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African
and Afro-American Studies 106
Battle Hall CB #3395 966-5496 AFRI
050 (n/a) First-Year Seminar: Kings, Presidents, and Generals:
Africa’s Bumpy Road to Democracy 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content An introduction to AFRI
101 (040) Introduction to 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Introduction to principal features
of African civilization through examination of geopolitical context; historical
themes; and selected social, political, economic, religious, and aesthetic
characteristics of both traditional and modern Africa. AFRI
190 (060) Topics in African Studies 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content A seminar for junior majors in the
curriculum and others with some background in the study of AFRI
261 (061) African Women: Changing Ideals and Realities 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (WMST 261/061) Introduction to
recent literature, theoretical questions, and methodological issues concerning
study of women in AFRI
262 (062) The Literature of 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content An introduction to African
literature. In addition to substantive themes, we will identify major stylistic
characteristics of modern African literature with particular attention to the
ways in which African language, literature, and traditional values have affected
modern writing. AFRI
263 (063) African Belief Systems: Religion and Philosophy in
Sub-Saharan 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content The relationship between religion
and society in sub-Saharan AFRI
264 (064) African Art and Culture 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Introduction to the plastic arts
of sub-Saharan AFRI
265 (065) 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content A seminar that critically examines
the historical and theoretical basis of the state's centrality in economic
development in African countries. Relevant case studies drawn from sub-Saharan AFRI
266 (066) Contemporary 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content A seminar that introduces students
to non-Western perspectives and comparative study of ecological, social, and
economic factors that influence the welfare of contemporary African
communities. Examination of famine, population growth, and health issues within
the context of African cultural and social systems. AFRI
296 (090) Independent Study 1-6 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, permission.
Independent study project designed particularly in conjunction with overseas
study. AFRI
368 (068) Political Protest and Conflict in 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course surveys contemporary
forms of political conflict and protest in AFRI
370 (070) Policy Problems in African Studies 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content A seminar for senior majors and
others with some background in the study of AFRI
375 (075) Politics of Cultural Production in 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. Explores the role that the cultural realm plays in legitimizing,
reproducing, resisting, and uncovering dominant structures of power in AFRI
395 (115) Field Research Methods in African Studies 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. This course will prepare students to conduct field research in AFRI
396 (190) Independent Study 1-6 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, permission.
Independent study project defined by student and faculty advisor for advanced
undergraduate and graduate students. AFRI
416 (116) Human Rights and Social Justice Movements in 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. Examines key theoretical and philosophical debates on human rights
and explores how they have informed major themes of human rights struggles in AFRI
430 (130) Comparative Studies in Culture, Gender and Global
Forces
3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (AFAM 430/130, WMST 430/130)
Prerequisite, permission required. Examines participatory development theory
and practice in Africa and the United States in the context of other intervention
strategies and with special attention to culture and gender. Requires two to
four hours a week of community service. AFAM
474 (174) Key Issues in African and Afro-American Linkages 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (AFRI 474/174) For advanced undergraduates and graduate
students. This course is intended to explore theoretical and methodological
issues concerning the historical linkages between African and Afro-American
peoples. AFRI
480 (080) Ethnography of Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content By examining ethnographic texts,
students will learn about topics in African studies such as systems of thought,
aesthetics, the economy, politics, social organization, identity, and the
politics of representation. AFRI
520 (120) Contemporary Southern Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (PWAD 520/121; HNRS
352)Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or equivalent. Study of the history, politics, and
economic development of southern Africa in the twentieth century. HNRS cross listing pertains to credit
received when taking the course as part of the Burch Field Research Seminar:
Rwanda and The Hague, as Culture, History, and Challenges of Rwanda. AFRI
521 (121) East African Society and Environment 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. Study of the history, politics, and economic development of Kenya,
Uganda, and Tanzania in the twentieth century. AFRI
522 (122) West Africa: Society and Economy in the Twentieth
Century
3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. Interdisciplinary course on twentieth-century west Africa. Topics
vary but are likely to include demography and health, gender, urbanization,
