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Dispute Resolution

Concentration Requirements:

  • Please select a minimum of four courses (12 credits total) from the list below, including two INTAF courses.
  • Please note that this list will be reviewed and updated periodically. However, students should always check LionPATH to determine the availability of these courses in any given semester and review any mandatory prerequisites prior to enrolling.
  • Please note that enrollment in any course listed below is not guaranteed, especially when the course is outside of INTAF.
  • Classes included on the list below are approved to use as electives for this concentration. Any course that is not listed below must go through a formal review process. To begin this review process, please complete this form.
    • Courses that are not approved electives from the below list will NOT count towards your concentration unless you obtain approval through the review process.

SIA Elective Courses (please select at least two courses from the following list):

  • INTAF 505 – Strategy, Conflict, Peace (3 credits)
  • INTAF 510 – Cross-Cultural Conflict Resolution (3 credits)
  • INTAF 816 – War and Peace (3 Credits)
  • INTAF 823 – Global Human Rights Movements and Nonviolent Activism (3
    credits)
  • INTAF 897 – Special Topics: Global Migration: Threat, Opportunity or Necessity? (3 credits)
  • INTAF 897 – Special Topics: US-Latin American Relations: Cooperation and Conflict (3 credits)

Penn State Law Elective Courses (requires instructor and SIA faculty director approval prior to enrolling):

  • EXPR 936 – Negotiation and Dispute Resolution Design (3 credits)
  • EXPR 972 – Mediation of Environmental and Public Conflicts (3 credits)
  • INTR 966 – International Litigation and Arbitration (3 credits)
  • INTR 984 – International Commercial Arbitration (3 credits)
  • PROSK 938 – Conflict of Laws (3 credits)

Penn State Graduate Elective Courses:

  • CAS 509 – Democratic Deliberation (3 credits)
  • COMM 597 – Peace and Social Change Communication (3 credits)
  • HIST 565 – Palestine/Israel (3 credits)
  • LGWR 520 – Global Workers’ Rights (3 credits)
  • LGWR 550 – Protest in the Fields: Agricultural Workers and Rural Organizing in Global Context (3 credits)
  • PLSC 556 – Civil Conflict (3 credits)
  • PLSC 565 – International Conflict (3 credits)
  • PLSC 566 – Conflict Management, Termination, and Bargaining (3 credits)
  • PSY/SOC 584 – Attitude Formation and Change (3 credits)

Penn State 400-Level Elective Courses (please select no more than three courses from the following list):

  • AFR 443 – Ethnic Conflict in Africa (3 credits)
  • CAS 404 – Conflict Negotiation and Resolution (3 credits)
  • CAS 471 – Intercultural Communication Theory and Research (3 credits)
  • CED 417 – Power, Conflict, and Community Decision Making (3 credits)
  • CED 452 – Community Organization (3 credits)
  • LER 437 – Workplace Dispute Resolution (3 credits)
  • PLSC 420 – State Making (3 credits)
  • SOC 425 – Social Conflict (3 credits)

All World Campus courses, including any that appear as elective class options on this list, require enrollment permission from the SIA faculty director prior to registering for the class. Please contact the SIA academic adviser for more information.