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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As far as I can tell, "students want trigger warnings" means roughly "students want to be advised in advance what the basic content of the course is including areas that could potentially be incredibly upsetting or harmful to someone's mental health to be confronted with unprepared."

So... students want informed consent in advance to exactly what they're getting into?

That doesn't sound like a big deal to me, nor does it seem unreasonable. From what I have seen, television shows, movies, many commercials, news programs, and most books do this already. Doesn't seem too absurd to want to know what you're getting into in order to decide if you can handle it and know of any special preparation you might need to do in order to be ABLE to handle it, especially advance of a particularly intense class session/discussion.
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I can see your point that some people may want to be forewarned.. but are course descriptions not already clear on this? As for being assigned to read certain books, I'm sure the plot is easily found with a quick Google search, so anyone who is concerned about that can easily find this information. Why should the university be doing all this work when students can do it on their own?

Real life doesn't come with trigger warnings, and those who may be triggered take steps to avoid such a situation. I imagine the read up on the plot of a movie they plan to watch or book they plan to read before starting it. Can't university students do the same?[/quote]

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