Crafting Effective Solutions to Gun Violence: Problem Solving Seminar

3 Credits.

Provides a foundation of data, theory and perspectives on understanding gun violence within the United States. Students apply common public health methods for assessing risk and protective factors for multiple forms of gun violence at many levels (individual, family, community), assessing available evidence on prevention options, and determining how to enhance population-level success. Provides an understanding of the legal, political, and institutional constraints and opportunities for enacting policies to curb gun violence. Opportunities to develop plans to prevent gun violence with examples dealing with urban gun violence, domestic violence, and situations in which someone is threatening to commit an act of gun violence (e.g., school or workplace shooting) and develop creative public health alternatives to current approaches to gun violence that promote equity and justice as well as safety will be available.