Subject: An innovative Distance Learning Resource:
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<< Subj: Distance doctoral program
Date: 98-10-21 17:46:29 EDT
From: yangh@nsu.acast.nova.edu (Honggang Yang)
To: dispute-res@listserv.law.cornell.edu ('dispute-
res@listserv.law.cornell.edu')
Nova Southeastern University (NSU) Launches a
Distance Doctoral Program in Dispute Resolution
The Department of Dispute Resolution at NSU is launching a new Ph.D.
program in a distance format to accommodate and meet the needs of working
adults in the fields of peacemaking and conflict resolution. The
development of distance doctoral studies is based on the solid residential
academic programs where we attract life-long learners from all over the
world who are committed to academic excellence, social responsibility, and
informed, reflective practices.
The distance Ph.D. program develops an optimal combination of innovative
learning models, teaching approaches, and interactive media so that
working adults do not have to relocate to study for their doctorate and
enhance their career development. It offers the students weeklong,
limited-residential institutes, on-line seminars, and individualized
systematic studies. This flexible format will also allow and encourage
mid-career working adults to define and shape their intellectual and
practice paths in a creative, rigorous, and structured fashion.
At NSU, students are challenged with dynamic, innovative, and holistic
approaches to learning. In the current residential graduate programs,
students' backgrounds are as varied as their geographic distribution:
community mediators and organizers, public administrators, business
managers, court personnel, trainers, teachers, therapists, social workers,
pastors, police officers, doctors, urban planners, organization
consultants, human resources professionals, social services workers,
government employees, NGO practitioners, customer service agents, resident
directors, and college professors. 36% of the students are from minority
groups and 66% of the students are female, who came from 24 states and 17
countries.
The 82-credit-hour program includes courses of theoretical foundations,
history and development of the field, research methods, practica, skill
development, and substantive topic areas in the field. The program will
admit its first group of distance doctoral students next summer in
preparation for commencement of their Ph.D. studies in September 1999.
While the department is developing distance programs for the field, it
will continue to support and enhance its residential programs (i.e.,
Graduate Certificate, M.S., and Ph.D. Programs) that are offered on
campus.
The NSU is located in the beautiful, vigorous metropolitan area of Fort
Lauderdale and is the largest independent university in Florida. For more
curriculum and admissions information about the residential and distance
graduate programs, please contact:
Department of Dispute Resolution
School of Social and Systemic Studies
Nova Southeastern University (NSU), 3301 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 33314
Phone: (954) 262-3000
FAX: (954) 262-3968
Toll Free: (800) 262-7978
E-Mail: CR@ssss.nova.edu
Website Home Page: http://www.nova.edu/ssss/DR/adr.htmls.html/smullin.htm1133.htmkd/gkd-oct98/0036
Honggang Yang, Ph.D.
Chair and Associate Professor
Department of Dispute Resolution
Nova Southeastern University (NSU), 3301 College Avenue
Fort Lauderdale, FL 3331 >>
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