Fall 2025 Ethnicity and Race, Center for Study of UN3928 section 001

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATION

COLONIZATION/DECOLONIZATI

Call Number 10182
Day & Time
Location
W 10:10am-12:00pm
420 Hamilton Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Karl Jacoby
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Prerequisites: Open to CSER majors/concentrators only. Others may be allowed to register with the instructors permission. This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; and European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.
Web Site Vergil
Department Ethnicity and Race, Center for
Enrollment 0 students (20 max) as of 9:05PM Wednesday, April 2, 2025
Subject Ethnicity and Race, Center for Study of
Number UN3928
Section 001
Division Interfaculty
Section key 20253CSER3928W001