Global and Connected Histories
Courses in this cluster of electives will expose students to history in an interconnected and global perspective. They break away from a nationalist mooring of the discipline of history (and its implicit Eurocentrism) to ask questions about shifting territorial and fluvial frontiers, oceanic worlds, diasporas and migrations, and the travel of people, cultures, and ideas across the globe.
Courses
Islam in a Global Perspective
Elective
Understanding Islam as religious thought, practice and a global phenomena.
Colonialism and Religion
Elective
How did European colonialism engage, interrogate, administer, and transform religious traditions across the colonised world?
Theories and Histories of Nonviolence
Elective
How can nonviolent thoughts and actions survive in times of violence?
Science, Technology, and Society: Past and Present
Elective
Debates on science and technology in the contemporary world.
