Educational Opportunities at the
University of Michigan

Trainees in the region interested in pursuing a career/vocation in injury prevention may choose from a broad array of courses to develop their knowledge and skills.  University of Michigan’s support for injury education is vast, with significant educational and training resources. On this page you will find a listing of injury-related courses and free online learning modules.

This list is updated continually, and we will add more courses as we move forward.  Please contact us if you know of any courses we should add to the list.

Available to U-M Students

Certificate in Injury Science

In partnership with the University of Michigan School of Public Health, the University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center offers a Certificate in Injury Science for U-M graduate-level students.

Graduate Courses

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U-M School of Public Health

EHS 652: Evaluation of Chemical Hazards

Concepts and techniques related to the evaluation of occupational exposures to gases, vapors, and aerosols. Emphasis on operating mechanisms and practical aspects of industrial hygiene air-monitoring equipment, characterizing exposure distributions, and developing sampling strategies. Lectures, laboratory exercises, demonstrations, problems, technical reports, and reading. Primarily for students in occupational health and safety. Prerequisites: Previous or concurrent enrollment in biostatistics course.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

EHS 658: Physical Hazards

Lectures, discussions, demonstrations on the health effects, measurements methods, regulations, and control technologies related to physical hazards, including temperature extremes, noise, vibration, lasers, non-ionizing radiation (rf, microwave, IR, visible, and UV), and ionizing radiation. Prerequisites: Graduate Standing or Perm. Instr.

Credits: 2

Winter 2024

HBEHED 659: Introduction to Adolescent Substance Use Prevention

Students gain an overview of adolescent substance use prevention form a public health perspective. Students learn about the evidence-base on adolescent substance use prevention. They apply course content to create prevention interventions. The course examines both illicit (e.g., opiates, marijuana, methamphetamine) and licit (e.g., alcohol tobacco) substances.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

HBEHED 677: Health Impacts of Immigration Law Enforcement and Policy in the U.S.

This course draws on the social-ecological model to consider the multi-level health impacts of immigration law enforcement on individuals, families and communities; the similarities between immigration enforcement conducted by ICE and law enforcement conducted by police; and how state violence is shaped by anti-Black, -Latino, and -Arab racism. Empirical data, articles, books, and media will be used to catalyze discussion and analysis of how immigration law enforcement impacts mixed-status communities throughout the U.S. Through interactions with those who conducted and lived through law enforcement activities and the advocates and researchers who respond to enforcement, students will better understand the ways in which fear of state violence shapes health and health seeking behaviors throughout the community and contributes to racial health inequities.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

HBHE 710: Injury Prevention

Special Topic — Master’s level seminar designed to provide an extensive review of a number of substantive and methods and skill areas in health behavior and health education. Readings, discussion, and assignments are organized around issues of mutual interest to faculty and students.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

HMP 615: Introduction to Public Health Policy

This course gives introduction to the public health systems and policy issues public health systems practitioners face. Overview of public health policy interventions, theoretical motivations, influence of the political, bureaucratic, and social environments in which policy decisions are made, and population health consequences of such decisions.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

HMP 653: Law and Public Health

The purpose of this course is to examine the legal context of the relationship the individual and the community, and to understand public health regulation in the context of a market-driven system. The goals of the course are for students to understand generally: constitutional authority and limits on governmental intervention in public health (i.e., individual rights vs. society’s rights); the function of the interactions between courts, legislatures, and regulators; how law will affect students as strategic thinkers in public health positions; how to recognize legal result and communicate with attorneys; and the process of public health regulation and potential legal barriers to public health intervention strategies. Specific topics will vary, but will usually include; the nature and scope of public health authority; constitutional constraints on public health initiatives; tobacco control; youth violence; injury prevention; the spread of communicable disease; and regulating environmental risk.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

EPID 666: Health and Socioeconomic Development

Reviews links between health conditions and socioeconomic development in low-income countries and trends in health and development indicators; socio-economic determinants of health, including poverty and income, education, nutrition, fertility, and culture and behavior; impact of globalization in terms of neo-liberal policies, trade and capital flows and the urbanization and their growth of informal economy; examines the effects of health changes on economic growth and development.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

EPID 679: Epidemiology of Psychiatric and Substance Use Disorders

Introduces the epidemiology of psychiatric and substance use disorders. Addresses conceptual and methodological considerations in psychiatric research, descriptive and analytic epidemiology of common psychiatric and substance use disorders, and issues of classification and measurement for epidemiologic research. Students analyze epidemiologic data pertaining to psychiatric and substance use disorders.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

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SW 540: Trauma Basics

This course is a workshop-based inter-professional education course offered by the School of Social Work in partnership with the School of Nursing and School of Education. It is the first course in a 3-course sequence in Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP). This first course will provide basic, foundational knowledge about the cognitive, social-emotional, behavioral, and health-related outcomes of trauma in children. A key focus of the course will be on enhancing awareness of trauma in children; assessing and responding to the needs of children who encounter trauma; and changing systems to become more responsive to vulnerable children and their families. Exploration of factors known to promote resilience and well-being will be emphasized and examined throughout the course. The course will examine principles of interprofessional education, which focuses on helping students in the professions of social work, nursing, and education work collaboratively in generalist and specialty practice roles. This course is available only to Social Work, Nursing, and Education students. SW students must enroll under SW 540. Nursing students under HS 540; Education students under EDUC 540.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

SW 542: Creating and Sustaining Trauma-Informed Systems

This course will provide foundational knowledge about developing and sustaining a school or organizational culture that is trauma-informed. The course will incorporate principles of interprofessional education, which focuses on helping students in the professions work collaboratively in generalist and specialty practice roles. A primary goal of the course is to prepare students to use interprofessional and team-based strategies to achieve organizational change. A key focus will be on teachers, social workers, and nurses going beyond their practice role to collaborate on organizational work. Examples including educating colleagues, planning for a long-term project, evaluating programs, and obtaining resources to sustain collaborative models and programs to address trauma in schools. This course is available only to Social Work, Nursing, and Education students.

