Global Amer Studies Exchange

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This seminar convenes students from Georgetown's Doha and DC campuses to explore a foundational concept in American Studies scholarship: empire. Using the relationship between the United States and the Middle East as a representative case study, we will examine the cultural and political mechanisms behind global American power in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Primary and secondary source readings will range widely, surveying topics such as colonialism and sovereignty, immigration and migration, liberation and resistance. Discussions will take place across campuses in Georgetown’s RPX virtual classroom and will culminate in week-long, mid-semester site visits to Washington, DC, and Doha, Qatar.