms are available in Chilton Hall, Room 263, or on the Internet at http://www.unt.edu/adrstudies/certificates.htm
Students who successfully complete the Mediation Course
(AECO 4000) and Practicum (AECO 4420) are also eligible to receive the
Certificate of Mediation Training Completion for satisfying the basic
mediation training requirement of the Texas Alternative Dispute Resolution
Act (Section 154.052, Texas Civil Practices and Remedies Act.) A
separate request form must be submitted for the Mediation Certificate.
NOTE TO ALL STUDENT: No notation of the Certificate
in ADR will appear on your official transcript. In order to receive
transcript documentation concerning ADR, you must fulfill the requirements
for the Interdisciplinary Minor in ADR.
Courses
Required Courses (9 hours):
AECO 4000 -
Mediation
This course
defines and examines the process of mediation. It explores the history and
development of mediation and introduces theories of conflict management.
The course also reviews the diverse settings of mediation, such as
domestic, commercial, non-profit, employment, and institutional
environments. Within each of these settings, significant legal, ethical,
professional, cultural, and gender considerations are explored. Students
participate in mediation exercises and simulations.
AECO 4120 -
Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
This course
introduces the fundamentals of nonlitigation-based dispute resolution and
negotiation strategies for a variety of business, professional, and
personal settings. Learning and skills are developed through lecture, role
playing, out-of-class assignments, case studies, and negotiation
simulations.
AECO 4420 -
Practicum in Mediation and Dispute Resolution
This course
provides an opportunity for students to round-out their education in
dispute resolution through participation in numerous exercises,
simulations, and actual mediations and/or other forms of alternative
dispute resolution. PREREQUISITE: AECO 4000.
Elective Courses (3 hours):
AECO 4010 – Family Mediation
This course covers mediation as a method for handling the issues that
arise in divorce or separation, as a family life skill, and as a method
for maintaining intact families. A background in family law is not
presumed, and basic Texas family law is covered. PREREQUISITE: AECO 4000
(2120)
AECO 4020 -
Workplace ADR
This course is a
review of alternative dispute resolution (ADR) to address sources of
conflict in the workplace. It examines procedures and benefits of
arbitration, mediation, ombudspersons, minitrials, neutral fact-finding,
and other alternatives to litigation-based conflict resolution. Trends in
use and ethical/professional considerations are examined.
AECO 4030 -
Dispute Resolution in a Global Workplace
This course
presents an overview of perceived benefits derived from and detriments
created by escalating levels of world trade. It examines the various
organizations that serve as umbrella coalitions for advocacy and
opposition to such trade, the type of workplace and trade issues
resulting domestically and internationally from such trade, and dispute
resolution options contained within trade agreements for addressing such
conflict.
AECO 4040 -
Crisis Intervention
This course provides an overview
of hostage negotiation and crisis intervention from the perspective of
multinational employers, government security, law enforcement agencies and
other organizations. It introduces students to individuals who have
intervened in crisis situations and reviews strategies used by crisis
negotiators to resolve conflicts that potentially could escalate into
life-threatening situations. Instruction includes a review of tactics,
techniques, behaviors, emotions, and motivations of the intervenors or
negotiators, the suspects, and the victims.
AECO 4980 -
Foundations in Dispute Resolution
This is a pilot course exploring the history of conflict
resolution and its evolution as a peace-making methodology
and interdisciplinary practice. The course will examine the dynamics and
origins of conflict as well as compare and contrast historic and
current conflict resolution models as presented in mythology, religion,
tribalism, government, and media. Students successfully completing this
course will gain an historic insight into conflict resolution and its
evolutionary development as a foundation for understanding this
continuously developing discipline and its many approaches.
Advising
The ADR Advisor is Dr. William
McKee. Dr. McKee is a nationally recognized arbitrator/mediator and is
responsible for the development and implementation of UNT’s ADR program.
He also heads the University-based Dispute Resolution System.
Dr. McKee’s office is located in Chilton Hall, Room
263.
He can be reached for appointments at (940) 565-3445 or by
e-mail.
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