This course provides an examination of child maltreatment from a variety of perspectives, including theoretical, cultural, historical, and legal. It offers definitions of the types of child abuse and neglect, and allows students to reflect on how culture and history play roles in the defining process. Students learn to identify signs and symptoms resulting from maltreatment, and take an in-depth look at how trauma affects all areas of child development. The roles of child protection workers, the complex child protection system, and the legal systems are explained. Students have the opportunity to critically review current research and debate emotionally charged ethical issues. This course challenges students to consider the dynamics that may lead people to harm children and connect the development of prevention strategies to these variables.

This course provides a basis for analyzing alternatives in the relationships between men and women by looking at the roles women play in widely different societies; for example, in peasant, socialist, and capitalist industrial societies. The range of women's and men's roles in a variety of cultures is explored.

Conducted in Spanish. Development of listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing skills, as well as cultural awareness of the Hispanic world. Cannot be taken separately without permission of the instructor. SPAN 401-402 taken together satisfy the foreign language requirement.

Conducted in Spanish. Further development of reading, writing, speaking, and listening skills. Development of intercultural awareness through discussion and short papers in Spanish based on authentic texts from the Hispanic world. Counts toward the major and the minor in Spanish. Satisfies the Foreign Language Requirement.