Teaching
In 2021, RACE.ED inaugurated a new cross-university pre-honours course entitled “Understanding Race and Colonialism (SSPS0801)”. URC is a multidisciplinary course that provides an overview of the major issues at stake in the study of race, racialization and decoloniality from a broadly conceived social science and humanities tradition. It draws expertise from colleagues around the University working directly in the field of race and (de)colonial.
RACE.ED’s 2022 intern Yuke Huang did the incredible work of updating RACE.ED’s teaching portfolio section on our website so as to highlight pre-existing and new UoE course listed pertaining to questions of race, colonialism/coloniality and decolonial studies. The course listed canvass these areas to different degrees – some anchored entirely in the study versus others that take on the subjects in a peripheral way. We congratulate those in the RACE.ED network for making this content matter and matter meaningfully in our courses and pedagogy.
- School of Geosciences
Geography
SCQF Level 11:
- Professional Skills in Environment and Development
- Centring Racial Justice in Sustainability Transformations
SCQF Level 10:
- Black Geographies
- Development and Decolonization in Latin America
- Geographies of Food
- Geographies of the Border (Not running in 2024/25)
- Geographies of Race and Racism
- Queer Geographies: Spatialising Sexuality and Gender
- Race, Power, and Social Policy
SCQF Level 8:
- Social and Cultural Geography (Not running in 2024/25)
- School of Divinity
Divinity
Postgraduate Level
SCQF Level 11:
- Political Theologies: Current Controversies (Not running in 2024/25)
SCQF Level 10:
- School of History, Classics and Archaeology
History
Postgraduate Level
SCQF Level 11:
- Black Activism in Britain since 1800
- The Scientific Revolution in Global Perspective (Not running in 2024/25)
- Narrating Native Histories (Not running in 2024/25)
Undergraduate Level
SCQF Level 10:
- Carnival in the Atlantic World: Play, Power and Politics (Not running in 2024/25)
- Representations of Blackness in Britain and Europe, 1800 – 1950
- The Invention of Race: Early Modern Intellectual History and the Atlantic World (Not running in 2024/25)
- Revolution and Reform in the Modern Middle East
- Indigenous Peoples and Revolution in Modern Latin America (Not running in 2024/25)
- Cartography, Territory, and Indigeneity (Not running in 2024/25)
- Atlantic Slavery (Not running in 2024/25)
- Revolution and the End of Slavery in the British and French Atlantic Worlds (Not running in 2024/25)
- Gandhi and Popular Movements in India 1915 – 1950 (Not running in 2024/25)
- Post-Colonial South Asia
SCQF Level 8:
- School of Literature, Languages and Cultures
Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Postgraduate Level
SCQF Level 11:
Undergraduate Level
SCQF Level 10:
English Literature
Postgraduate/Undergraduate Level
SCQF Level 10/11:
- Decolonization and the Novel (Not running in 2024/25)
- Contemporary Postcolonial Writing (Not running in 2024/25)
- Education and Empire: Decolonising the Mind
- Commodities of Empire: Colonialism, Ecology, Culture (Not running in 2024/25)
- Neo-Imperialisms (Not running in 2024/25)
- Postcolonial Writing
- Edinburgh College of Art
History of Art
Postgraduate Level
SCQF Level 11:
- Modern and Contemporary Art of the Black Atlantic (Not running in 2024/25)
- Digital Islamic Art History (Not running in 2024/25)
- Around 900: The Early Islamic West in a Global Context (Not running in 2024/25)
- Idolatry: Images and the Sacred in the Americas and Europe, 1400-1700
Undergraduate Level
SCQF Level 10:
- The Politics of Postwar Abstraction: Diaspora, Decolonisation, Liberation (Not running in 2024/25)
- Imaging/Imagining the Americas: Cartography and Ecology across the Renaissance Atlantic
- The Arts in the Age of Great Caliphs 650 – 1250
Stars, Robots, and Talismans: Science, Magic & Medieval Islamic Visual Culture (Not running in 2024/25)
Architectural History
Undergraduate Level
SCQF Level 10:
- Landscapes of Empire (Not running in 2024/25)
- Sustainable Heritage: Historical Justice and Environmental Action through Heritage Management (Not running in 2024/25)
SCQF Level 8:
- School of Social and Political Sciences
Centre of African Studies
Postgraduate Level
SCQF Level 11:
- Rethinking Africa: Race, Space, and Power (Not running in 2024/25)
Sociology
SCQF Level 10:
- Advanced Issues in the Political Economy of Development
- Advanced Issues in the Making of Contemporary Africa
- Anthropology of Race and Racism
- Contemporary Feminist Debates
- Gender, Marginality and Social Change (Not running in 2024/25)
- Nations and Nationalism
- Sociology of Emotions
- Race and Ethnicity (Not running in 2024/25)
- Social Theory
SCQF Level 8:
Social Anthropology
SCQF Level 10:
- The Invention of History (Not running in 2024/25)
- Culture and Power
Politics
SCQF Level 10:
SCQF Level 8:
Social Policy
SCQF Level 10:
- School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences
Philosophy
Postgraduate Level
SCQF Level 11:
Undergraduate Level
SCQF Level 10:
- The Ethnologists: The Racial Origins of the Gender and the Feminine (Not running in 2024/25)
- Studies in Africana Philosophy: Debates within Black Intellectual History from the 1800 – 1920 (Not running in 2024/25)
- Radical Black Philosophies of Race and Racism (Not running in 2024/25)
- School of Law
Law
SCQF Level 11:
SCQF Level 11:
- Edinburgh Futures Institute
SCQF Level 11:
- Moray House School of Education and Sport
Education
SCQF Level 11:
- Business School
Business Studies
SCQF Level 11:
SCQF Level 10:
- School of Health in Social Science
School of Health in Social Science
SCQF Level 11: