ICM 5073 - Conflict Management Clinical Internship (3)

This course is designed to offer a relevant experience in the application of learned skills to the unpredictable work world in which they must be tested. Daily involvement in the professional discipline of the student’s choosing (i.e., religious setting, professional mediation, education, ombudspersons, compliance officers, risk managers, human resources, etc.) and meetings with the student’s course faculty advisor will form the basis of this learning experience. The purpose of this experience is to the give the student the opportunity to test acquired learning in conflict resolution in day to day working world realities and begin to transition into a career path of his or her choosing. First, we will orient the student to the work of the problem solver. Second, we will examine conflict resolution skills in the context of the student’s intended working world. Third, we will examine the obstacles to applying conflict resolution skills to the workplace and the strategies for overcoming them. Finally, the course will demonstrate how academic training must be adapted to the workplace realties and how systems, leadership styles and workplace culture, affect the work of conflict resolution.

This is pass/fail.
Prerequisite: ICM 5023 and the consent of ICM director.