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

Core Requirement3
Electives12
Total Hours15

Core Requirement

SOCIO:200Social Justice3
Total Hours3

Electives

Choose 4 courses from the list below:12
COMM:444Communication & Conflict
SOCIO:441Sociology of Law
ANTH:460Field Methods in Cultural Anthropology
MGMT:302Organizational Behavior & Leadership Skills
CRJU:465Crisis & Trauma: Assessments & Interventions
CRJU:298Applied Ethics in Criminal Justice
CRJU:405Policing Theory and Strategy
SOWK:270Diversity and Social Work
COMM:355Freedom of Speech
ENGL:350Black American Literature
HIST:354American Immigration
HIST:350U.S. Women's History
HIST:360United States Military History
HIST:362African American History, 1877 to Present
HIST:378Spanish Conquest and Colonization of the Americas
HIST:382The Vietnam War
HIST:395Modern Iran
HIST:438Nazi Germany
HIST:454Civil War & Reconstruction, 1850-1877
HIST:469African-American Women's History
HIST:472Empire, Genocide, and Mass Violence
SPAN:307Spanish Conversation: Health Professions & First Responders
SPAN:308Spanish Composition: Health Professions & First Responders
SPAN:360Hispanic Culture through Film
PHIL:456Philosophy of Race & Ethnicity
PHIL:327Law and Morality
POLIT:334Law, Mediation, and Violence
PSYC:425Psychology of Hate
SOCIO:433Sociology of Deviant Behavior
SOCIO:421Race & Ethnic Relations
SOCIO:428Victim in Society
SOCIO:401Advanced Topics in Research Methods
SOCIO:342Sociology of Health & Illness
SOCIO:325Sociology of Women in Global Society
SOCIO:415Women in Prison
SOCIO:431Theories and Practices of Correctional Systems
SOCIO:447Sociology of Gender, Sex, and Sexualities
SOCIO:490Organizations, Community, and Social Action
SOCIO:435Sociology of Love
SOCIO:450Sociology of Mental Illness
WMST:200Introduction to Women's Studies
WMST:580Feminist Theory
CHFD:401American Families in Poverty
Total Hours12