Advanced ADR Clinic

The Advanced Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) Clinic is a single-semester, three credit hour graded clinical course limited to 18 students. The course is co-taught by Professor Larry Spain and Adjunct Professor Gene Valentini, Director of the Lubbock County Dispute Resolution Center.

The ADR clinic provides student instruction that qualifies as the 40-hour basic mediation training course in Texas. Through classroom instruction and simulations, students will examine the issues, principles and skills necessary to the use of mediation as a method of conflict resolution. Each student will have the opportunity to observe and mediate actual disputes through the Lubbock Country Dispute Resolution Center.

Prerequisites

• Recommended prerequisite courses: Interviewing, Counseling, and Negotiation and/or Professional Responsibility
• Students must be available for training two days prior to the beginning of the semester