Friday, March 30, 2012: 10:20 AM-10:40 AM
Yerba Buena Salon 7 (San Francisco Marriott Marquis)
Presentation Format:
Poster
Learning Objectives:
- Describe course as innovative format to analyze domestic violence impact on women's/family health on global, national and local levels.
- Illustrate how health and domestic violence issues are examined using a service learning model.
Through the ongoing partnership with a local sexual assault assistance program and a woman's college senior level interdisciplinary general education course (WORLD 420),students work collaborative with the program to address and work toward authentic and viable solutions to effect community change. A service learning model brings global human rights issues home for students and enables them to see their role as agents of change and activism.