Community volunteers and social workers can use the knowledge gained to inform for instance battered women and children of their rights and help them enforce it. Also in the case of woman struggling to obtain maintenance for themselves and their children, this course can be invaluable. Especially in the case of male employers and managers, this course serves to make them sensitive to womens' needs, and fosters better understanding and cooperation in the workplace. Students who enroll for the course can expect the best that distance education has to offer, but even though this is a correspondence course, student involvement is ensured by the presentation of workshops and seminars in which the course content is elucidated. If you are interested in making this useful and instructive material your own, why not contact our course coordinator for a brochure and registration form.
Successful students receive a certificate of competence upon completion of the course.
There is so much to gain from the power of knowledge. The Gender Research Unit in Law has identified involvement in community service as one of its functions. This organisation provides support services to trauma victims. The Unit has been involved in this rapidly expanding project since the projects' inception and is actively involved in the training and counselling of volunteers who are to perform such support services. The Unit's contact person for further information is Prof Estelle Hurter, Department of Criminal and Procedural Law, Faculty of Law.