2022-2023 Academic Catalog

May 10, 2024

2022-2023 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

PSYC 288 - Coping with Collective Violence and Oppression

This course-a combined Capstone course for Psychology majors and graduate course for doctoral students in Psychology-introduces you to different theoretical frameworks that address how people cope with collective violence and oppression, communicate about and make sense of it, and transform societal suffering through civic engagement, prosocial behavior, and resistance. The course draws on community psychology, developmental psychology, clinical psychology, and social psychology, discussing relevant theories and empirical findings from each of these fields. The contexts we examine in this course include racial oppression, genocide, war, and armed conflict-with a focus on race in the U.S., but also examples from Palestine, Northern Ireland, the aftermath of the Holocaust, Islamophobia in Europe, and several Latin American countries such as Colombia, El Salvador, and Guatemala. The final project will consist of a qualitative analysis of testimonies from the Civil Rights Movement, Holocaust, Guatemalan genocide, Rwandan genocide, or the Global Feminism project.

Prerequisites for this course require a C- or better.

This course fulfills the Capstone requirement of the Psychology major.

Prerequisites: PSYC 109 and one PSYC 150-level (PSYC 150-159) and one PSYC 170-level (PSYC 170-179) and one First Seminar (PSYC 236-259)

Course Designation/Attribute: DI

Anticipated Terms Offered: Bi-annually