Gender, Family, and Social Policy

Catalog description

Examines laws, policies, and programs that address gender and family, with a focus on diverse families, including children, youth, elders, across a range of legal and policy domains. Topics may include anti-poverty programs; domestic, interpersonal, and gender-based violence; foster care and adoption; health and reproductive health; sexuality and gender-related laws and policies; immigration; environment; and education. Explores intersectional, feminist, anti-racist, and human rights-based approaches to organizing and policy advocacy at local, state, federal, and international levels. Formerly offered as SWEL 5317.