Curriculum infusion engages the university community in prevention efforts by allowing prevention educators to work collaboratively with faculty members to design and deliver violence prevention content across the curriculum.  The process of integrating violence prevention education into many disciplines challenges students to evaluate their beliefs about violence and assess their knowledge of this issue on college campuses. 

Prevention educators have facilitated interactive discussions for incoming students in the Departments of Rhetoric and American Studies, as well as the College of Law and College of Public Health, which focus on primary prevention and increasing bystander intervention knowledge and skills.

Some other ways to infuse the topic of violence prevention into a curriculum could include:

  • Social science courses such as Sociology could investigate the perceived and actual norms to dispel myths about sexism and sex/sexual violence.
  • Psychology classes could examine individual factors that predispose an individual for victimization, perpetration, as well as the physiological response to trauma.
  • A course on the media or marketing could address the ways in which marketing campaigns perpetuate violence, as well as target college students to create brand loyalty.
  • Teacher education programs may ask student teachers to study sexual assault awareness and prevention education campaigns at the K-12 level, or in the communities where they will teach, in order to design primary prevention curriculum for the grades they will be student teaching.

If you are interested in infusing violence prevention education into your course, please contact ui-violence-prevention@uiowa.edu. 

Take a Class

The University of Iowa offers classes on numerous topics that intersect with studies on sexual misconduct, dating/domestic violence, and stalking. Students can earn credit and become more knowledgeable at the same time. 

Below are examples of potential classes:

  • SSW:3796:0001 - Family Violence
  • CRIM:4300:0001 - Gender and Violence
  • CPH:4230:0001 - Injury and Violence Prevention
  • POLI:3555:0001 -  Gender, Conflict, and Intl Relations
  • GWSS:3400:0002 - Advocacy and Engagement Colloquium
  • SOC:1022:0002 - Social Justice and Social Welfare in US
  • ANTH:2100:0AAA - Anthropology & Contemporary World Problm

To explore the most current selection of related courses, go to the Courses/Registration tab in MyUI and enter the following keywords in the Text Search field:

  • "violence"
  • "harassment"
  • "misconduct"