The faculty for these sessions include the Antioch core faculty as well as other distinguished practitioners, researchers, and professors in the field. Students follow Core Session I residency with coursework that includes readings, assignments, and on-line discussion, allowing completion of the coursework at home. I coursework occurs in quarters one and two, and the Core Session I occurs in the second month of the first quarter. Core Session II coursework is scheduled for the sixth quarter, with the residential requirement scheduled for the second month of that quarter. Students study together, dialogue with their professor and student colleagues about the issues raised, get assignments, turn in assignments, all from wherever they happen to be in the world.
All students participate in practica, utilizing professional opportunities within their communities.
Practica are opportunities for the practice of conflict intervention skills, and once those skills are established, for professional practice in other areas of conflict studies. In addition to foundational and advanced work in mediation skills, students are ready for advanced practica work in other areas of intervention such as facilitation, negotiation, and conciliation, and in other areas of conflict resolution professional practice such as training design, dispute resolution system design or program implementation and assessment. The additional 180 hours may be in areas such as facilitation, dispute resolution system design, training design and implementation, community organizing, or collaborative processes. Demonstration of Advanced Status The final phase of the Conflict Resolution program is a capstone project designed to integrate theory, research, and application in an area of individualized interest. A program of advanced individualized study and training in specific areas of conflict processes and intervention.