Intimate Partner Violence, 7.5 credits

Learning outcomes

After completing the course, the student should be able to:

• Describe and explain basic concepts and theories within the subject of intimate partner violence.
• Describe and reflect on intimate partner violence from a perpetrator's perspective.
• Describe and reflect on intimate partner violence from a victim's perspective.
• From a research as well as a practitioner perspective, analyze and suggest how strategies can be used to prevent intimate partner violence.

Content

The course aims to increase the knowledge of the extensive public health problem that intimate partner violence constitutes, on an individual, societal and structural level. The course is based on different aspects of violence where theoretical perspectives on the expression of violence is in focus. This includes violence in different forms of intimate relationships, with a gender perspective on both the perpetrator and the victim. Furthermore, the course also focuses on the societal challenges combating the violence towards women and children as protected by the Istanbul convention. Finally, the course will also highlight the societal challenges of risk management and protective actions from a rurality perspective.

Examinations and grades

Examination, 7.5 credits (Code: A001)
Grades used are Fail (F), Sufficient (E), Satisfactory (D), Good (C), Very Good (B) or Excellent (A).

According to the Higher Education Ordinance, Chapter 6, Section 18, a grade is to be awarded on the completion of a course, unless otherwise prescribed by the university. The university may determine which grading system is to be used. The grade must be determined by a teacher specifically nominated by the university (the examiner).

In accordance with university regulations on grading systems for first and second-cycle courses and study programmes (Vice-Chancellor’s decision ORU 2018/00929), one of the following grades is to be used: fail (U), pass (G) or pass with distinction (VG). For courses included in an international master’s programme (60 or 120 credits) or offered to the university’s incoming exchange students, the A to F grading scale is to be used. The vice-chancellor, or a person appointed by them, may decide on exceptions from this provision for a specific course, if there are special grounds for doing so.

The grades used on this course are Fail (F), Sufficient (E), Satisfactory (D), Good (C), Very Good (B) or Excellent (A).

Comments on grades

To obtain a passing grade for the course as a whole, a minimum of grade E is required for all components on the course. To arrive at a course grade, the grades awarded for each examination assignment, grades A-E, are first converted to the numerical values 5-1. An average value is then calculated, also taking into account the number of credits for each examination in relation to the total number of credits for the course. The course grade is thus awarded by means of a weighted average of the examination assignments included on the course.

Modes of assessment

Examination, 7.5 credits (Code: A001)
Written examination

For students with a documented disability, the university may approve applications for adapted or other modes of assessment.

For further information, see the university's local examination regulations.

Specific entry requirements

One year full-time studies in behavioural and/or social sciences.

For further information, see the university's admission regulations.

Other provisions

The course is given in English.

Exams and assignments that are handed in too late will not be graded.

Students who have been admitted to and registered on a course have the right to receive tuition and/or supervision for the duration of the time period specified for the particular course to which they were accepted (see, the university's admission regulations (in Swedish)). After that, the right to receive tuition and/or supervision expires.

Reading list and other learning resources

Required Reading

Bates, Elisabeth & Taylor Julie (2019)
Intimate partner violence: New perspectives in research and practice
Routledge, 182 pages
ISBN: 9781138049000

Articles and other material, maximum 1000 pages, will be added as mandatory literature and specified in the study guide at the beginning of the course.

Additions and comments to literature list

If there is a newer edition of the listed book/books, then the listed edition or the new edition can be used.