LAP 610 Approaches to Social Problems: Community Prevention

In this course, students explore the overlapping nature and complexity of social problems. They examine social problems, both domestic and international, from a community psychology perspective. Students create a prevention proposal for a social issue based on their knowledge and insight of 1) the mutual influence of social issues, 2) existing research, 3) current practice, 4) cultural context, and 5) the belonging perspective. Additionally, students defend their choice of positioning their prevention proposal in the micro-, meso-, exo-, and/or macro-system levels as well as in the primary, secondary and tertiary levels of prevention. Pre-requisite(s): None. Co-requisite(s): None. 3 semester hours