LAW5412 · Mediation B: Essential skills for practice and accreditation

Overview

This unit builds on the skills developed in LAW5411 and focuses on refining and assessing those skills. It will also develop and extend research work that is focused in the core competency areas. Students will refine their skills by participating in a range of conflict scenarios and will engage in additional ethical issue work. Students will also investigate further ethical and theoretical issues, relevant empirical studies in mediation ethics, inter-cultural contexts, contingent 3rd party interventions and issue of power and empowerment. Students will be provided with individual feedback on their style and overall performance by highly qualified practitioners. This interactive workshop has been developed to assist students to meet part of the National Mediation Accreditation Standard requirements and provides an opportunity for students to be tested and assessed in accordance with the National Mediation Accreditation Standards.

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

Learning outcomes

1. Apply advanced knowledge and understanding of the facilitative mediation model and the purpose of each stage in the process, with creativity and initiative, to new situations in professional practice.
2. Demonstrate an ability to explain the different approaches to negotiation and when each might be appropriate.
3. Investigate, analyse and reflect meaningfully on complex information and problems in relation to the facilitative mediation model.
4. Demonstrate a range of skills and techniques in communication, negotiation and mediation.
5. Use cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate and evaluate at an abstract level complex ideas and concepts relevant to the facilitative mediation model.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit typically comprises of a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study applicable to a 6 credit point unit. Learning activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning, and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.