Course Description

CIT 214 Woundedness, Vulnerability & Healing   3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores how woundedness and vulnerability shape human beings' individual identities, personal relationships, and sense of one's place in a community. At the same time, we will discuss if and when healing is possible, to what extent religion and spirituality plays a role in that healing, and what healing even means given the variety of ways that human beings are vulnerable and wounded throughout life. The course will be centered on open discussion with an interdisciplinary pedagogy. Our readings will draw from Scripture as well as other voices of the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, and will cover topics such as disabilities (both physical and developmental), mental health, grief, trauma, and social marginalization. Students will be expected to engage in class discussions as well as complete a variety of writing assignments. The course fulfills the Humanistic Inquiry requirement for the Liberal Arts Exploration as we will critically examine and reflect upon fundamental concerns, issues, and topics related to the human condition of woundedness and vulnerability. We will examine and discuss these topics through a variety of genres (contemporary fiction, memoir, autobiography, history, theater, etc.) through texts by writers often (although not exclusively) from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. With this pedagogy, students will engage the CIT's interdisciplinary heritage of writing and reflecting on various forms of disability, woundedness, and vulnerability.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department