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.
RELEVANCE FOR 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. All class
participants will develop in cognitive grasp of conflict theory, affective
growth in comfort with and appreciation of conflict dynamics and skill
development 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 Press, 1992.
- __________. Helping People to Forgive. Louisville: Westminster/John
Knox Press, 1996.
- Fisher, Roger and Ury, William. Getting to Yes. Boston: Houghton
Mifflin, 1981.
- Gilmore, Susan K. and Fraleigh, Patrick W. Style Profile for
Communication at Work. Eugene: Friendly Press, 1992.
- Hocker, J. and Wilmot. Interpersonal Conflict. Dubuque: William
Braun, 1978.
RECOMMENDED READING:
- Fisher, Roger and Ury, William. Getting Together. Boston:
Houghton Mifflin, 1988.
- Katz, Neil and Lawyer, John. Communication and Conflict Resolution
Skills. Dubuque: Kendall Hunt, 1985.
- Mitchell, Kenneth R. Multiple Staff Ministries. Philadelphia:
Westminster, 1988.
- Tavris, Carol. Anger. New York: Simon and Shuster, 1983.
ASSIGNMENTS:
- Three written projects, each six pages, will be required the third,
sixth, and tenth week. These are: 1) a personal anger management study; 2) a
personal conflict style analysis; and 3) a case study of a conflict with
analysis. Details in syllabus.
PREREQUISITES:
- This is an advanced course restricted to students who have
completed 96 units.
RELATIONSHIP TO CURRICULUM:
- Elective.
FINAL EXAMINATION:
- The third paper functions as the final exam, an evaluation process
will conclude the final period.