Fall 2026 History BC2321 section 001

COLONIAL ENCOUNTERS

Call Number 00650
Day, Time & Location View Class Schedule & Location in Vergil
Points 3
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Lisa Tiersten
Type LECTURE
Course Description

Examines the shaping of European cultural identity through encounters with non-European cultures from 1500 to the post-colonial era. Novels, paintings, and films will be among the sources used to examine such topics as exoticism in the Enlightenment, slavery and European capitalism, Orientalism in art, ethnographic writings on the primitive, and tourism.

Web Site Vergil
Department History @Barnard
Enrollment 36 students (58 max) as of 10:06AM Monday, May 18, 2026
Subject History
Number BC2321
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20263HIST2321X001