We hear calls from around the world to make universities, libraries, and museums more diverse by including ideas and objects from outside North America and Europe. If everyone agrees that changes are needed, why is progress so slow? This course takes up these questions in four ways: (1) We engage with ways of thinking, researching, and analyzing from Latin America, Africa, and Asia, (2) We examine how cultural and intellectual institutions, like libraries, botanical gardens, archives, and museums both contribute to and disrupt the inequality pipeline which marginalizes creators and creations from outside traditional centers of power, (3) We explore how students and faculty in places such as Taiwan, Argentina, Morocco grapple with similar questions of unequal access and power by discussing them together over Zoom, and (4) we learn not just to deconstruct but to reconstruct by experimenting with how to create new spaces and ways to learn, display, and classify ideas and culture.
Units: 1
Max Enrollment: 15
Crosslisted Courses:
Prerequisites: At least two 200-level or above courses in the social sciences including Peace and Justice Studies.
Distribution Requirements: SBA - Social and Behavioral Analysis
Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring
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