Tag: trigger warnings

Beyond Trigger Warnings

I have seen good arguments against trigger warnings in the classroom and bad ones (sometimes in the same article). As I have said before, I oppose mandatory trigger warnings in higher education. But I want to move beyond arguing about…

Trigger Warnings in Higher Education

Over the weekend, trigger warnings hit the mainstream with a New York Times article about recent calls from university students for trigger warnings on syllabuses. Many of the responses I have seen online assume that such requests are about students wanting…