Goals and objectives
This course will:
- Inform you about sexual violence and its complexities on campuses
- Help you learn how to recognize, respond to, and prevent sexual violence, to build safer, more respectful environments for everyone
Learning objectives
- Define theories and practices for social change in relation to sexual violence
- Identify key terms related to sexual violence as well as statistics, warning signs and impacts
- Describe the social-cultural factors that lead to and reinforce sexual violence
- Know what the law says about sexual violence
- Be aware of strategies for change to prevent sexual violence
Frameworks
This course has been developed with a mix of approaches to sexual violence, including:
- a human rights and anti-oppression framework
- a trauma-informed, social determinants of health lens
- a social ecological model, which has roots in Aboriginal models of social change and strong communities (Verniest, 2006)
- an understanding of shared rights and responsibilities