Credits: 1

Not offered Winter 2024

SW 601: Applied Assessment Skills in Integrated Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse

This first course will provide basic, foundational knowledge about the cognitive, social-emotional, behavioral, and health-related outcomes of trauma in children. A key focus of the course will be on enhancing awareness of trauma in children; assessing and responding to the needs of children who encounter trauma; and changing systems to become more responsive to vulnerable children and their families. Exploration of factors known to promote resilience and well-being will be emphasized and examined throughout the course. The course will examine principles of interprofessional education, which focuses on helping students in the professions of social work, nursing, and education work collaboratively in generalist and specialty practice roles.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 602: Interpersonal Practice Interventions in Integrated Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse (Adults)

The course will build on intervention therapy and practice from the foundation semester and promote more advanced intervention skill level of engagement, goal setting, use of evidence-based and informed interventions, and the termination and evaluation phases of treatment.

Particular focus will be on advanced clinical competency development regarding:

  1. Engagement and rapport building
  2. Goal-setting and problem-solving
  3. Identifying and implementing appropriate intervention approaches
  4. Termination and evaluation of treatment.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 603: Interpersonal Practice Interventions in Integrated Health, Mental Health, and Substance Abuse (Children, Youth, Transitional Youth, and Families)

This course will build on intervention approaches introduced in the essential courses and will promote more advanced engagement, assessment, intervention and evaluation skills in work with children, youth, transitional age youth, and families. Special attention will be given to issues of diversity as it relates to building therapeutic relationships and intervening with children, youth, transitional age youth, and their families.

This course focuses on advanced skill building regarding core practice interventions (e.g. engagement, contracting, problem-solving, emotional regulation, behavioral activation, cognitive restructuring, etc.) using specific brief, evidence-based and/or evidence-informed interventions including prevention, treatment and recovery as well as longer-term treatment and support for these children and youth as appropriate. Examples of practice interventions may include: behavioral/cognitive interventions, motivational interventions; resiliency based interventions, brief treatments for mental health and substance use problems, crisis intervention, parent management interventions, and group interventions. Intervention strategies will be analyzed in the context of delivering trauma-informed culturally responsive interventions.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 607: Advanced Interventions with Substance Abuse Disorders

This course targets students who elect to learn more about chemical dependency and other addictive behaviors. Course content and instructional methodologies that are used to enable students to develop knowledge and practice skills in areas of prevention and client intervention of chemical abuse and other addictive behaviors. The course uses a framework for student understanding that addresses chemical abuse and other addictive behaviors based on both theoretical and science-based prevention and intervention approaches.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 612: Mental Health and Mental Disorders of Children and Youth

This interprofessional course is for student learners in the areas of social work, nursing, pharmacy, dentistry and education. This course will present the state-of-the-art knowledge and research on mental disorders of children and youth, as well as factors that promote mental health, and prevent mental disorders and substance related problems in children and youth. Using a clinical case discussion format, this class will highlight mental health diagnoses, comorbidity, and collaboration across health professions. Social determinants of health/mental health will be used as an organizing framework for discussing the impact of factors associated with health and mental health across diverse cultures, groups and populations.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 618: Research-Informed Practices to Prevent Substance Abuse in Racial and Ethnic Minority Adolescents

This course will draw from multiple disciplines, including social work, epidemiology, public health, psychology, policy and couple and family therapy, to introduce students to theory and knowledge on substance abuse to inform social work practice with racial and ethnic minority adolescents in urban settings. This course will be guided by models, and the theoretical frameworks which inform them, that have been shown to be efficacious or effective in prevention, intervention, and rehabilitation of substance abuse in adolescents. Therefore, students will be introduced to research-informed substance abuse practices among racial and ethnic minority urban adolescents. For the purposes of this course, substance abuse will include both licit and illicit substances. Students will be asked to demonstrate the ways in which to apply research-informed theory and knowledge in practice settings with racial and ethnic minority urban adolescents.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 621: Culturally Responsive and Evidence-Informed Assessment with Children, Youth, and Families

