This pathway asks students to compare the processes of empire-building, the experiences of rulers and subject peoples, and challenges to imperial rule across global contexts and time periods. Students engage with a variety of disciplinary perspectives on central questions, including:

  • What has led peoples or nations to conquer and govern other peoples or nations? What political, institutional, or cultural structures have empires developed in the distant and recent past?
  • How is empire justified and explained to the conquerors and the conquered?
  • How have conquered peoples and/or colonized subjects responded to—accommodated, resisted, ignored, undermined—imperial or colonial powers and institutions?
  • How do the processes of empire-building, consolidation, and decline impact the political, social, and economic lives of ordinary people and elites?
  • How have post-colonial thinkers responded to the legacies of colonialism and empire? What are the legacies of empires in developing regional, transregional, and global interconnectedness in the past and present?
     

AFAM 205 Survey of Race and Culture in Ethnic Literature
ARTH 302 The Art of Mexico and Mesoamerica
ARTH 361 Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome
ARTH 367 Chinese Art
ASIA 340 First Encounters: Japan and Europe in the 16th Century
ASIA 344 Asia in Motion
CLJ 350 U.S. Detention and Deportation
CONN 235 The Photographic Image
CONN 272 Religion in Global Politics 
CONN 322 Jihad, Islamism, and Colonial Legacies
CONN 324 Religious Freedom and the Law
CONN 333 Nations and Nationalism in Modern Europe
CONN 355/ENGL 455 Black Feminist Theory
ENGL 242 Introduction to Native American Literature
ENGL 247 Introduction to Popular Genres
ENGL 361 South Asian Fiction
ENGL 362 Native American Literature
ENGL 382 Movements when topic is Irish Literary Revival
ENGL 431 Advanced Seminar in American Literature when topic is Frontier Mythologies, Critical Whiteness Studies, OR Native American Literature
FREN 260 Cultures of the Francophone World
FREN 330 Introduction to Francophone Literature
FREN 340 Francophone Women Writers
FREN 381 African Women Writers
FREN 392 African Film
GDS/IPE 211 Introduction to Global Development
GERM 355 Culture in the Third Reich
GERM 360 German Cultural History and Politics, 1871-Present
GERM 395 Holocaust in Contemporary Cinema
GERM 450 Contemporary Voices in German Literature and Film since 1989
GLAM 111 Ancient Rome
GLAM 330 Theories of Myth
HIST 103 History of Modern Europe, 1815 to the Present
HIST 224 Russia Since 1861
HIST 252 Monuments and Memory in US History
HIST 280 Colonial Latin America
HIST 281 Modern Latin America
HIST 291 Modern Africa
HIST 293 Early Africa to 1807
HIST 316 The British Empire
HIST 323 Politics and Societies in Post-Soviet Eurasia
HIST 325 Totalitarian Dictatorships in Twentieth Century Europe
HIST 344 Resistance, Rebellion, and Revolution in China: 1800 to the Present
HIST 360 Frontiers of Native America
HIST 361 United States and the War in Vietnam
HIST 368 The Course of American Empire: The United States in the West and Pacific, 1776-1919
HIST 370 Nationalism and the Fall of Empire in Central Europe
HIST 382 Comparative Revolution in Twentieth Century Latin America
HIST 393 Missions and Christianity in Africa
HUM 368 A Precious Barbarism: Enlightenment, Ideology, and Colonialism
LTS 200 Latina/o America: A Critical Introduction to Latina/o Studies
LTS 376 The Art of Mestizaje
MUS 321 Music of South Asia
PG 104 Introduction to Political Theory
PG 339 The Politics of Empire
PG 340 Democracy and the Ancient Greeks
PG 346 Race in the American Political Imagination
PG 347 Comparative Political Ideologies
PHIL 312 Latin American and Latinx Philosophy
REL 212 Global Islam
REL 444 God in the Anthropocene
SOAN 316 Cultural Politics of Global Development
SPAN 216 (Wo)men of Maize: Food Cultures of the Americas
SPAN 222 Introduction to Latin American Cultures
SPAN 325 Remembering a Violent Past
SPAN 326/416 One Hundred Years of Multitudes: A History of Latin American Film
SPAN 405 Bitter Flavors of the Americas: Sugar, Coffee & Bananas
SPAN 414 The Returning Resistance: Memory, Gender, and Nationalisms in Spain
STHS 325 Natural History Museums and Society
STHS 344 Ecological Knowledge in Historical Perspective