Global and Post-Colonial Studies Minor
This interdisciplinary minor aims to provide students with an understanding of our increasingly complex, globalized world. Through the lens of literature, the arts, history, politics, and culture, students will be introduced to key concepts in global and postcolonial studies. Through an awareness of marginal knowledge systems and neglected histories, students will critically engage the global in their lives.
For the Global and Postcolonial Studies minor, at least four courses (16 credits) in designated courses are required. Students are encouraged to study abroad and are invited to pursue either a regional or thematic concentration within the minor. For the core course, students may choose between IN 203 Postcolonial Cultures and IN 213 Introduction to Global Studies. The remaining 12 credits are chosen from the course list, at least one of which must be at the 300 or 400 level.
Courses
- CC 221 - Global Political Communication
- HI 200 - Contemporary World History
- HI 201 - Africa, Asia, and the Middle East in Popular History
- HI 204 - Islam in the World
- HI 227 - Radical Women in Contemporary World History
- HI 240 - Topics in World History**
- HI 310 - Demystifying Revolutionaries: Race, Imperialism, and Transformative Change in Latin America*
- HI 340 - Advanced Topics in World History**
- IN 110 - Culture, the Arts, and Social Change
- IN 203 - Postcolonial Cultures (if not used as a core course)
- IN 208 - Rainbow Nation? Race, Class, and Culture in South Africa
- IN 210 - Topics in Global Studies**
- IN 211 - Africana Thought and Practice
- IN 213 - Introduction to Global Studies (if not used as a core course)
- IN 235 - The Arab Uprisings: A Social History of the Modern Middle East and North Africa
- IN 236 - Global Revolts and the Crisis of Neoliberalism
- IN 301 - Postcolonial Cinema
- IN 307 - Gender, Sexuality, and the Middle East
- IN 318 - World Wide Underground: Hip Hop as Resistance Around the Globe
- IN 322 - Food and Globalization
- IN 324 - Visual Ethnography
- IN 325 - Space, Race, and Power
- IN 335 - 500 Years of Globalization
- IN 351 - Global Social Movements and Radical Social Thought
- IN 361 - Global Media Literacy
- IN 370 - Advanced Topics in Global Diversity Studies**
- IN 416 - South African Cinemas
- IN 421 - Key Contemporary Thinkers: Fanon
- LI 211 - Topics in Global Literature**
- LI 311 - Topics in Global Literature**
- LI 324 - Latin American Short Fiction*
- LI 381 - Global Literatures*
- LI 396 - International Women Writers*
- LI 423 - Topics in Global Literature**
- LI 424 - Imagining the Caribbean*
- LI 436 - Cultural Criticism*
- PL 220 - International Politics
- PL 222 - Human Rights
- PL 230 - The US and Latin America
- PL 310 - Collective Action and Identity Politics*
- PL 322 - Truth, Justice, and Reconciliation
- RL 115 - Islamic Ways of Life
- SO 206 - Gender in a Global Perspective
- SO 305 - Religion and Globalization
- VM 206 - African and African Diaspora Arts
- VM 207 - Arts of the Americas and the Pacific
- VM 214 - East Asian Arts
- VM 215 - South Asian Arts
- VM 301 - Postcolonial Cinema*
- VM 311 - Latin American Cinema*
- VM 418 - Transnational Asian Cinemas*
* Note prerequisites
** Check current course listings for specific topics
Faculty
Claire Andrade-Watkins (Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Mneesha Gellman (Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Nigel Gibson* (Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Alden Jones (Senior Affiliated Faculty, WLP)
Roy Kamada (Associate Professor and Chair, WLP)
Maria Koundoura (Professor, WLP)
De-nin Lee (Associate Professor, VMA)
Rituparna Mitra (Assistant Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Cara Moyer-Duncan (Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Yasser Munif (Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Vinicius Navarro (Associate Professor, VMA)
Vincent Raynauld (Associate Professor, CS)
Nelli Sargsyan (Associate Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Tulasi Srinivas (Professor, Marlboro Institute)
Shujen Wang (Professor, VMA)
Please note this may not be a comprehensive list, as our affiliated faculty rotate on a semesterly basis. Please refer to the semester registration listings to identify any additional faculty participating in the minor.
* Minor Coordinator
