Women’s Studies - Women's Response to Violence
Women's Response to Violence (WOST 2211)
Total Credits:
3
Lecture Credits:
3.00
Description:
This course provides an overview of violence against women and of women's creative and community-building responses to that violence. You will explore women's ways of coping with domestic violence, war, stalking, rape, homicide, sexual assault and sexual harassment.
Topical Outline:
Learning Outcomes:
1. 1. Demonstrate awareness of the variety of ways that women and communities have responded to violence against women and girls
2. 2. Demonstrate knowledge of the variety of ways that women have responded, individually and collectively, to violence of all kinds
3. 3. Demonstrate a basic understanding of feminist analyses of the causes and effects of violence, accurately utilizing relevant conceptual vocabulary
4. 4. Explain the connections among family violence, bias violence, criminal violence, state violence, institutional violence, and violence against beings deemed to be property
5. 5. Examine, articulate, and apply their own views concerning the efficacy and ethics of possible responses to violence
Prerequisites:
Placement score into READ 1300 or completion of READ 0200 or ESOL 0052.
MnTC: