Courses in postcolonial literature can be an important part of a liberal studies education. There are elements of psychology, politics, history, and sociology woven into the study of oppression, resistance, self-image, and world view.

Europe is, by convention, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the western most point of Eurasia, Europe is usually divided from Asia by the watershed divides of the Ural and Caucasus Mountains, the Ural River, the Caspian and Black Seas, and the waterways connecting the Black and Aegean Seas.