This course is intended to develop knowledge and skills for practice with children, youth and families, with special attention to assessment. Students learn about varying approaches to assessment, the various contexts in which assessment takes place, and the assessment skills used with children, youth, and families. Students will be familiar with both strengths and limitations of assessments, and how assessments are used (e.g., in school, juvenile justice, and child welfare forensic assessment) including assessments for intervention recommendations. Students will learn how to evaluate overall functioning, conduct developmental assessments, and make a determination about child, youth and family service needs. Students will learn different models of assessment and the role of interdisciplinary assessments (e.g., medical examinations and psychological testing) in the overall assessment process. Students will also become acquainted with widely used assessment practices with children, youth and families in terms of initial screening, risk assessment, and structured decision making. Existing evidence for their utility will be explored. Students will also be sensitized to their personal reaction to child and youth demonstrations of trauma and crises. They will be appraised of professional expectations, such as mandatory reporting of child maltreatment, and will learn about the general structure of service delivery to child and youth clients. Sensitization to the roles of power and privilege of professionals as they relate to both children and their parents is an integral part of the course. In addition, the course will address the sometimes conflicting needs of children and families and child-serving systems (e.g., legal system; school) impacting assessment outcomes and recommendations. The diversity of children, youth and families, in terms of race, ethnicity, culture, class, sexual orientation, religion, ability, and other social identities will be explored. Of particular focus is the over-representation of children of color and the differential response of various child and youth serving systems based upon social identity differences. Students will gain insights about how differences between themselves and client systems affect assessment process including outcomes and recommendations. Advisory Pre-Requisite: Foundation Essentials required.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SW 624: Child Maltreatment Assessment and Treatment

This course will cover the following areas: 1) personal, professional, and societal responses to children at risk for maltreatment, 2) diversity in the child welfare population and skills for working with diverse client populations, 3) client issues and responses to child welfare intervention, including power differentials and involuntariness, 4) theories that explain child maltreatment and their social construction, 5) assessment strategies to be used with children and adults with child welfare issues, 6) interventions employed in the child welfare system and the evidence or lack thereof to support them, and 7) evidence-based treatment strategies used with traumatized children. This course will focus upon practice issues, especially poverty and parental problems in families in the United States, Canada, and Western Europe.

Credits: 1

Not offered Winter 2024

SW 627: Child Welfare System

This course will focus on the evolution and development of child protection in the United States. The goal of the course is to provide students with an understanding of how state governments think about the adequacy/appropriateness of parenting, the safety of children, when and how child protection agencies get involved with families and what the evidence says about such involvement. We will discuss the origins and implementation of major child welfare policies and we will review practice innovations and some of the most pressing challenges facing child welfare systems today. A common theme throughout the course will be the intersection of child welfare and poverty, race, gender, identity and trauma. The course will cover policies and practices from both micro and macro perspectives and students will learn how child welfare systems collaborate (or at times fail to collaborate) with other allied systems of care (e.g. community mental health, juvenile justice, substance abuse).

Credits: 1

Not offered Winter 2024

SW 659: Prevention and Interventions Strategies with Racial Microaggressions

Participants in this course will examine racial microaggressions in practice as a source of these outcomes. Participants will define and identify racial microaggressions and their impact on clients and on the professional relationship. Attention will be given to the cultural context in the way racial microaggressions are experienced and dilemmas about how to respond. The effect of power differentials on the interpretation of racial microaggressions will be examined. Using an African-centered perspective, the course will be knowledge-, skills-, and values-based.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

SW 701: Current Treatment for Trauma Survivors

Among adults seeking treatment for behavioral health concerns, including mental health and substance use disorders, the high prevalence of historical trauma and associated PTSD is increasingly well-established. The results of the significant Adverse Childhood Experiences Study only emphasize further the high cost in negative health outcomes of neglecting to identify and treat the impact of childhood traumatic experiences. But what can be done to address this important co-occurring condition that otherwise poses such a threat to physical, emotional and mental health? This training will take participants through the steps of clinical treatment sequence that includes evidence-based best practices, from engagement with understandably ambivalent clients to available, research-based group and individual treatments. Use of the most recent version of the Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Symptom Checklist (PCL-5) for client education, diagnostic assessment, treatment planning considerations, and outcome measurement will be featured. The groupwork modalities of Seeking Safety and the Trauma Recovery and Empowerment Model (TREM/M-TREM) will be presented, as well as individual therapy approaches including Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Cognitive Behavioral approaches, and Prolonged Exposure Therapy. Participants will be equipped with information, resources, and beginning skills that can lead to actionable change in the direction of improving the effectiveness of treatment for PTS/D across various service settings, from community mental health clinics, to substance use disorder treatment programs, to integrated primary care and behavioral health centers.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

SW 704: Cultural Issues in the Delivery of OUD/SUD Treatment

In this mini course, students will explore cultural issues in the assessment and treatment of Opioid Use Disorders/Substance Use Disorders. Students will examine the effect of culture on the initiation, use, and abuse of substances. Socio-cultural beliefs can shape an individual’s approach to behavior regarding substance use and abuse. A special focus will be on emerging practices that support positive outcomes for diverse cultural groups, in prevention OUD/SUD, accessing services, engaging and completing treatment programs related to OUD/SUD.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

SW 706: Neuroscience and Substance Abuse

This mini-course will provide an introduction to substance use and neuroscience in the context of social work and cover topics such as the ethical and legal aspects in neuroscience, potential alterations in brain function (e.g., cognitive) and structure (e.g., D2 dopamine receptor) linked to substance use behaviors, gene x environment interaction (e.g., neurogenetics), and the developmental and cultural aspects of neuroscience. Developing a fuller understanding of the neuroscience-related mechanisms underlying substance use behaviors is promising with respect to advancing the etiology literature, which has the potential to lead to optimally efficacious and effective social work prevention and treatment programs.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

SW 707: Services and Supports to Transgender Clients and Communities

This course will increase students’ capacity to understand the issues faced by gender diverse people and communities, including but not limited to trans and nonbinary persons across the life span, and capacity to provide gender-affirming social work support to this group.

