Module: 3
Sponsoring Program: Graduate Studies
Administrator: D'Anne Duncan

STUDY LIST INFORMATION
Course Number: GRAD 219
Course Name: Colonial Legacies in Global Health (Special topics in racism and social justice)
Units: 3
Grading Option: S/U
Course Director: D'Anne Duncan

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Co-director: Kara Zamora
Dates: April 25– May 6
Location: Zoom (Zoom details will be sent to registered students by director/administrator)
Schedule: Mon , Thurs 10am-1pm
Maximum Class Size: 15


Course Description: Colonial legacies in Global Health” will center the topic of coloniality and builds on prior course material (Grad 202) by exploring the production of race and racial categories as categories of Othering produced during programs/processes of colonization. In particular, this course builds on topics in the prior mini course “Colonial and Carceral Legacies in Sciences and Medicine” by focusing on topics such as disability in the Global South, logics of Whiteness embedded in public health programs of sanitation, and other biomedicalized “civilizing processes” as processes of whitening. This course will also specifically attend to the role of the United States in global processes of colonialism, both historically and in the present, through an examination of American colonial medicine and global health programs based in the U.S. today. Throughout the course, careful attention will be paid to refining students’ use of broad terms such as “colonization” (e.g., settler colonialism within the continental US versus overseas US colonialism in the Philippines) versus “neo-colonial” US global military practices, and “decolonization,” and will emphasize grounding students’ thinking around developing decolonial interventions to specific histories of colonialism.