Sustainable International Development & Coexistence and Conflict - Brandeis University

Sustainable International Development & Coexistence and Conflict from Brandeis University is a Campus Master Conflict Resolution degree that prepares you for a Communications career. This dual-degree program prepares students for careers in emergency response and rehabilitation programs as well as for development work in areas of conflict . Students will build their understanding of the structural and psychosocial causes of conflict and violence and will be able to analyze strategies for interventions. They will also gain a poverty and development context for understanding and responding to conflict situations. A total of seventy semester course credits are required to complete the program. Students must complete thirty-two credits in the first year that include twenty-two credits in required courses from the Heller MA/SID program. The balance of credits are filled by electives as specified by the Heller MA/SID program with an additional four credits from the approved list of conflict and coexistence program electives. Students must also participate in the MA/SID capstone in May of their first year and are required to make a presentation related to their anticipated topic of their master's paper. In the second year, students must complete the remaining thirty-eight credits from COEX which includes eighteen credits of required courses. The other twenty credits comprise of four credits from approved COEX courses, four credits from approved courses in the MA/SID program, and the remaining twelve credits are be earned through successful completion of a field project undertaken in the summer between the first and second year and a master's paper. Preparation for the summer field project is undertaken in the prior spring semester as part of the research course. The submission deadline for the written report from the field project and the master's paper is December 1. View more details on Brandeis University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Conflict Resolution courses.