Fall 2010/Pasadena
CN506
Augsburger
CN506: CONFLICT AND CONCILIATION. David Augsburger.
DESCRIPTION: Conflict in personal, familial, congregational, and communal life
are continuing problems and possibilities in Christian ministry. This course
offers an experiential, clinical, theological, and pastoral approach to the
management, resolution, transformation, and utilization of conflict in both
personal and pastoral perspectives. As an interdisciplinary approach it will
draw on communication theory, therapeutic process, conflict studies, and
mediation skills.
SIGNIFICANCE FOR LIFE AND MINISTRY: The capacity to go beyond survival of
conflict to both transform it and utilize it in creative growth is essential in
ministry as a pastoral counselor, caregiver, mediator, educator, or
administrator.
LEARNING OUTCOMES: All class participants will (know) develop a cognitive
grasp of conflict theory; (be) integrate affective growth in comfort with and
appreciation of conflict dynamics; and (do) develop skill in coping,
recreating, and redirecting tensions in constructive conciliation.
COURSE FORMAT: An integration of lecture, dialogue, experiential exercise,
sociodrama, small groups, simulations, and class discussion of cases, theory,
and theology will allow opportunity for personal as well as professional growth
experiences to be processed and integrated into pastoral identity. Class meets
once each week for three hours.
REQUIRED READING:
- A minimum of 1200 pages of cases, theory, theology, and practice
including:
- Augsburger, David. Conflict Mediation Across Cultures. Louisville:
Westminster/John Knox, 1992. 310 pages. ISBN: 0664219616. Pub. Price: 29.95.
- __________. Hate-work: Working through the Pain and Pleasure of
Hate. Westminster/John Knox, 2004. 265 pages. ISBN: 0664226825. Pub. Price:
29.95.
- __________. Helping People to Forgive. Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox, 1996. 180 pages. ISBN: 0664256864. Pub. Price: 29.95.
- Fisher, Roger, and William Ury. Getting to Yes. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1981. 200 pages. ISBN: 9780140157352. Pub. Price: 16.00.
- __________. Getting Together. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1988. 216
pages: ISBN: 9780140126389. Pub. Price: 15.00.
- Hocker, Joyce, and William Wilmot. Interpersonal Conflict. Dubuque:
William Braun, 1978. 182 pages. ISBN: 970697041210. Pub. Price: 77.94.
- Lester, Andrew. The Angry Christian. Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox. 2003. 308 pages. ISBN: 9760669225193. Pub. Price: 29.95.
- [Note possibility of Course Reader needed.]
RECOMMENDED READING:
- Halverstadt, Hugh. Managing Church Conflict. Louisville:
Westminster John Knox Press, 1991. 223 pages. ISBN: 9780585273709. Pub. Price:
19.95.
- Katz, Neil, and John Lawyer. Communication and Conflict Resolution
Skills. Dubuque: Kendall, 1985. 164 pages. ISBN: 9780840337108. Pub. Price
30.98.
- Lederach, John Paul. The Moral Imagination. New York: Oxford
University. 2005 200 pages. ISBN: 9780195174540. Pub. Price: 39.99.
- Shrock-Shenk, Carolyn. Mediation and Facilitation Manual. Akron, PA:
Mennonite Conciliation Service, 1995. 322 pages. ISBN: 9780964200302. Pub.
Price: 30.00.
- Tavris, Carol. Anger. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1983. 302
pages: 9780671250982. Pub. Price: 14.95.
ASSIGNMENTS AND ASSESSMENT: Two written projects will be required, due in the
fifth and eleventh weeks. These are (1) a personal anxiety/anger management
study and conflict style analysis; and (2) a case study of a conflict with
analysis. Details in syllabus.
PREREQUISITES: None. However, this is an advanced course recommended for students who have
completed 96 units.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM: Elective.
FINAL EXAMINATION: The final case study functions as the exam.
This ECD is a reliable guide to the course design but is subject to modification. (Revised August 23, 2010)