employ to analyze, influence policy and leverage conflicts for organizational outcomes. Students will learn intervention approaches for mediation of conflicts between individuals, teams and handing of difficult people and situations. Students also gain negotiation skills to facilitate decision-making and problem solving. AEC1131 H Special Topics in Adult Education: Aboriginal Knowledge: Implications for Education The focus of this course is on Aboriginal/Indigenous thoughts and worldviews and how Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal educators, administrators, and facilitators may use the knowledge in their own work. This course is adapted from an earlier version and will continue to explore culturally appropriate and culturally based Aboriginal education. Participants will engage in the discourse of self-determination of Aboriginal people through elders' wisdom, traditional knowledge and teachings. Growing from the nature of the topics, readings and modes of class instruction, a learning community will be developed towards an authentic appreciation of the values, heritage, diversity, politics and sensations that Aboriginal people bring to our lives and experiences. AEC1131 H Special Topics in Adult Education: The Pedagogy of Food Following the lead of American essayist Wendell Berry, who has argued that eating is an agricultural act, this course will focus on the idea that eating is also a pedagogical act. What do we learn, and unlearn, from the food we eat? How is the food on our plate connected to such issues as food systems, food politics, food justice, food security, food sovereignty and food movements? Can we consume our way into a more sustainable future, or does this