The Importance of Being Quite Certain

WHITE STUDIES: COLONIALISM, MODERNITY, AND CONTEMPORARY INSTITUTIONS

Course Focus:
This course examines whiteness as a historically contingent framework that shaped European modernity, colonial expansion, and contemporary global institutions. Emphasis is placed on structural analysis rather than moral evaluation.

Learning Outcome:
Students develop the ability to trace continuity between historical frameworks and contemporary institutional practices across cultural, political, and academic contexts.