Fall 2017 Semester

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ERM 645

ERM 645 | Culturally Responsive Approaches to Research

This course has led me to reconsider my own understanding of culture and how my own cultural positionality influences the type of scholarship that I engage in. The course offered an overview of cultural studies and provided research literature examining diverse modalities of researching/evaluating with a sensitivity to culture. I learned about feminist research paradigms and how different cultures construct their own epistemologies.

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PCS 610

PCS 610 | Conflict Transformation: Reconciliation and Healing

This Peace and Conflict Studies Class led me to reflect on how the concepts of reconciliation and healing can transform and reframe various kinds of conflict--from personal conflict to global conflict influenced by governmental systems. The non-Western focus of the course helped me reconceptualize the differences between forgiveness and reconciliation and how these ideas remain pertinent to LGBTQIA+ persons.

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HEA 665

Violence and Public Health

HEA 665 | Violence and Public Health

This Public Health Course prompted me to comprehend a variety of different societal issues in ways that centered concepts of gender and sexuality. I explored instances of violence in society and traced how an understanding of these social issues can be impacted by a sensitivity to sexuality and gender. I focused heavily on LGBTQIA+ populations and how religion corresponds to violence enacted against this demographic.