Majoring in Domestic Violence

Colleges offer graduate programs that ready students to end violence against women

Majoring in Domestic Violence:
Higher education is meant to churn out well-rounded scholars.

UC Denver’s program is not the only one preparing a future generation of advocates. Within the social work field of study, the following universities are just a few that offer degrees in domestic violence:

Rutgers University in New Jersey and Simmons College in Boston both offer a Violence Against Women and Children Certificate Program.
The University of Central Florida offers a graduate track program in domestic violence.
The University of Minnesota offers a family violence prevention undergraduate minor.

But there are myriad other programs available for law and healthcare students as well—Tulane University Law School offers a domestic violence clinic while multiple colleges offer forensic nursing programs, enabling nurses to specialize in caring for victims of assault, rape, neglect and abuse.

https://www.domesticshelters.org/domestic-violence-articles-information/majoring-in-domestic-violence#.WjRPlqSosdV

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