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Understanding Aggression

Understanding Aggression: Coping with Aggressive Behavior in the Classroom

The College of Extended and Global Education is proud to partner with Virtual Education Software (VESi), a leading provider of accredited online courses for educators. These online professional development courses are written by top educators and provide relevant and interactive instruction on a wide variety of subjects.

Online courses work with your schedule, allowing you to participate when it’s most convenient for you. Each course instructor is available for professional questions by e-mail or a toll-free phone number. Courses are offered for either 3 or 4.5 semester units of continuing education-level credit. Most students can complete 3-unit courses in about 30 hours and 4.5-unit courses in about 45 hours. You may register for these courses at any time during the semester however you have 16 weeks to finish the course from the time of enrollment.

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Course Description

Units: 4.5
Price: $595

EDUC 3319. This course covers the topics of violence, aggression in the classroom, youth gangs, aggression in sports and on television, how drugs and alcohol play a role, and "hot spots" that tend to breed aggression and violence. The course is designed to help teachers and other school personnel become more aware of the causes of aggression, and ways to evaluate it and intervene before it turns to violence in the schools. The course also discusses aggression in our communities through driving, dating, sports, television and musicm and how these issues are dealt with in modern society.


* Fees are subject to change