Identity-Based Violence Prevention

Catalog description

From interpersonal violence such as gay-bashing, sexual harassment, and hate crimes to state violence such as police brutality and unequal application of the death penalty, identity-based violence can take many forms. In this self-directed and group-based course, students are assigned one of these forms (topics vary) and then work as a group to identify, review, and synthesize the empirical and theoretical literature on that topic as well as the empirical and theoretical literature on prevention strategies. The class uses that knowledge to design and develop a prevention program of their own choosing aimed at that form of violence. Prerequisite: one of the following: RGS 100 , RGS 150 , EDS 206 , PH 200 , PSY 100 , SOC 110 , SOC 120 , SOC 150 . Offered Alternate Years.