IH 0951 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Lapis Lazuli, Trauma Trigger, Shamhat

• School: Temple University
• Department: Intellectual Heritage
• Course: IH 0951
• Professor: Jordan Shapiro

Document Summary

Letter from university of chicago sent to incoming class of 2020 - we do not support. Trigger warnings," we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual safe spaces" . New political correctness - whether greater sensitivity to students" concerns about mental health and racial and gender equality has turned into a threat to academic freedom and open debate. Triggering will make professors less likely to teach sensitive material and render students too fragile to deal with the real world. Counter-argument: college students are expected to act like adults, while being supervised like children. **avoiding triggers is not a healthy coping mechanism for people with ptsd, it is a symptom of it. Triggering - a signi cantly mood-altering experience of anxiety. Students started to request trigger warnings around 2007 - about 20% of women experience sexual assault on campus.