To achieve these goals, this course will

  1. Offer a working definition of terms, including (but not limited to): Transgender, Gender Identity, Gender Expression, Gender Expansive, Gender Diverse, Intersex, Nonbinary, Cisgender, and Accomplice;
  2. Examine multiple risk factors that impact trans and gender-diverse people (e.g., mental health issues, economic insecurity, violence) from a strengths-based lens;
  3. Examine protective factors (e.g., social support, community);
  4. Consider how these experiences are differentially experienced across intersections of race, class, and disability status, among other facets of identity/experience; and,
  5. Educate students about resources for trans and gender-diverse individuals and communities and where/how to access these resources.

Of particular importance, the concept of gender affirmation will be introduced, including mechanisms for social, legal, and medical gender affirmation, with examination of the role of the Social Worker in each of these domains.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

SW 862: Categorical Data Analysis

Researchers are most commonly aware of methods that are suitable for continuous dependent variables (e.g. mental health scores), such as the use of ordinary least squares regression. However many outcomes of interest to social workers, and other social researchers, are decidedly not continuous, but are dichotomous or binary in nature: entered the program versus did not enter the program; left the program versus stayed in the program; received a particular diagnosis; did not receive a diagnosis. Many researchers are familiar with the basics of logistic regression, yet do not have a grounding in some of the intricacies of logistic regression, such as generating predicted probabilities, or using interaction terms in a categorical model, which can lead to clearer and more accurate reporting of results. Further, the basic logistic regression model serves as the foundation for a wide variety of more advanced statistical approaches that can help advance social work research. Study of the logistic regression model can lead to variations of logistic regression such as logistic regression for ordered variables, or multinomial logistic regression where are more than two categories of the outcome variable (e.g. multiple forms of family violence). An understanding of logistic regression also helps to motivate understanding of models for censored data, such as the tobit model (useful. in studies of income and wealth), along with models for count data such as the Poisson and negative binomial model suitable for studying counts of events such as incidence of disease or incidence of violence. Lastly, categorical data model serve as the foundation for event history models that are used to study the timing of events, such as the timing of program entry, program departure, or receipt of a diagnosis.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

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LAW 673: Family Law

This course will provide an overview of contemporary family law. The course will cover constitutional questions such as the state’s power over private relations, access to marriage, gender equality, and the rights of parents to raise their children. It will examine marriage, non-marital families, economic rights and obligations, intra-family violence, parenthood including adoption, surrogacy and assisted reproductive technologies, divorce, child support, child custody and visitation, child protection and foster care, dispute resolution methods, and private agreements in family law (prenuptial and separation). We will address ethical issues and the practice of family law.

The course will consider the rapid trajectory of doctrinal and cultural change in modern family law and provide a foundation for understanding and participating in the ongoing evolution of the field. The course will include several practice-based exercises throughout the semester.

Enforced Pre-Requisite: Law Professional.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

LAW 795: Crimes Against Vulnerable Communities

This course examines the use of the criminal justice system to protect some of the most vulnerable groups in American society. We will focus on legal, policy and practical issues relating to the enforcement of these laws. Areas of exploration will include hate crimes, police misconduct, human trafficking, involuntary servitude, child exploitation, and domestic violence.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

LAW 910: Child Advocacy Clinic

The Child Advocacy Law Clinic provides students with an in-depth, interdisciplinary experience in problems of child abuse and neglect and of children in foster care. The clinic represents parents in one Michigan county, children in another, and the Michigan Child Protection Agency in six counties all in specific child maltreatment and termination of parental rights cases. With close support and supervision of an interdisciplinary faculty, the law student addresses the complex legal, social, emotional, ethical, and public policy questions of when and how the state ought to intervene in family life on behalf of children. Law students will work with practicing professionals, faculty, and students from social work, psychology, pediatrics, and psychiatry. The Child Advocacy Law Clinic seeks to introduce students to their new lawyer identity, the substantive and skill demands of this new role, and the institutional framework within which lawyers operate. The Clinic especially focuses on the relationship between the lawyer and other professionals facing the same social problem. Building on the field experience of actual case handling as a basis for analysis, it seeks to make students more self-critical and reflective about various lawyering functions they must undertake. Students are asked to integrate legal theory with real human crises in the cases they handle. Students will develop habits of thought and standards of performance and learn how to learn from raw experience for their future professional growth. Students must enroll for the 4-credit clinic and the 3-credit seminar, taken concurrently. The Child Advocacy Law Clinic meets the New York Pro-Bono requirement. CALC is a 7 credit course, all credits are graded. Department Consent Required.

Enforced Pre-Requisite: Law Professional.

Credits: 4

Winter 2024

LAW 911: Child Advocacy Clinic Seminar

Students must enroll for the 4-credit clinic and the 3-credit seminar, taken concurrently. The Child Advocacy Law Clinic meets the New York Pro-Bono requirement. CALC is a 7 credit course, all credits are graded. The Clinic seminar fulfills the Law School’s professional responsibility requirement for graduation, but does not fulfill the New York State Bar ethics requirement. Department Consent Required.

