Today, it seems that trauma is everywhere. It haunts soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. It afflicts the survivors of 9/11 and witnesses to the Boston Marathon bombings. It colors the lives of victims in the rape epidemic still unfolding on college campuses. It shapes the way we talk about race after the deaths of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and Tamir Rice. It is a lens through which we look at genocides past and present. And it provides new ways to read literature, view art, and watch television and film. This course is a co-taught, interdisciplinary seminar that explores the many ways that psychological trauma manifests itself in the contemporary world. Students will use tools and techniques borrowed from a variety of fields, among them psychology, social work, literary criticism, theology, history, sociology, and gender studies. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS.