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May 11, 2025
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HSV 276 - Social Justice and Advocacy
Course Department: Social Science
Last Date of Approval: Spring 2022
3 Credits
Total Lecture Hours: 45
Total Lab Hours: 0
Total Clinical Hours: 0
Total Work-Based Experience Hours: 0
Course Description:
The course will look at advocacy with persons and groups who are oppressed and vulnerable. The students’ attention will address social injustice, poverty, and discrimination plus victims of domestic assault. Advocacy will focus upon the development of the person and their environment for the fulfillment of basic human needs. This course will also explore diversity, advocacy, boundary issues, and ethics in the human services career. Victim advocacy will also provide the students the increased awareness of domestic violence elements and situations. The students will be able to identify the cycle of assault dynamics. This course provides the students with oppression sensitivity and helpful intervention skills to address the numerous oppressive acts and improve the quality of life. Completion of the 30 hours of victim advocacy class time will qualify students to become certified through the State of Iowa as victim counselors. 40 hours of client contact with an approved agency and 10 hours of additional training in domestic assault and/or sexual assault will meet State requirements for certified victim counselors as a foundation of their careers.
Prerequisites/Corequisites: None
Mode(s) of Instruction: traditional/face-to-face and online
Credit for Prior Learning: There are no Credit for Prior Learning opportunities for this course.
Course Fees: None
Common Course Assessment(s): None
Student Learning Outcomes and Objectives:
Outcome 1: The student will determine advocacy’s place in Human Services,
the social justice history, and foundations’ theory.
Outcome 2: The course will rank the dimensions of advocacy.
Outcome 3: The course will compare the current advocacy practices, models,
and issues.
Outcome 4: The course will produce advocacy assertiveness, knowledge, and
negotiation skills.
Outcome 5: The course analyze review current events and social problems
through the lens of social justice analysis.
Course Objectives:
Objective 1: Students will be able to name the feminism, historical context, and
the social roots of violence against women.
Objective 2: Students will be able to interpret the dynamics of domestic abuse,
including the causes and impact of victims/survivors.
Objective 3: Students will be able to explain the client self-determination.
Objective 4: Students will be able to define the impact of domestic violence and
abuse upon children.
Objective 5: Students will be able to integrate knowledgeable about the most
common state and federal laws dealing with domestic abuse.
Objective 6: Students will demonstrate advocacy skills through understanding
client coping patterns and survival, plus developing client safety plans and
healing strategies.
Objective 7: Students will compare current social problems and current events
by their understanding of social justice theories.
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