ETHS 318 Trauma and Traumascapes: Identity, Legacy, and Memory

General

• In this course, students will synthesize themes and experiences related to cross-generational trauma to understand how traumas impact and are passed on between and among generations.
• Students will apply an interdisciplinary vocabulary in order to describe and discuss intergenerational community trauma.
• Students will be knowledgeable about how places, landscapes, and traumascapes preserve memories of trauma that may be silenced through narratives and representations associated with that area.
• Students will compare and contrast trauma and systemic violence and ways of coping or non-coping by individuals and groups in multiple areas of the world through specific cultural and social vantage points.
• Students will analyze how memory plays a role in processing and coping or re-traumatizing within intergenerational and multigenerational trauma.
• Students will explain how identity, power relations, and relationships between groups are shaped by trauma.
• Students will appraise how various expressive works done by survivors of trauma, using many mediums and materials, contributes to the process of coping with trauma.
• Students will appraise how avenues for community empowerment, memory, reparations, and reconciliation are mobilized in trauma recovery work, as well as outcomes when such avenues are not pursued.