This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

This course explores the centrality of colonialism in the making of the modern world, emphasizing cross-cultural and social contact, exchange, and relations of power; dynamics of conquest and resistance; and discourses of civilization, empire, freedom, nationalism, and human rights, from 1500 to 2000. Topics include pre-modern empires; European exploration, contact, and conquest in the new world; Atlantic-world slavery and emancipation; European and Japanese colonialism in Asia, Africa, the Middle East. The course ends with a section on decolonization and post-colonialism in the period after World War II. Intensive reading and discussion of primary documents.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.

The Cornell Prison Education Program provides a liberal arts curriculum leading to an Associate of Arts degree for men incarcerated at the Auburn and Cayuga Correctional Facilities. Cornell faculty and doctoral students serve as instructors for all courses, and a community college accredits the degree conferred upon eligible prisoners. The program offers nearly a dozen courses each semester in economics, constitutional law and individual rights, creative writing, genetics, medical anthropology, international human rights, writing, math, and Asian meditation.