Health Sciences: CL:Campus Sexual Violen Prev 1

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Open to degree and PACE students; Special Topics sections cannot have CC designations

This course provides students with an in-depth examination of the dynamics, prevention of, and legal, medical, and other responses to interpersonal violence. Contemporary issues related to sexual violence, dating/intimate partner violence, and stalking will be discussed at length from both research and practical perspectives. Topics covered may include disclosure decisions; neurobiological mechanisms related to trauma and reporting; secondary victimization; understudied and important intersections of victimization, marginalized identities, and systems of oppression; prosocial behaviors; principles of effective prevention programming (e.g., levels of prevention, socioecological and whole school approaches, stages of change model, attitude change theories, etc.) and existing program evaluations; response systems and supports; social policy impacting survivors; psychological and other outcomes of victimization; perpetration risk and protective factors; relationship characteristics and consent; survivor-led collective action; and the use of new technology for social change, among others.

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to: (1) Understand the potential causes, correlates, and outcomes of sexual violence, dating/intimate partner violence, and stalking; (2) Discuss the efficacy of several approaches to interpersonal violence prevention and how they might be applied to social change efforts within different communities; (3) Identify several current issues related to informal and formal disclosures and responses to interpersonal violence; (4) Know how trauma impacts victim behavior and describe ways that this new knowledge can be applied to dispelling myths and better supporting survivors in their personal and professional lives; (5) Describe the structural, cultural, and social contexts that uphold violence and differentially impact the experiences of survivors of various identities and backgrounds; and (6) Apply knowledge and basic skillsets to prevent interpersonal violence and better support survivors in their everyday lives. Required Course Materials: Harris, J., & Linder, C. (2017). Intersections of identity and sexual violence on campus: Centering minoritized students' experiences. New York, NY: Routledge.