We'll begin the course by exploring our immediate environments through the lens of the stories our ancestors tell about them, begin to generate and share our own stories and experiences of exclusion, and recognize that the cultural knowledge and assets immediately available to us can be as valuable as what is contained in books. 

In this module, we'll continue to reframe our relationships to land based on our observations, recognize the indigenous roots of permaculture design, and begin to apply permaculture principles in both observations and visualization/mapping of your immediate environment.

In this module, we'll compare the history and economics of the pre-capitalist and pre-colonial world; define development and identify examples of “development” in various cultures by the year 1400; and describe the importance of a historical perspective rooted in global interconnection to the proper understanding of the ongoing impacts of colonialism.

In this module, we'll identify the ways capitalism and colonialism enforce each other; explain the relationship between humans, nature, and society; and determine our roles in helping to regulate the planet's metabolic process.

In this module, we'll explore the various forms that colonialism has taken over space and time; recognize the impact of colonialism on our current lives; explain the relationship between colonialism and displacement; and identify the ways in which colonization has disrupted our relationships to ancestral lands. 

In this module, well identify the ways in which colonization led to displacement and diaspora in the historical context of the African continent; trace the impact of different types of colonialism on the internal and external displacement of life and "resources"; and explain how colonial extraction and exploitation led to lasting disruptions in the food systems and production of the African continent, land displacement, religion, resistance, and the enslavement of Africans.

In this module, we'll identify the ways in which colonization led to displacement and diaspora in the historical context of the Americas; explore and define the different types of colonialism that leads to greater internal/external displacement in the Americas; explain the ways in which colonization converts land and people into resources to exploit; and outline how colonial extraction and exploitation led to lasting disruptions including genocide, land theft, ecological disruption through the introduction of European farming methods, and religion.

In this module, we'll identify the ways in which colonization led to displacement and diaspora in the historical context of Asia and the Indian subcontinent; explore and define the different types of colonialism that lead to greater internal/external displacement for people in Asia and the Indian subcontinent; and unpack key topics related to colonialism in South and Southeast Asia including occupation, militarism, intervention, war, statehood, diaspora, and other colonial legacies.

In this module, we'll identify the ways in which colonization led to displacement and diaspora in the historical context of the United States; explore and define the different types of colonialism that leads to greater internal/external displacement for people in the United States; and unpack key concepts related to the experience of colonization in the United States, including land theft, genocide, the Middle Passage and Trans-Atlantic trade in enslaved Africans, "discovery," economic exploitation, and religion.

In this module, we'll trace the relationship between racism and the multiple forms of exclusion of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities in the U.S.; identify different frameworks for conceptualizing and contextualizing the roots and impacts of racism; articulate the often insidious ways in which racism impacts our own communities; and describe the ways in which racism is "systemic."

In this module, we'll explore and define the different types of environmentalism; describe the racist and exclusive history of environmentalism in the United States; and survey and identify the causes of underrepresentation of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities in nature, outdoor recreation, and environmentalism. 

In this module, we'll describe how the reorganization of physical space can facilitate displacement; distinguish between the various forms exclusion can take, and has taken throughout history; connect the historical and geographic processes of exclusion; and discuss key aspects of food apartheid and how it reveals the systemic nature of food insecurity.

In this module, we'll evaluate the ways exclusion is created, maintained, and contested through language; describe how language can be use as a contested space; unpack the harmful uses of language differentiating farms and farm work; and unpack the ways in which data is not neutral, but is instead leveraged as a mechanism of exclusion.

In this module, we'll define "food regimes"; identify linkages between the dominant food regime and colonialism; explain how the current food regime impacts the total food system from seed to plate; and describe the diverse and dire needs that agricultural workers face in the current food regime. 

In this module, we'll define reparations; analyze the political, social, and economic arguments in support of reparations; and survey the breadth of actions that constitute as an act of reparation.

In this module, we'll identify various methods of resistance currently undertaken by Indigenous peoples around the world; recognize the cultural foundations and origins of these resistance efforts; and compare and contrast these land sovereignty movements from more whitewashed mainstream movements.

In this module, we'll identify various methods of resistance currently undertaken by Indigenous peoples around the world; recognize the cultural foundations and origins of these resistance efforts; and compare and contrast these land sovereignty movements from more whitewashed mainstream movements.