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The ITP requirement is one of the most geographically and historically diverse new breadth requirements. ITP combines a number of possible histories and periodizations (stretching from the medieval period to the present), and is not localized to specific geographies; it also brings together recent theory (from the period of decolonization in the twentieth century) and a much older tradition of writing about travel and empire; finally, it encompasses a potentially vast field of literatures in English, from writings by authors of the commonwealth nations that emerged from the breakup of the British empire, to creole literatures that arose historically from contact between colonizing and indigenous languages and peoples, to canonical British and American writing that addresses those nations' respective empires in one form or another.