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5373. Leadership Development in Anti-Violence Work: The Susan Schechter Social Action Seminar
3.00 credits
Prerequisites: Open to students in both the MSW program and the STEP program.
Grading Basis: Graded
Collaboratively sponsored by Futures Without Violence, The Susan Schechter Leadership Development Fellowship and University of Connecticut School of Social Work, this interdisciplinary seminar will give students a structure for developing their analytic and social action abilities in the area of violence against women, children and in families. Study of the movement to end violence against these popu-lations and its connections to other social change movements, such as civil rights and GLBT rights will be examined. The leadership approach demonstrated in the course is based on the work of Susan Schechter, an academic, activist, practitioner and writer.
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