The 200 word project is a visual and audio tool comprised of a database of specialized words with pictures and video clips that allow students to hear native speakers pronounce each word. Words were identified based on their applicability to professional fields such as business, medicine, and human rights as well as their ability to […]
The Fall 2022 African studies course offerings are listed on the ASC website! These courses count towards the African Studies minor, the African Languages and Literature minor, the major in Linguistics and African languages and the African Studies graduate certificate. Have a class that you would like to add to the list? Please email the course number to ASC Program Administrator Natasha Patel.
From all of us at the African Studies Center, congratulations to the Class of 2021! We are extremely proud of our students who have worked hard to navigate the turbulence of the last year, and we are excited to what is next for our graduates. Minor in African Studies Helen Bekele, B.A. Political Science Devon Laurel Moehlenkamp, B.A. Anthropology* Teferi Tadesse, B.A. Health […]
ASC Language Program Director Dr. Zoliswa Mali co-authored a new article out in Syntax entitled, “Two Places for Causees in Productive IsiXhosa Morphological Causatives.” Read the abstract here.
Last week our seasoned African language instructors exchanged teaching techniques, by preforming demos during their professional development workshop. African Language Program Director, Dr. Zoliswa Mali writes about the experience. Kudos to Mwalimu Judith Mmari and Mwalimu Lamin Diallo for wonderful lessons! My Swahili and Wolof are better today than yesterday! Both are long serving language instructors, with […]
The BU African Studies Center recently published Comprehensive Outcomes-Based Assessment: A Guide for African Language Instructors. Written by Dr. Jennifer J. Yanco, retired Director of the West African Research Association and longtime member of the BU ASC community, the 95-page workbook provides assessment tools for African language instruction from Beginning through Superior levels, providing concrete […]
The African Studies Center at the Boston University Fredrick S Pardee School of Global Studies is proud to announce that it has been awarded National Resource Center (NRC) and Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) grants from the US Department of Education. The African Studies Center will receive more than $2.2 million over four years to provide fellowships for students and support […]
Boston University’s African Studies Center (ASC), an affiliated center of the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies, piloted a Swahili language course designed for Masters of Public Health candidates during the Spring 2016 semester, and students discussed the benefits of the course as well as the close the ties between the School of Public Health and the African Studies Center. The class, […]
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“I wasn’t learning how to order food from a restaurant,” says Zak Gersten (CAS ’11, MPH ’15). “I was learning how to actually hold a conversation with somebody about some specific area of public health.” Public health doesn’t often make it onto a language curriculum, unless the class is small, and public health work is […]