Postcolonial Studies Minor
The minor in Postcolonial Studies builds upon Franklin’s culture of travel and global citizenship by asking students to think critically about what it means to travel and live in an increasingly interconnected, yet persistently unequal world. Postcolonial Studies examines the effects of colonial encounters and structures from a transdisciplinary perspective. The courses in this minor explore global power structures and the ways in which literatures and other media are produced, disseminated, and consumed in a postcolonial world.
No more than two courses applied to a minor may overlap with the student's declared major.
Minor Requirements (18 Credits)
Foundation Courses (6 Credits)
| CLCS 254 | Introduction to Postcolonial Literatures and Theories | 3 |
One of the following:
| HIS 101 | Western Civilization II: Modern | 3 |
| HIS 105 | Global History II: Globalization, the Emergence of the Modern State, and Coping with Change | 3 |
No more than one of the following courses may overlap with other major or minor requirements. Students must take courses from at least three disciplines.
Three of the following, with at least one at the 300 level (9 Credits)
| CLCS 275 | Literature and the Land: Aotearoa-New Zealand | 3 |
| CLCS 330 | The Politics of Mobility: Exile and Immigration | 3 |
| CLCS 360 | Critical Race Studies in a Global Context | 3 |
| COM 301 | Globalization and Media | 3 |
| ECN 303 | Development Economics | 3 |
| ECN 355 | Political Economy: Theories and Issues | 3 |
| ENV 220 | Ecocritical Approaches to Literature | 3 |
| FRE 324 | Postcolonial Franco-Maghrebi Literature: Exile, Margins, and Re-Territorialization | 3 |
| GER 372 | Postcolonial Switzerland | 3 |
| HIS 245 | Worlds of Judaism | 3 |
| HIS 273 | Race and Empire in the American Experiment | 3 |
| HIS 330 | East Asia, 1900 to the Present | 3 |
| HIS 351 | Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Europe | 3 |
| HIS 355 | The World and the West in the Long 19th Century | 3 |
| HIS 358 | Global Britishness | 3 |
| POL 377 | International Political Economy | 3 |
Academic Travel (3 Credits)
One of the following:
| AHT 218T | Harbor Cities: Architecture, Vision, and Experience | 3 |
| AHT 330T | Crossroads: Arts and Cultural Heritage of Taiwan | 3 |
| CLCS 238T | Reading the Postcolonial City: Berlin and Hamburg | 3 |
| CLCS 247T | French Cultural Institutions: Power and Representation | 3 |
| HIS 275T | History of Modern Ireland: Union and Dis-union, 1798-1998 | 3 |