Enforced Pre-Requisite: Law Professional.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

LAW 958: Pediatric Advocacy Clinic (PAC)

The Pediatric Advocacy Clinic (PAC) is one of the first medical-legal partnerships to be based in a law school setting. Through this partnership, students are able to reach families most in need of legal assistance and become part of an interdisciplinary team working to improve child health. Casework includes domestic violence and family law, special education, Medicaid appeals, and low-income housing conditions. Students in the clinic take “first chair” responsibility for their cases and are involved in all aspects of a case. They learn a range of advocacy skills, from preventive legal advocacy (focusing on identifying issues at an early stage and on developing creative, multidisciplinary approaches to addressing them) to traditional litigation skills in both administrative and trial court settings. The PAC is 7 credits (4 for the seminar and 3 for the clinic) and all credits are graded. The PAC meets the New York Pro Bono requirement.

The Clinic seminar fulfills the Law School’s professional responsibility requirement for graduation, but does not fulfill the New York State Bar ethics requirement. Department Consent Required.

Enforced Pre-Requisite: Law Professional.

Credits: 4

Winter 2024

LAW 959: Pediatric Advocacy Clinic Seminar

The PAC is 7 credits (4 for the seminar and 3 for the clinic) and all credits are graded. The PAC meets the New York Pro Bono requirement. The Clinic seminar fulfills the Law School’s professional responsibility requirement for graduation, but does not fulfill the New York State Bar ethics requirement. Department Consent Required.

Enforced Pre-Requisite: Law Professional.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

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AUTO 514 – 001/ ISD 514: Vehicle Crashworthiness and Occupant Protection

General procedures and state-of-the-art tools to evaluate vehicle crash safety, apply fundamental principles to interpret injury mechanisms, safety concerns, and design benefits in different types of crashes, and assess safety systems using finite element crash simulations.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

IOE 534/BIOMEDE 534/MFG 534: Occupational Biomechanics

Anatomical and physiological concepts are introduced to understand and predict human motor capabilities, with particular emphasis on the evaluation and design of manual activities in various occupations.

Quantitative models are developed to explain:

  1. muscle strength performance
  2. cumulative and acute musculoskeletal injury
  3. physical fatigue
  4. human motion control

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

IOE 539/MFG 539: Safety Engineering Methods

Recognition, evaluation, and control of generic safety hazards (confined spaces, electricity, fire, mechanical energy, etc.) found in contemporary workplaces, using case studies from manufacturing, transportation and power generation. Students perform an interdisciplinary team project using contemporary systems safety methods (e.g., fault tree analysis, failure modes and effects analysis, or job safety analysis) to redesign a work station or consumer product.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

IOE 837: Interprofessional Perspectives in Occupational Health and Safety

This seminar is to provide an opportunity for graduate students interested in occupational health and safety-engineering problems to become acquainted with various related contemporary research and professional activities, as presented by both staff and guest speakers.

Credits: 1

Winter 2024

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U-M School of Kinesiology

AT 511: Evaluation of Upper Extremity Injury

This course is designed to help students develop the knowledge, skills and values necessary to assess injuries to the upper extremity of athletes and others involved in physical activity. Upon completion of this course, students will be comfortable evaluating injuries that occur to the head, spine, shoulder, elbow, wrist, and hand.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

KINES 505: Topics in Disability Studies

An interdisciplinary approach to disability studies, including focus on the arts and humanities, natural and social sciences, and professional schools. Some topics include history and culture representation of disability, advocacy, health, rehabilitation, built environment, independent living, public policy. Team taught with visiting speakers. Accessible classroom with real-time captioning.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

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U-M School of Nursing

HS 695: Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Trauma: A Special Topics Course

This transdisciplinary course welcomes students from any discipline. It provides far-ranging views of core concepts for understanding and responding to mitigate adverse effects of trauma exposures on individuals, families, groups, and populations and to promote resilience, recovery, and posttraumatic growth. The over-arching goal is to acquaint students with rich perspectives on trauma across health and social sciences, humanities, and practice disciplines to inform their capacity to respond to trauma as citizens, professionals, and scholars.
Students from all U-M Schools and Colleges are welcome. Readings and assignment topics can be selected to meet program requirements. Graduate and undergraduate students meet together but complete level-appropriate assignments. No pre-requisites. Click here for more information.

Credits: 1-4

Winter 2024

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U-M School Of Public Policy

PUBPOL 717: Social Activism

Social Activism, Democracy, and Globalization from the Perspective of the Global South — How are the inherent and intersecting relations of power including inherent structures of dominance related to the experience of violence, oppression and resistance textured into the context of politics and policy making? This course investigates how multifaceted historical relationships of traumatic experience including Colonization, Slavery and Apartheid can be related to the ways in which we think about policy. This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to how the production of culture, ecology, psychology, law, economics and politics frames the sociology and historiography of the policymaking context. This course provides the opportunity for student’s to improve their analytical abilities. Whilst the material content used in this course will have a global focus local issues will also be considered. Seminar required.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

Undergraduate Courses

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PUBHLTH 414: Population Approaches to Mental Health

Overview of population mental health in the US context. Case-examples (autism, depression, substance use, etc.) will be used to illustrate social patterning, issues of nosology and measurement, and mental health treatment/services. Students will consider how social stigma impacts assessment and services for mental health conditions through readings the course project. Advisory Prerequisites: A grade of B or better in an introductory course in psychology/sociology and in an introductory quantitative science course (statistics, mathematics, physics, etc.).

