Issues Affecting LGBTQIAP+ Individuals and Their Families

Catalog description

Operating from a cultural humility framework, this course focuses on practice, policy, and historical and social issues impacting LGBTQIAP+ individuals and their families. This course utilizes a strengths-based perspective to identify protective factors and explore resiliency within the LGBTQIAP+ community in the face of social stigma, marginalization and oppression. The course encourages students' critical self-reflection of personal and cultural value systems and how these may impact understanding of LGBTQIAP+ populations.