Evaluation of your mastery for this course will require you to write a fifteen-page paper analyzing a videotaped mediation. Your assignment will be to analyze, critique, and complement the mediator strategic choices and technique. In the paper feel free to complement and criticize the mediator in his/her general administration of the five gneric statges of a mediation. Also feel free to identify consequences and alternatives to her strategic choices. The approach should be an overview of a broad spectrum of possible mediation techniques as opposed to an in depth analysis of a few issues. Your analysis should focus on material covered in class, but an awareness of reading material is also desirable. Footnotes are not desirable. Exams earning the higher grades usually analyze all five stages of mediation taught in the STAR system.
