Faculty First Year Seminars 191PSY16 - Giving Voice to Adoption

In addition to introducing the first year students to UMass, the students in this course will explore adoption from the perspectives of the triad members; those who are adopted, birth parents and adoptive parents.? Time will be spent discussing private domestic adoption, adoption from foster care and international adoption.? Content areas to be discussed within the different types of adoption include open vs. closed adoptions, adoption by lesbian and gay parents, transracial adoption and laws that help to prevent child trafficking.? All students are welcome regardless of whether or not they experienced foster care and/or adoption.

First year (Fr or Soph)