PSY-427: Study Tour: Women Surviving Trauma and Building Peace

Examines the dynamics of trauma and resilience through service-learning working with women recovering from trauma, cultivating resilience, and building peace following the Balkan Wars. Students will explore psychological processes through the lens of psychological theories, including psychodynamic and social psychology, and analyze the impact of gender, attitudes and values in the experience of stress, trauma, coping, and resilience. Students will deepen their understanding of the attitudes, values, cultural and gender factors influencing the experience of and recovery from trauma of women through direct service and through emersion into the local cutlture. Students will reflect upon the psychological factors that contribute to resilience, conflict resolution, and peace building in the context the attitudes and values related to the culture of the region and the role of women in these processes. Fulfills an upper leve course requirement for the psychology major, and the general edcuation requirements for cross-cultural studies and gender studies. [3 credits ]