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

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U-M School of Kinesiology

AT 300: Clinical Experience in Athletic Training C

This experience is designed to expose the student to experiences common to the practice of athletic training and to allow the student to demonstrate clinical proficiency in the areas of injury prevention, assessment, and management. Instructor Consent Required. Advisory Pre-Requisite: AT MAJ/SO STD.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

MOVESCI 413 – 006/KINESLGY 413-006: Special Topics in Movement Science

Topic: Surg Neuroanat & Periop Injury. New experimental course in Movement Science. Course description is available from instructor.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

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U-M School of Education

EDUC 450: Education, Peace, and Conflict

This course centers on the ways in which educational systems contribute to conflict and division, as well as to post-conflict reconstruction and stability. We will cover theories of conflict, peacebuilding, and justice frameworks. Through global case studies, we will examine the relationship between education, identity, poverty, and violence.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

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U-M School of Nursing

NURS 220: Perspectives in Women’s Health

A feminist perspective on concepts and issues in women’s individual and aggregate health. Course will include definitions of women’s health, women’s health concerns, and impact of multiple factors on health. Topics covered will range from physiology of menstruation, sexuality, violence, disability, body image, mental health, childbirth to various constructions of health and disease across the lifespan. Constructions of gender and health and their intersections of social, racial, ethnic, and political aspects will be considered.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

PNE 301: Care of the Family: Reproductive Health Clinical

The primary focus of this clinical is to provide care to women and their families within the context of the developing family. Students will care for women in the prenatal, birthing, and postpartum periods. They will care for newborns and provide safe assessments and interventions. The relationships among pregnancy, birth, families, community, and culture will be explored within the clinical context. Students will examine issues such as prenatal loss, addiction and trauma. They will provide patient and family education to maximize the health of the woman, newborn and family.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

NURS 373: Behavioral Health

This theory course focuses on the influence of biology and the environment on people’s emotions, behavior, and cognition. The emphasis is on promotion of mental health and intervention with people who are experiencing behavioral, emotional, or cognitive difficulties. It incorporates psychological, emotional, biological, social and spiritual elements, including discussion of genetics and social determinants that impact mental health and mental illness. Students will examine how behavioral health issues are related to other conditions such as medical illnesses. Topics such as addition, stigma, and suicide are addressed. Importance is on learning skills to create meaningful relationships through communications, skills that promoter healthy functioning. Students will explore how families, communities, societies, and culture impact mental health and interventions.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

HS 404: Gender Based Violence: From Theory to Action

In this course we will examine gender based violence and the skills necessary to provide advocacy services to survivors. This course will introduce students to the roots of gender based violence, the social and cultural context in which it occurs, the mental and physical health impacts, justice and restitution frameworks, and will explore approaches to changing those structures in order to reduce or end it. Students will develop the skills to think critically about the local and global impact of gender based violence, how it intersects with other forms of oppression, and to develop an understanding of these issues that will be useful intellectually, personally, and professionally.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

 

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U-M College of Literature, Science, and the Arts

AMCULT 311: American Culture and the Humanities (Section: 002 Transgender American Histories)

In 2014, Time Magazine announced “The Transgender Tipping Point” as the “next civil rights frontier.” Even as transgender celebrities including Caitlyn Jenner and Laverne Cox have drawn national audiences, bathrooms have become battlegrounds for gender justice, and trans people have been targeted by hate crimes and state violence. While trans rights may appear to be a relatively new phenomenon, even a “frontier,” transgender and gender non-conforming people and communities have a long history in American Culture.

This course seeks to explore contemporary transgender movements, politics, and identities in historical context. Throughout the course, we will be particularly attentive to the ways that race, class, citizenship, and ability are connected to gender variance, and we will highlight the scholarship and activism of trans people of color.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

ASIAN 348: Humanities Topics in Southeast Asian Studies (Section: 001 Violence and Cultural Change in Southeast Asia)

This course examines how people in Southeast Asia have responded to harm, injury, and destruction. You will learn to analyze a wide range of approaches by which different ethnicities, faiths, and political systems in the most diverse region in Asia have come to make sense of violence and peace values. Some examples include the Khmer Rouge, the Santa Cruz massacre in East Timor, and the Rohingya crisis. We will also explore how the fast-paced changes associated with national development and in the economy, which are all parts of the process of decolonization, have also led to international awareness of other forms of violence such as the displacement of indigenous peoples, the impacts of leftover war waste and industrial pollution, or the “slow violence” of large-scale infrastructures on the environment like the construction of the Mekong dams.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

HISTORY 305: American Addictions

Our subject is addiction. What is it? Why does it matter? This course explores how certain kinds of behavior (and people) have been studied, understood, and treated under the rubric of “addiction” in the United States. We will focus on how theories of addiction and its treatment have embodied different views of personhood, agency, and ethics. One aim of the course is to combine humanistic and scientific ways of thinking, including through individual and collaborative writing projects that bring past and present understandings of addictive substances and behaviors into conversation. This approach is essential to grappling with the political, philosophical, and personal consequences of how we study and stigmatize particular ways of life. Our focus on crucial texts in the history of science and medicine means that we will engage with technical material from psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, while our approach to this work will draw on methods from across the humanities. Given recent and ongoing events surrounding opioid use and dependency as well as the intersections of race, gender, and class with addiction and its treatment, we will consistently return to the uses of history in the present.

Credits: 4

Winter 2024

HISTORY 366: Crime and Drugs in Modern America

This course explores the various government wars on crime and drugs in the United States during the twentieth century, from alcohol prohibition through the crack cocaine and opioid “epidemics,” from anti-vice crusades in the Progressive Era through the recent rise of mass incarceration under what critics label the American prison-industrial complex.

