Course Syllabi - SOCW 475
Domestic Violence
TR: 3:00-4:15 – Robinson B105
Faculty: Katherine Prudden
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Considers the problem of interpersonal violence at all points in the life
span, from childhood to late adulthood. Course addresses a range of
theoretical, policy, cultural, special population, and practice issues involving
child abuse and neglect, non-stranger sexual assault, intimate partner violence,
sibling abuse, and elder abuse. The course is taught from ecological,
feminist and social justice perspectives, and examines the impact of interpersonal
violence on individuals, family and significant others, and the larger society.