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| Semester: | Spring 2021 |
| Number: | 0404-247-050 |
| Instructor: | Maria Cuadra |
| Days: | Wednesday 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm |
| Note: | Online, Synchronous |
| Location: | Online |
| Credits: | 3 |
| Notes: |
For majors and non-majors |
| Course Materials: | View Text Books |
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Cristino Chavez for
Spring 2022* |
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| Description: |
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. *The learning goals displayed here are those for one section of this course as offered in a recent semester, and are provided for the purpose of information only. The exact learning goals for each course section in a specific semester will be stated on the syllabus distributed at the start of the semester, and may differ in wording and emphasis from those shown here. |
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