This is not an official listing of courses that will be offered next semester. For the most accurate and complete information be sure to consult the official class schedule booklet for room assignments and times.
Anthropology |
| CAS AN 285 |
African Crisis |
Carpenter |
MWF 10:00--11:00 |
Graduate and undergraduate seminar on the uses and abuses of the ethnographic genre. We will examine a mix of classical and contemporary African ethnographies with an eye toward theory, methods and cultural content. The reading list will be designed to reflect the regional and topical interests of the students enrolled. |
CAS AN 585 |
Seminar in Advanced Reading in African Ethnography |
Shipton |
M 4:00 - 7:00 |
| Graduate and undergraduate seminar on the uses and abuses of the ethnographic genre. We will examine a mix of classical and contemporary African ethnographies with an eye toward theory, methods and cultural content. The reading list will be designed to reflect the regional and topical interests of the students enrolled. |
| CAS AN 285 |
African Crisis |
Carpenter |
MWF 10:00--11:00 |
Graduate and undergraduate seminar on the uses and abuses of the ethnographic genre. We will examine a mix of classical and contemporary African ethnographies with an eye toward theory, methods and cultural content. The reading list will be designed to reflect the regional and topical interests of the students enrolled. |
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CAS AH 215 |
Arts of Africa |
Borgatti |
TR 12:30 – 2:00 |
Exploration of key themes in royal art and architecture from western, central, eastern, and southern Africa. |
Romance Studies |
CAS LF 456 |
The Postcolonial Novel |
Cazaneve |
TR 3:30-5:00 |
| The Postcolonial Novel Prereq: CAS LF 350 An examination of postcolonial novels by Francophone writers from sub-Saharan Africa and the Maghreb. Discussion of linguistic, literary and theoretical issues related to the process of decolonization and the notions of national and trans-national discourses/spaces. Topics of discussion will include urban youth, (im)migration, and identity formation, new diasporas. Particular attention will be paid to age, space and gender as pertinent analytical parameters in the reading of the selected works. Authors to be discussed: Begag, Mongo Beti, Beyala, Djebar, Kourouma, Lopez, Mabanckou, Mokeddem and Tchak. |
| CAS XL 386 |
African Cinema |
Cazenave |
TR 12:30 - 2:00 |
Discussion of African films in their social and historical contexts and specificities of production practices. Primary topics of interest include traditional values, practices and social change; education; popular culture and urban life; politics; immigration; the youth; gender relations. |
Interdisciplinary |
| CAS ID 116 |
Africa Today: The Beat of Popular Culture |
Cornelius |
MWF 11:00-12:00 |
Provides a fresh view of African popular culture through the lens of contemporary literature, film, television, music, dance, and the visual arts. |
African Languages |
CAS LD 212 |
Second semester Amharic |
TBA |
ARR |
CAS LA 212 |
Second Semester Hausa |
Hutchinson |
ARR |
CAS LA 211 |
Fourth Semester Hausa |
Hutchinson |
ARR |
CAS LM 111 |
First Semester isiXhosa |
Mali |
ARR |
CAS LM 112 |
Second Semester isiXhosa |
Mali |
ARR |
| CAS LD 212 |
African Language 4 |
Staff |
ARR |
CAS LD 312 |
African Language 6 |
Staff |
ARR |
CAS LE 112 |
Second Semester Swahili |
Mmari |
ARR |
CAS LE 212 |
Fourth Semester Swahili |
Mmari |
ARR |
CAS LE 312 |
Sixth Semester Swahili |
Mmari |
ARR |
CAS LW111 |
First Semester Wolof |
Ngom |
ARR |
| CAS LW 112 |
Second SemesterWolof |
Ngom |
ARR |
CAS LW 212 |
Fourth Semester Wolof |
Ngom |
ARR |
CAS LD 491 |
Directed Studies |
Ngom |
ARR |
CAS LD491 |
Directed Studies |
Mali |
ARR |
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CAS PO 560 |
Politics and Society in North Africa and the Middle East |
Gendzier |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
| An investigation of contemporary North Africa and the Middle East, with emphasis on current socioeconomic and political trends and tensions. |
| CAS PO 566 |
Political Systems of Southern Africa |
Bustin |
TR 11:00-12:30 |
| Analysis of the balance of political forces in the multi-racial societies of southern Africa; emphasis on the problems of governmental stability, the prospects for integration and disintegration, the range of responses to interracial tensions, and their international repercussions. |
| CAS PO 587 |
International Human Rights |
Longman |
T 9:00-12:00 |
Studies the growing international influence of human rights principles, documents, and organizations on politics. Looks at the emergence of human rights discourse and reviews basic human rights law. Looks specifically at the impact of human rights in Africa, exploring issues such as universality versus cultural relativity, civil and political rights versus economic, social and cultural rights; individual versus group rights; and the activities of national and international human rights organizations. |
| CAS PO 786 |
Africa in International Relations |
Bustin |
W 2:00 - 5:00 |
Deals with the preconditions of foreign policy autonomy, the encapsulation of African actors in the dynamics of non-African foreign policy conceptualizations, and the range of options available to African states – from neutrality to alignment, and from dependency to collective actions. |
| GRS PO 842 |
Comparative Development and Underdevelopment |
Gendzier |
TR 2:00-3:30 |
A comprehensive course designed for graduate students interested in issues of development. Its principal objective is to provide a forum for the systematic consideration of a host of current practical problems. |
Sociology |
| CAS SO/IR 242 |
Gobalization & World Poverty |
Eckstein |
TR 12:30 - 2:00 |
How and why over 80% of the world remains poor and inequality increases despite economic modernization and democratization. Special attention to Latin American, African and Asian experiences.
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| CAS IR 425/825 |
Women and Social Change in the Developing World |
Eckstein |
T 3:30 - 6:30 |
Studies women in non-industrial counties of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. |
International Relations |
| CAS IR 383/PO383 |
Understanding Modern North Africa |
Rollman |
MW 6:00-7:30 |
Studies women in non-industrial counties of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. |
| CAS IR 507 |
Muslims and the West |
Dunbar |
TR 5:00-6:30 |
Explores the perennially troubled relationship between the Western and Muslim worlds in an effort to shed light on the realities and mutual misperceptions that give credence to the perceived cultural fault line between Muslims and Westerners. |
School of Education |
SED IE 602 |
Practicum and Seminar in International Educational Development |
Boatman |
R 4:00-7:00 |
| The course focuses on analyzing and creating policies and projects using education for social change and to create the well being of individuals, communities and nations. Non-majors do not need to complete the practicum part of the course.
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School of Public Health |
| SPH IH 773 |
Financial Management for International Health |
Vian |
T 6:00 - 8:45 |
While this is a skills course, many of the case studies are developed from my fieldwork in Africa. The course requires no prior knowledge of financial management and is a good course for anyone who will be doing program management work for development agencies or local Ngos |
School of Theology |
| STH TM/TH 848 |
Emergence of Christianity |
Robert |
TR 9:30-11:00 |
| Emergence of Christianity if Asia, Africa, and Latin America. |
College of Fine Arts |
CFA MU 350 |
Musical Cultures of the World
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Cornelius |
TR 11:00 -12:30 |
| No prereq; open to all students. A survey of music and musical cultures from around the world, including African- and Native-American traditions, Africa, India, Japan, Indonesia, and Latin America. 4 cr. |
