Six COIL sessions on the topic of Postcolonial literature, led by dr. Martina Juričková from Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, took place between October and November 2023. The project combined teachings from the subjects of Literature, History, and Civic education, with the students working with two texts, Rudyard Kipling’s poem Overland Mail and Louise Bennett’s Colonization in Reverse. 

Through a series of group tasks, the students broadened their knowledge of the issues of colonization and decolonization, their effects on both the native population and the colonizers, and learned more about the selected writers, the histories of India and Jamaica, as well as immigration and its relation to the current situation concerning world immigration waves. The tasks consisted of group discussions and research of the assigned topics, as well as close reading and analysis of the poems. The students were thus able to develop both their critical thinking and problem-solving skills, but also their collaboration skills in an international environment.