Conflict Transformation & Social Entrepreneurship, Certificate
Certificate in Conflict Transformation & Social Entrepreneurship (370016C)
This uniquely interdisciplinary, free-standing certificate offers students an opportunity to acquire leadership skills and tools designed to enable the identification of social conflict, navigate and transform conflict into workable solutions, and work toward social justice, inclusion, and equality in the workplace and beyond. The multidisciplinary social-entrepreneurial skills students will learn through this certificate will prepare students for a style of leadership that brings people together from different disciplines and backgrounds in order to develop solutions to challenging conflicts that arise in our personal lives and in our professional lives in the local, regional, national, and global level.
Requirements for Admission
Students will be required to apply for the Certificate via an online application and upload a statement of interest. Students must be in good standing with the university and have a GPA of 3.0 to be eligible for the Certificate. Second-semester freshmen through senior status will be eligible to apply. Students pursuing any major are eligible for the certificate.
Program Contact
Dr. Robert Peralta
Professor, Dept of Sociology
Director, Center for Conflict Management
330-972-6915
rp32@uakron.edu
The following information has official approval of the Department of Sociology and the Buchtel College of Arts & Sciences, but is intended only as a guide. Completion of this certificate is contingent upon many factors, including but not limited to: class availability, total number of required credits, work schedule, finances, family, course drops/withdrawals, successfully passing courses, prerequisites, among others.
The following courses constitute a “Certificate in Conflict Transformation & Social Entrepreneurship” and must be completed with a minimum grade point average of 2.0 overall for the certificate to be noted on the student’s record.
Summary
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
Core Requirement | 3 | |
Electives | 12 | |
Total Hours | 15 |
Core Requirement
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
SOCIO:200 | Social Justice | 3 |
Total Hours | 3 |
Electives
Code | Title | Hours |
---|---|---|
Choose 4 courses from the list below: | 12 | |
COMM:444 | Communication & Conflict | |
SOCIO:441 | Sociology of Law | |
ANTH:460 | Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology | |
MGMT:302 | Organizational Behavior & Leadership Skills | |
CRJU:465 | Crisis & Trauma: Assessments & Interventions | |
CRJU:298 | Applied Ethics in Criminal Justice | |
CRJU:405 | Policing Theory and Strategy | |
SOWK:270 | Diversity and Social Work | |
COMM:355 | Freedom of Speech | |
ENGL:350 | Black American Literature | |
HIST:354 | American Immigration | |
HIST:350 | U.S. Women's History | |
HIST:360 | United States Military History | |
HIST:362 | African American History, 1877 to Present | |
HIST:378 | Spanish Conquest and Colonization of the Americas | |
HIST:382 | The Vietnam War | |
HIST:395 | Modern Iran | |
HIST:438 | Nazi Germany | |
HIST:454 | Civil War & Reconstruction, 1850-1877 | |
HIST:469 | African-American Women's History | |
HIST:472 | Empire, Genocide, and Mass Violence | |
SPAN:307 | Spanish Conversation: Health Professions & First Responders | |
SPAN:308 | Spanish Composition: Health Professions & First Responders | |
SPAN:360 | Hispanic Culture through Film | |
PHIL:456 | Philosophy of Race & Ethnicity | |
PHIL:327 | Law and Morality | |
POLIT:334 | Law, Mediation, and Violence | |
PSYC:425 | Psychology of Hate | |
SOCIO:433 | Sociology of Deviant Behavior | |
SOCIO:421 | Race & Ethnic Relations | |
SOCIO:428 | Victim in Society | |
SOCIO:401 | Advanced Topics in Research Methods | |
SOCIO:342 | Sociology of Health & Illness | |
SOCIO:325 | Sociology of Women in Global Society | |
SOCIO:415 | Women in Prison | |
SOCIO:431 | Theories and Practices of Correctional Systems | |
SOCIO:447 | Sociology of Gender, Sex, and Sexualities | |
SOCIO:490 | Organizations, Community, and Social Action | |
SOCIO:435 | Sociology of Love | |
SOCIO:450 | Sociology of Mental Illness | |
WMST:200 | Introduction to Women's Studies | |
WMST:580 | Feminist Theory | |
CHFD:401 | American Families in Poverty | |
Total Hours | 12 |