SOSW 400 - Intimate Partner and Domestic Violence

3 Credit(s)
3 Lecture Hour(s)
0 Lab Hour(s)

This course builds upon research in the cultural theoretical perspectives of domestic and intimate partner violence at the micro, exo-, meso-, and macrosystem levels. Student learning will be centered on the cognitive-affective-ecological conceptual framework. Students will explore the various forms of abusive behavior in families belonging to four major ethnic minority communities in the United States as well as international communities. Students will look at other areas of abuse and violence as they relate to religious practices, economic marginalization, and gender. Students are required to explore their own assumptions which have caused them to express prejudices and have supported oppression; address personal issues of abuse behavior and/or domestic and intimate partner violence.