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Family Violence Prevention Minor

School of Social Work
College of Education and Human Development
  • Program Type: Undergraduate free-standing minor
  • Requirements for this program are current for Fall 2015
  • Required credits in this minor: 15
The family violence prevention minor is a 15-credit undergraduate program for students interested in strengthening their educational experience with a research base and a set of practical skills in family violence prevention. It is an intensive, interdisciplinary learning experience for students in all fields of study. Courses are in fields related to social services, education, health care, and other direct services addressing issues related to child abuse and neglect, adult domestic violence, elder abuse, and intergenerational abuse. Students learn theories and research related to violent behavior, examine relationships between violence in society and violence within families, and explore different professional responses to violence. Elective courses provide the opportunity to integrate these concepts into further study within a major or in other fields of interest.
Program Delivery
This program is available:
  • via classroom (the majority of instruction is face-to-face)
Minor Requirements
Minor Courses
SW 3701 - Introduction to Child Maltreatment: Intervention and Prevention (3.0 cr)
SW 3702 - Introduction to Adult Intimate Partner Violence: Intervention and Prevention (3.0 cr)
SW 3703 - Gender Violence in Global Perspective (3.0 cr)
Take 6 or more credit(s) from the following:
· CAPY 5623 {Inactive} (1.0 cr)
· CSPH 5211 {Inactive} (2.0-3.0 cr)
· FSOS 1101 - Intimate Relationships [SOCS] (4.0 cr)
· FSOS 3104 {Inactive} [SOCS, GP] (3.0 cr)
· FSOS 3426 - Alcohol and Drugs: Families and Culture (3.0 cr)
· GWSS 3415 - Feminist Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
· JWST 3521W {Inactive} [WI] (3.0 cr)
· SOC 3101 - Sociological Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System [CIV] (3.0 cr)
· SOC 3102 - Criminal Behavior and Social Control (3.0 cr)
· SOC 3501 - Sociology of Families [SOCS, DSJ] (3.0 cr)
· SOC 4109 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
· SOC 4461 - Sociology of Ethnic and Racial Conflict [DSJ] (3.0 cr)
· YOST 5322 - Work With Youth: Families (2.0 cr)
· AFRO 3072 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
or AFRO 5072 {Inactive} (3.0 cr)
 
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SW 3701 - Introduction to Child Maltreatment: Intervention and Prevention
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Child abuse/neglect as form of family violence. Prevalence, scope, dynamics, responses, and prevention strategies. Individual, familial, and community analyses using ecological perspective and risk/resilience framework.
SW 3702 - Introduction to Adult Intimate Partner Violence: Intervention and Prevention
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Theories, research, intervention, and prevention strategies regarding violence against women and the abuse of vulnerable adults in the United States. Issues of gender, race, culture, age, physical ability, SES, and sexual orientation. Includes service learning.
SW 3703 - Gender Violence in Global Perspective
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Theories/research on violence in intimate domestic relationships examined through multiple lenses. Overview of interventions in Minnesota, United States, and other societies.
FSOS 1101 - Intimate Relationships (SOCS)
Credits: 4.0 [max 4.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
Couple dynamics. Overview of how to develop, maintain, and terminate an intimate relationship. Communication, conflict resolution, power, roles. Programs for marriage preparation, marriage enrichment, and marital therapy.
FSOS 3426 - Alcohol and Drugs: Families and Culture
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: FSoS 3426/FSOS 5426
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Psychology/sociology of drug use/abuse. Life-span, epidemiological, familial, cultural data regarding use. Fundamentals of licit/illicit drug use behavior. Variables of gender, ethnicity, social class, sexuality, sexual orientation, disability.
GWSS 3415 - Feminist Perspectives on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F only
Typically offered: Every Fall
History of and contemporary thinking about public policies and legal remedies directed toward domestic violence and sexual assault. How notions of public/private spheres and social constructions of gender roles, agency, and bodies contribute to attitudes/responses.
SOC 3101 - Sociological Perspectives on the Criminal Justice System (CIV)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: Soc 3101/Soc 3101H
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
This course introduces students to a sociological account of the U.S. criminal justice system. We will critically examine the components, dynamics, and effects of policing, criminal courts, community supervision, jails, and prisons. Throughout the course, we focus on sociological understandings of these processes, with particular attention to ethnic, racial, class, and gender inequalities as well as long-term problems associated with the high rate of criminal justice supervision in the U.S. prereq: [SOC 1001] recommended, Sociology majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 3102 - Criminal Behavior and Social Control
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Typically offered: Every Fall & Spring
This course will address the social and legal origins of crime and crime control with a focus on general theories of deviance/crime and present an overview of forms of social control. We will critically examine criminological, sociological and legal theories that explain the causes of crime and other misdeeds. prereq: Soc majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 3501 - Sociology of Families (SOCS, DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Fall Odd, Spring Even Year
Family has long been a significant experience in human societies; much of what we understand ourselves to be, arises in family life. But family also varies widely in composition across time and place. We will learn how sociologists study and understand families theoretically, as social institutions, as well as sites and sources of social problems. prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
SOC 4461 - Sociology of Ethnic and Racial Conflict (DSJ)
Credits: 3.0 [max 3.0]
Course Equivalencies: GloS 4461/Soc 4461
Grading Basis: A-F or Aud
Typically offered: Periodic Fall
"I can't breathe." The last words of George Floyd. Words that traumatized a nation, and the world. While the death of George Floyd galvanized peoples worldwide to speak out against discrimination and inequality, well before his death studies suggested that ethnic and racial discrimination and conflict re-occur on an ongoing basis. From the events of the Holocaust - to the genocide against the Rohingya in Myanmar - to the torture of Uighurs in China - to the Atlantic slave trade - we explore how identities are formed - and thereafter - how those same identities are deployed - to exclude and marginalize - with targeted precision. Across the world, we examine how racial bias and racial animus contribute to slavery, torture, mass displacement, economic destitution, and genocide. prereq: 1001 recommended; soc majors/minors must register A-F
YOST 5322 - Work With Youth: Families
Credits: 2.0 [max 2.0]
Course Equivalencies: YoSt 4322/YoSt 5322
Typically offered: Every Fall, Spring & Summer
Theories and techniques of working with youth and their families. Practical methods of structural change. Developing effective communication. Decision-making and problem-solving systems. Winning the family's cooperation. Role of professional in influencing healthy family development. prereq: 1001 or 2002W or instr consent