PLPT 4500

Course content: this class will blow your mind. Truly, it’s changed my life. Many other politics classes will teach you how to recognize & treat symptoms of societal issues; this class enables you to analyze and diagnose the root of the majority of problems (heteropatriarchy, climate change, genocide against the Indigenous,+) we face today: colonization. I unlearned many false narratives that coloniality (or the legacy of colonization) perpetuates and discovered new perspectives and actual truths. I originally took interest and applied to UVA for the Batten school but I am now intending to apply for grad school elsewhere to master in Decolonial Theory. I desperately wish for this class to become a staple offered every semester.

Structure: (Zoom university) readings outside of class and semi-lecture/group discussion in class. A few papers and we did a final presentation on a decolonial film. Each class one person had to do a mini-presentation on the reading.

Instructor: After reading many Course Forum reviews, I think some people may find her lecturing boring but since when is class a form of entertainment? Very sweet, encouraging, available to help outside of class by appointment. She actually goes line by line and reacts to your papers with annotations, effort unheard of even in TAs let alone professors.