HMD 416 DECOLONIZING SELF AND CULTURE

This course examines how we can validate and recenter the experiences, knowledges, and self-narratives of people from marginalized groups in the Global North and those who live in previously colonized countries, and groups that continue to experience the historical traumas of ongoing settler colonialism, racism, slavery, and migration. The course focuses on readings that illuminate how colonialism and coloniality shapes local conceptions of selfhood, family, culture, globalization, and indigenous retrieval of knowledge. Decolonial perspectives from psychology, human development, and education will be examined.

Credits

4

Cross Listed Courses

This is the same course as GWS 416.

Prerequisite

Any 200-level course in Human Development.

Registration Restrictions

Instructor Permission required. Open to juniors and seniors; and to sophomores with permission of the instructor.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Attributes

MOIB, MOIE, SDP, W