SOC WK 5615: Advanced Intimate Partner Violence

Course Description

This course focuses on a theoretical and empirical understanding of domestic violence in US society and social work practice with battered women and their families. It addresses direct services, community organizing, and public policy changes to help end violence against women. Relationships between violence against women and other forms of oppression (e.g., racism, economic exploitation, heterosexism, and social class) are explored. Students may not earn credit for bothSOC WK 4610andSOC WK 5615.