Course Name

SEMINAR ON GENDER AND VIOLENCE　

URL

https://ceiba.ntu.edu.tw/932GBViolence/　

Course Description

The course of gender-based violence ( GBV )will discuss three major issues
relevant to violence against women: domestic violence, sexual assault, and
others such as dating violence and sexual harrasment. THe course is
construcated under the framework as follows:
1. Policy and law-making
2. Values or assumpations and theories
3. Intervention programs
4. Service delivery system
 

Course Objectives

The course is directed to achieve the following objectives:
1. to understand the concept of gender-based violence
2. to know the prevalence of GBV and its comparision of international data
3. to establish the theoretical framework in undestanding and analyzing the
violencce against women
4. to encourage student to develop the ablility of intervention program design
and program evalution
5. to assist student to understand the risk factor of GBV and its context in
the environment
6. to help student to know the victim's sufferings and PTSD after their
encountering of violence
7. to help student to know famous model of working with survivors or victims
8. to explore the batters' treatment programs and their assumption for
implementation.
8. th evaluate the service delivery structure for helping both victims and
perpatrators in Taiwanand other countries
9. to understand the future change of polcy, programs, and services of GBV
10. to understand the ethics and privacy rules of reserach while taking GBA
cases as smaples 

Course Requirements

See the following:
1. short essays 20% :
Two essays with 3000 words are required to show your learning in certain area
such as domestic violence , sexual assault , sexual harrasmenr , dating
violence......
2. project 20% :
current programs and policy regarding gender-based violence in Taiwan. Students
are requested to visit servive delivery agencies and discuss issues with
professionals in practice
3. participation and discussion 20% :
Attentive participation and discussion in the classes are required. Every
student needs to prepare and submmit outlines of articles scheduled in course
for presentation at least two times
4. 報告 40% :
Students select a womnen's issue as the topiic for final paper, based on gender-
based violence view....
 

References

Please refer to each session and the main textbooks include :
1.Greig, A; Sikoska, T., Bucher, T.J.and Ash de Pou (2002). Partner in change:
Working with men to end gender-based violence. UN International Research and
Training Institute for the Advancement of Women.
2.成第(2005).終結婚姻暴力:加害人處遇與諮商. 臺北:心理出版社
3.Schneider, E. M. (2000). Battered women & Feminist Lawmaking. Yale
UniversityPress
4. Bart, P. B. & Morran, E. G. (1993)(eds). Violence against Women. London:
Sage Publication
5. Ptacek, J. (1999) Battered women in the courtroom. Boston: Northeastern
University Press.
6. Mills, L. (2003). Insult to Injury:Rethinking Our Responses to Intimate
Abuse). 黃煜文 (譯)(2004).錯的是我們 不是我. 台北:商周出版
7.林明傑、黃志中(2003)。他們怎麼了? 家庭暴力加害人的評估與輔導 。 濤石文化公司
 

Evaluation

Week

Topic

1

Introduction: 1. Course analysis 2. Main theme analysis of this class  

2

Policy and law-making 1. Major laws relevant to GBV 2. Violence Against Women Act --USA  

3

Domestic Violence (1): Prevalence, gender and its implication  

4

Domestic violence (2): Theory and perspectives in illustrating causes  

5

Domestic violence (3): Treatment models and program for victims  

6

Domestic violences (4): Treatment models and programs for batters  

7

Holiday  

8

GBV : Sevice delivery mechanism (Visiting and field observing)  

9

Trafficking(1): Macro persectives  

10

Trafficking (2): Micro perspectives  

11

Sexual harrassment (1): Law, Act and Guidelines  

12

Sexual harrasment (2): TReament and programs  

13

Sexual Assault (1): Estimates and consequences  

14

Sexual Assault (2): (Risk) Factors associated  

15

Dating violence : Prevention and its relevant programs  

16

paper presentation  

17

paper presentation