This upper division undergraduate course is designed to critically engage with the concept and theory of colonialism and its affiliated concepts, postcolonialism and decolonialism; the gendering, sexualizing, classing, casteing, and racializing that are concurrent to colonialism, both historical and ongoing; the “libidinal configurations” of nations and regions. Using philosophical, ethnographic, historical, theoretical, and literary, artistic & cinematic cultural texts, students will deconstruct and critique the political, cultural and ideological configurations of colonial militarism, and the production of the Other and the “fragile” Self. Topics will include the gendered and libidinal representations and constructions of colonial nations and the colonized Others; imperialism and sexual desire; racialization and colonialism; intersectional analyses of race, gender, sexuality, nation, and coloniality; the relation of fiction and cinema to ideologies of colonial wars.Social Science and History (SSHIS) courses develop students' critical thinking skills through the study of history and the social sciences (e.g. sociology, psychology, economics, political science, anthropology, geography), as well as through contemporary interdisciplines that draw heavily on these fields (e.g. feminist and queer studies, media studies, urban studies, ethnic studies). Subject matter in these courses contributes to students' cultural literacy while instructional materials and classroom assignments introduce basic research problems and techniques.

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