COMM 426: Conflict Management – Summer I
Starts Monday, June 1 | Fully Asynchronous | Open to All Undergraduates
COMM 426 is a practical summer elective focused on how people understand, experience, and manage conflict in professional, organizational, and interpersonal settings.
Although the course is housed in Communication, it is taught in an interdisciplinary way, drawing on ideas from psychology, communication studies, organizational behavior, leadership, negotiation, and related fields. The material is relevant for students across majors because conflict shows up in nearly every career path – in teams, workplaces, leadership roles, client relationships, collaborative projects, family systems, and everyday decision-making.
Topics include difficult conversations, workplace and team conflict, conflict escalation and perception, stress and emotional reactions, communication styles, power and trust, culture, negotiation, mediation, and conflict intervention strategies.
The course is fully asynchronous and designed to connect course concepts to real-world situations. Assessments emphasize short-answer responses to question sets rather than exams.
Students can register through Testudo. Questions can be directed to the instructor, Dr. Lauren Edelstein at lmedel@umd.edu.
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