Systemic & Generational Trauma

Catalog description

In this course, students will examine systemic trauma and the generational impacts on both the individual and respective communities, to include a brief examination of neurophysiological development as experienced generationally. Students will explore human responses to systemic trauma by evaluating systemic racism, colonialism, patriarchal violence, and environmental destruction. Additionally, students will evaluate representative current literature on systemic oppression and discuss the impacts of systemic and generational trauma in their own experience and that of their communities.