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SWK 247: Violence And Community:
A Social Work Perspective
3 credits
This course focuses on the nature of violence, its impact on individuals, families, and communities and the consequences of violent acts and issues related to trauma across the U.S. and abroad. Students learn about child abuse, drug trafficking, community and domestic violence, and violence from natural disasters, genocide and war.
Learning Goals
1. Be familiar with the impacts of violence on individuals, groups, and cultures;2. Explore the complex connections between oppression, violence, and justice;3. Examine trauma as a social construction and its relationship to violence;4. Explore the constructs of interpersonal violence, oppression, and trauma as social problems;5. Gain a working knowledge of national and international responses to the social problems of interpersonal and community violence; and,6. Recognize cultural factors that affect perspectives on personal and political violence, including controversies in the field.
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