Decolonization: Pwr/Jstce/Fut

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

This course explores decolonization as both a historical and contemporary process as well as an ongoing personal, intellectual, and ethical practice. It examines how ideas of history, identity, language, power, and research have been largely shaped by colonial and Eurocentric frameworks while engaging Indigenous, Global South, and other historically marginalized perspectives as equally valuable sources of knowledge and ways of being. In addition to studying liberation movements, students will consider how diverse ways of knowing can transform their understanding of their own future work, their relationships with others, and themselves. They will develop practical approaches for incorporating multiple perspectives and ways of being into their academic, professional, and personal pathways while envisioning more just, relational, and pluriversal futures.