July 8, 2020
Fall undergraduate course to delve into the impacts of violence
The Population Health Initiative is offering a new General Studies course, “Violence: Approaches to Response and Prevention,” during fall quarter 2020. This is a one-credit, credit/no-credit seminar-style course for undergraduate students, and has been developed in collaboration with the UW’s Harborview Injury Prevention & Research Center.
Violence has been a constant throughout human history, resulting in enormous suffering and broader negative societal consequences. Ongoing cases of police violence and mass shootings in the U.S. have focused attention on the fact that rates of violence in the U.S. remain high relative to those in comparable countries, and other violent acts around the world serve as a constant reminder that there are no simple solutions to this complex and multifaceted problem.
The course, GEN ST 297J (SLN 15706), will offer undergraduate students an overview of the research at the UW related to better understanding, responding to and preventing acts of violence.
The course will meet via Zoom on Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. Students will be required to attend the lectures, complete short, weekly quizzes based on the lectures and submit a two-to three page final paper to receive credit for the course.
The speakers and topics for the quarter are:
| Date | Speaker | Topic | Unit |
| 9/30 | Meher Antia Derek Fulwiler |
Course introduction Overview of violence |
Population Health Initiative |
| 10/7 | Ali Mokdad | Global burden of violence | Health Metrics Sciences, IHME |
| 10/14 | Ali Rowhani-Rahbar | Epidemiology of gun violence | Epidemiology |
| 10/21 | Mary Fan | Recording the police | Law |
| 10/28 | Bettina Shell Duncan | Female genital cutting | Anthropology |
| 11/4 | Monica Vavilala | Stop the Bleed training | Pediatrics, Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine |
| 11/11 | Holiday | No class | |
| 11/18 | Randal Beam | Media framing of suicide | Communication |
| 11/25 | Kevin Haggerty | Preventing violence in youth | Social Work |
| 12/2 | Susan Graham | Physiological responses to violence | Global Health, Allergy & Infectious Diseases |
| 12/9 | Kiana Swearingen | Violence prevention and response training | UW SafeCampus |
This course is open to all interested faculty, students, staff, alumni and members of the community, although undergraduates who wish to receive course credit must register during the course add period.