Credits: 4

Not offered Winter 2024

HISTORY 491: Topics in History (Section: 011 Cold Cases: Police Violence, Crime, and Social Justice in Michigan)

This research seminar is a HistoryLab course that will investigate unsolved or un-prosecuted cases of racial violence and police misconduct in the city of Detroit during the 20th Century. Members of the seminar will work in teams, conduct archival and database research, interview historical participants, and collaborate in creating website exhibits and other online publications that combine historical narratives with documents, images, and interactive maps. This seminar will be the third project of the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab, a component of the UM Carceral State Project and a multiyear initiative to research the history of policing and criminalization in Detroit and to provide a comprehensive accounting of homicides by law enforcement. Student teams will investigate topics that range from the extraordinary violence of the 1920s era of Prohibition of alcohol to the wave of deadly force in the 1990s that resulted in federal oversight of the Detroit Police Department. This lab/seminar will take students off campus, including multiple research trips to Detroit, and produce investigative reports designed to contribute historical knowledge to current debates over policing and crime, racial and social justice, and mass incarceration in modern America. “Cold Cases” is a pilot project of the UM HistoryLabs program, established in 2018 by the History Department to promote public engagement through student-faculty research collaborations and to enhance career skills through applied research, digital technologies, and multimedia publishing platforms. Learn more and view previous research publications at the Policing and Social Justice HistoryLab website.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

INTLSTD 401 – International Studies Advanced Seminar (Section 006 -Political Violence in Africa)

This course is an advanced seminar designed to bring an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of a topic of international significance.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

PHIL 355: Contemporary Moral Problems

The purpose of this course is to explore the moral issues confronting us in our daily lives and in our special disciplines. The topics discussed may include abortion, sex and sexual perversion, drugs, death and suicide, civil disobedience, punishment, pacifism, war, problems in medical ethics (eugenics, euthanasia, sanctity of life, organ transplants, defining death), environmental ethics, and the ethics of scientific research.

Credits: 4

Winter 2024

POLSCI 489 Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science (Section: 013 Political Violence in Africa)

This seminar is designed to introduce students to the study of political violence in Africa. The course specifically examines domestic or intra-state manifestations of violence through a variety of theoretical and empirical approaches. Over the course of the semester, we will see that violence is not something endemic to the continent; instead, we will investigate violence as the outcome of political and economic conditions and processes. To do so, we will consider specific events in African countries while also using social science concepts and methods to examine and explain broad patterns across the continent. In conducting this exploration, we will primarily rely on and build upon the work of political scientists, but will also draw on the contributions of journalists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists, and historians.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

POLSCI 489 Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science (Section: 008 Politics of Criminal Violence)

A senior level course taught by faculty on advanced topics in political science.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

POLSCI 489 Advanced Topics in Contemporary Political Science (Section: 005 Police Violence)

Within the last 10 years or so and especially in the last year it seems that police violence in the United States has become a huge problem. Is this the case, why is this the case, and what (if anything) can be done about it? This class is directed toward investigating these questions by viewing the topic both deeply as well as comparatively. We will consider a broad array of theoretical arguments as well as consider evidence from not just the US but across the globe. The class will involve some unique use of a newly available data source on police violence around the world from 1976 to 2016.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

PSYCH 120: First Year Seminar in Psychology (Section: 004 The Psychology of Violence)

This freshman seminar is focused on the study of violence. Using readings, lectures, clinical case presentations, films, and class discussions, we cover the range of psychological theories that can account for violence across the lifespan. The course begins with a discussion of a range of violence events and definitions of violence victimization and violence perpetration. Theoretical frameworks and models useful for understanding violence are introduced, including developmental psychopathology, cognitive development, neuropsychology, bio-behavioral theory, and intergenerational systems theory. Following the developmental psychopathology model, research on relevant risk and protective factors associated with violence is also presented. In addition, the evidence for best intervention practices in treating violence victims is examined.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

PSYCH 321: American Addictions

Our subject is addiction. What is it? Why does it matter? This course explores how certain kinds of behavior (and people) have been studied, understood, and treated under the rubric of “addiction” in the United States. We will focus on how theories of addiction and its treatment have embodied different views of personhood, agency, and ethics. One aim of the course is to combine humanistic and scientific ways of thinking, including through individual and collaborative writing projects that bring past and present understandings of addictive substances and behaviors into conversation. This approach is essential to grappling with the political, philosophical, and personal consequences of how we study and stigmatize particular ways of life. Our focus on crucial texts in the history of science and medicine means that we will engage with technical material from psychology, psychiatry, and neuroscience, while our approach to this work will draw on methods from across the humanities. Given recent and ongoing events surrounding opioid use and dependency as well as the intersections of race, gender, and class with addiction and its treatment, we will consistently return to the uses of history in the present.

