This course situates traditional knowledge in a global and modern context. In the contemporary global world, universal Western technoscience encounters various local, global, and cultural forms of knowledge. We draw on non-western cultural views of the environment, ways of knowing, and being in the modern technological world. How does
the question of traditional knowledge relate to various lived experiences in the contemporary globalized context? Each session in the course focuses on an issue. We are beginning with historical background, delving into pressing global problems such as biodiversity, law, climate change, and the human relationship with other beings, culminating with reflecting on new critical knowledge to imagine possible futures.Critical Ethnic Studies 3000-level seminars deepen students’ knowledge of the fundamental theoretical and political questions regarding the social construction of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, class from both domestic and global perspectives. The seminars utilize decolonial, transnational and intersectional approaches for producing knowledge about resistance, power, oppression, and systems of knowledge from the interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x and Latino /a/x studies, Women’ studies, border studies, cultural studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities. Courses can be in-person, hybrid, or online.

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