Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: CIVILIZING MISSIONS

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 4

Description: The development of "civilizing missions" legitimized territorial and spiritual conquest and validated the suppression of subject customs, cultures, and religions. Graduate reading seminar will explore the idea, which became an integral part of imperial, religious, and national ideologies. Readings include (in translation) modern historical, geographical, legal, ethnographic, religious, and literary texts.