Nov 07, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog

CAAS 280 - Runaway & Homeless Youth

3 Credits

(Fall)
Elective: This course will explore reasons why children/youth runaway or end up homeless and on the streets. It is an interdisciplinary course with strong underpinning from interactionist and conflict theories. Students will examine the emotional, social, psychological and political dimensions of this growing societal problem. Special attention will be given to child sexual abuse and domestic violence issues.