This course focuses on various forms of knowledge systems. In the contemporary global world, universal western technoscience encounters various local, global, and cultural forms of knowledge. This course explores the decolonial potential of this process in multiple contexts and settings to develop a critical view of how this encounter affects the future. We draw on Islamic and indigenous cases of the environment, ways of knowing, and being in the world concerning the technological world. Critical Ethnic Studies 2000-level seminars introduce students to the complexities and nuances of intersectionality, gender, disability, decolonial theory & philosophy, in imperialist and non-imperialist societies. 2000-level seminars may incorporate one or more of the following interdisciplinary fields of critical ethnic studies: Africana studies, African-American Studies, Asian American studies, Indigenous studies, Chicano/a /x, and Latino /a/x studies, border studies, cultural studies, critical disability studies, critical gender studies, and global racialized and global silenced communities.

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