Supports the professional and personal development of UG students in the UTEAM program. Must be completed concurrently with the first semester of providing UTEAM support to a specific course. UTEAM members are dedicated student learners who provide peer education support for specific course as part of the teaching team and emphasizes: 1) introduction to teaching, learning, literature and practice, 2) collaboration with other UTEAM members, faculty and staff as a learning community, and 3) reflection on the knowledge and skills developed through course participation.

Racial trauma, also referred to as race-based traumatic stress, refers to the accumulated psychological and emotional injuries experienced as a result of intergenerational and systemic racism and racial bias. This interdisciplinary course will draw from scholarship on the psychology of race and racism, racism as a public health crisis, emotional justice, education for racial justice, as well as anti-racist education for social, cultural, and political change. The scholarship used in the course, which is grounded in lived experience, will also point us in the direction of resistance, healing, and cultivating joy especially in our current racial context. Students from across all fields are welcomed and encouraged to enroll and this course is ideal for students of all racial backgrounds who have engaged in some academic, personal, and/or professional work related to race/racial justice. This course will give space for learners to engage in how racial trauma has impacted their own and others' lives, now and across generations, and what potential paths towards collective resistance, healing, and wellbeing look like. Grounded in some of the latest work related to defining and exploring racial trauma and racial healing, including how people of all racial categories have been traumatized by the racialized violence and dehumanization of People of Color, this course will focus on understanding racial trauma and building new paths forward for us all.