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2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

SOW 4650 - Child Maltreatment and Child Welfare

Credit(s): 3
Child Maltreatment is a course designed to enhance understanding regarding the maltreatment of children and their family dynamics (abuse and neglect) around the globe, nationally and locally, i.e., in the Tampa Bay region, and to enhance understanding of the systems that serve them. The course focuses on the role case management plays and personal as well as social and ethical responsibilities in the child welfare systems. Specifically, the course prepares students to understand the ever-changing field of child welfare as it relates to Goal 16 of the Sustainable Development Goals 2030. Students will learn to “promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development…Identify and intervene in abuse, exploitation, trafficking, and all forms of violence against and torture of children…Develop effective, accountable, and transparent intervention to address Child Welfare at all levels”.

Course Attribute(s): GCPC - Global Citizens Project Course

UN SDG(s):
  • SD10 - Reduced Inequality
  • SD16 - Peace