Negotiations

Class Purpose/Goal: LEARN TO NEGOTIATE BETTER AND TO ENJOY IT MORE

The class is designed to offer students an opportunity to increase their self-awareness and awareness of others and to learn and practice concrete negotiation skills. Students will be negotiating in class nearly every week. Students will learn to transfer theoretical understanding of negotiation skills from the classroom to address conflict and engage in negotiation in a professional, ethical and effective ways in professional and personal settings.

We will be using Getting to Yes (3rd Edition) by Roger Fisher and William Ury. Excerpts from texts other than the main book will also be used.

We will discuss specific negotiations in which members of the class may have engaged in during the course of their daily lives as well as examine current events and evaluate the effectiveness of negotiating skills of public figures.

Grades determined as follows:

60% attendance and class participation;

15% final paper;

25% final negotiation.