United States – Global South Encounters

Undergraduate

The expansion of United States’ power throughout the Global South (emphases may vary according to the expertise of the professor, but will include consideration of the Americas, Africa, the Indo-Pacific and the Middle East) from the late eighteenth century to the present. Topics will include transcontinental and overseas expansion, colonial warfare and resistance, the construction of racial and national identities, gender in an imperial context, and borderland cultures (Prerequisite: Restricted to History majors and other students with at least semester 5 and permission of the instructor.) Seminar (3 hours/week). (This is an experiential learning course.)