In 2015 a global movement began at the University of Cape Town to decolonize education, research, and tackle institutional racism in academia. This course gives students an introductory engagement of decolonial research practices. Decolonizing research and knowledge means to center the concerns and perspectives of non-Western individuals on theory and research. Thus, this course will be a process of “unlearning” social and scientific standards that we have taken as universal, resisting coloniality in academic production of knowledge, and moving research into action. This course will broadly discuss research methods and praxis in social sciences and in public health/medicine.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 15

Crosslisted Courses: WGST 332

Prerequisites: At least one 200 level course in the social sciences or in science.

Distribution Requirements: EC - Epistemology and Cognition

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Not Offered; Spring