Credits: 4

Not offered Winter 2024

PSYCH 370: Topics in Clinical Psychology (Section: 002 Advanced Topics in Sexual and Gender Minority Mental Health)

This course covers the history, theory, and research important for understanding sexual and gender minority (SGM) mental health and mental health challenges. The course will consist of a critical dive into the ways in which understanding of SGM mental health has changed over time.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

PSYCH 477: Inside the Criminal Mind (Section: 001 Neural, Genetic, and Environmental Contributions to Psychopathy, Violence, and Aggression across the Lifespan)

This course explores the development and manifestation of antisocial behavior including psychopathy, aggression, and violence. At its core, this course examines what increases the risk that children will develop behavior problems and go onto to more chronic and extreme forms of violence and psychopathic personality that results in harm to others. We will examine psychiatric diagnoses associated with these antisocial behaviors in both childhood and adulthood and how they link to other relevant behaviors (e.g., substance use, ADHD). We will explore research elucidating the neural correlates of these behaviors, potential genetic mechanisms underlying these behaviors, and the environments that increase risk for these behaviors. Thus, there will be a focus on neurobiology and genetics approaches to psychiatric outcomes, as well as a social science approach to understanding these harmful behaviors, all while considering development across time. We will also consider ethical and moral implications of this research.

Credits: 3

Not offered Winter 2024

SOC 105: First Year Seminar in Sociology (Section: 002 Gender-Based Violence)

This course will examine gender-based violence from a sociological perspective. How does our society define violence? What are the social and political dynamics that allow gender-based violence to occur? How do we respond to victims, to perpetrators, to communities? We will pay particular attention to power relations in this course – related to gender, race/ethnicity, class, sexuality, disability, gender presentation, and nationality – asking how social inequalities contribute to intimate violence. Throughout the course, we will also analyze collective resistance to violence, including social movements and campus activism. We will use various texts, including social and political theory, ethnography, memoir, legal documents, artwork, online activism, and film. Topics will include intimate partner violence, sexual assault and rape, forced sterilization, gaslighting, sexual harassment, and violence against LGBQ and trans people.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

SOC 208: Terrorism, Torture, and Violence

Terrorism, Torture, and Violence — This course analyzes contemporary trajectories of violence in three parts, starting with the analysis of terrorism, continuing with torture and ending with campus sexual assault. It thus traces violence from the macro to the micro level.

Credits: 4

Winter 2024

SOC 347: Drugs and Society

The use of intoxicants is widespread across time and context, and has been found in every known society. This course will explore the relationship between drugs, alcohol, and social systems using a sociological perspective, including micro, meso, and macro levels of analysis. Throughout the semester, we will explore social constructions of drug and alcohol use, medicalization of addiction and treatment, and the history of drugs and the U.S. criminal justice system. We will wrap up the course by looking at some of the recent changes to drug policies in Michigan and Ann Arbor, including the decriminalization of psychedelics and legalization of recreational marijuana.

Credits: 4

Not offered Winter 2024

WGS 213: Topics in Gender and the Humanities (Section: 001 War, Gender, Masculinity, Violence)

This course explores “the puzzle of gendered war roles” by introducing concepts such as: combat masculinities, women and/in war, biology and combat, heroines and heroes, war and rape, warfare and civilian life, and war memories, among others. We draw on legendary military conflicts taking place before the advent of modern weaponry, involving, for example, the Amazons and the samurai, as well as exemplary modern wars. We also consider the meanings of representations of wars and fighters in tales, films, anime and games, including “Princess Mononoke,” “Saving Private Ryan,” “Black Panther,” “Captain Marvel,” ”The Wings of Eagles,” and “the Combined Fleet Girls Collection (Kancolle).” Students will gain a broad perspective about warfare, and an understanding of interrelationships between war and gender.

Credits: 4

Winter 2024

WGS 220: Perspectives in Women’s Health

A feminist perspective on concepts and issues in women’s individual and aggregate health. Course will include definitions of women’s health, women’s health concerns, and impact of multiple factors on health. Topics covered will range from physiology of menstruation, sexuality, violence, disability, body image, mental health, childbirth to various constructions of health and disease across the lifespan. Constructions of gender and health and their intersections of social, racial, ethnic, and political aspects will be considered.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

WGS 322: Black Feminist Health

This course examines black women’s health, longevity, and well-being from a black feminist perspective and focuses on how the interlocking systems of racism, poverty, violence, and sexism influence the embodied health experiences of black women. We will survey black feminist and proto-feminist coping strategies of historical and contemporary health crises.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

WGS 345: Special Topics in Gender in a Global Context (Section: 001 Sexual Violence and the State)

This course examines, through a comparative, transnational, and intersectional feminist lens, the complex relationship(s) between sexual violence and the state under differing historical contexts and in diverse geographical locations. We will interrogate the colonial and the postcolonial, “first” and “third” worlds, text, and context. Tracing how gender intersects with race, religion, nation, social class, and sexuality, we will frame sexual violence as simultaneously personal and political as we critically examine the political, cultural, legal, regulatory, and discursive roles of the state. Some of the material focuses on South Asia; however, the scope of the course is historically and geographically broad. The course is interdisciplinary; we will draw from historical, literary, visual, political, sociological, and other perspectives and the productive interstices between them. We will weave together theoretical, analytical, and creative (e.g. fiction, film, art) texts. There will also be in-class case studies that we will collectively examine.

Credits: 3

Winter 2024

Summer Internship

The University of Michigan Injury Prevention Center offers paid summer internship positions for graduate, medical school, and upper-level undergraduate students to support their development and generate interest in the area of injury prevention. We invite highly qualified students AND those with appropriate placement opportunities to participate in this educational experience.

Opportunities for All Learners

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Injury Prevention Massive Open Online Course

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Impacting the Opioid Crisis: Prevention, Education, and Practice for Non-Prescribing Providers

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Intimate Partner Violence and Dating Violence

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