CSP 214 Woundedness, Vulnerability, and Healing
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 discussion-based seminars, and, through an interdisciplinary pedagogy, will cover topics such as Scripture, disabilities (both physical and developmental), mental health, and social marginalization, amongst other issues. Students will be expected to engage in discussions based on assigned readings 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, as represented by influential thinkers and writers, often (although not exclusively) from the Catholic Intellectual Tradition. In addition, this course supports the minor in Humanities and Health.
Prerequisite
CIT 201