labor, religion and politics, and education. AFRI
523 (123) Central Africa: The Politics of Development 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. Study of the postcolonial political economies of central African
states, with emphasis on the state's role in development, the changing
character of state/society relationships (including recent pressures for
democratization), and the local impact of regional and global external
linkages. AFRI
524 (124) North-East Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. This course covers the history of colonial governments between the
end of World War II and the onslaught of decolonization (1919-1994) in north-east
Africa and the region's political systems thereafter. AFRI
540 (n/a) 21st Century Scramble for Afria 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, AFRI 101 or
equivalent. Examines the 21st-century global competition for African resources
and compares it to the 19th-century “scramble for Africa.” Major actors include
the European Union, the United States and China. AFRI
550 (n/a) The Challenges of Democratic Governance in Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content An in-depth examination of the
evoluation of trends and theories on democratic governance in Africa since the
end of the cold war. AFRI
600 (n/a) African Studies Colloquium 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content At least two courses on Africa,
This course will equip students to critically analyze cutting edge issues
concerning Africa today through readings, lectures, and research. For
junior/senior AFRI majors and students with interest in Africa. AFRI
691H (098A) Honors Research I 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Readings in African studies and
beginning of directed research on an honors thesis. Required of candidates for
graduation with honors in African studies. AFRI
692H (098B) Honors Research II 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Completion of an honors thesis
under the direction of a member of the faculty. Required of candidates for
graduation with honors in African studies. Anthropology 301
Alumni Bldg. CB #3115 843-8977 ANTH
057 (006E) First Year Seminar: Today in Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Examination of the daily news as
reported on-line by African newspapers, the BBC, etc. Readings and class
discussions of ethnographic and historical background. Student projects based
on following major stories. ANTH
059 (n/a) The Right to Childhood:
Global Efforts and Challenges 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Do children have special needs and
rights? There appears to be broad
international agreement (expressed in the UN Convention on the Rights of the
Child) that all children deserve family, identity, education, play, health
care, and nutrition and should be protected from exploitation, sexual abuse,
military service, and work that is hazardous or interferes with education. In this seminar we ask: what forces work
against ensuring basic rights for all children? to what extent do global
connections base privileges for some on deprivation for others? what is being
done to improve children's situation and or heal them from past abuses? how do
international efforts like the UN's figure into local struggles? ANTH
102 (049) Introduction to Cultural Anthropology 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content An introduction to non-Western cultures
studied by anthropologists. Includes an in-depth focus on the cultural and
social systems of several groups. ANTH
103 (n/a) Anthropology of Globalization 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content The study of different approaches
to globalization and of inequalities in power between nation-states, ethnic
groups, classes, and locales experiencing globalization. Uses ethnographic
materials to examine effects of transnational migrations and other processes of
globalization. ANTH
123 (023) Habitat and Humanity 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Cross-cultural survey of building
and landscape architecture, including prehistoric dwellings, and sacred
structures such as shrines and temples. Emphasis on architecture as symbolic
form and cultural meaning. ANTH
142 (042) Local Cultures, Global Forces 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Globalization as a cultural and
economic phenomenon, emphasizing the historical development of the current
world situation and the impact of increasing global interconnection on local
cultural traditions. ANTH
145 (045) Introduction to World Prehistory 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Introduction to world prehistory
and archaeological methods. Examines the development of human society from the
emergency of modern human beings 100,000 years ago through the formation of
ancient civilizations. ANTH
146 (046) The Nature of Moral Consciousness: A Course in General
Anthropology
3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content Introduction to world prehistory
and archaeological methods. Examines the development of human society from the
emergency of modern human beings 100,000 years ago through the formation of
ancient civilizations. ANTH
147 (047) Comparative Healing Systems 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content In this course we compare a
variety of healing beliefs and practices so that students may gain a better
understanding of their own society, culture and medical system. ANTH
151 (051) Anthropological Perspectives on Food and Culture 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Anthropological perspectives on
foodways. This course examines the biological basis of human diets as well as
the historical and cultural contexts of food production, preparation, presentation,
and consumption. ANTH
226 (026) The Peoples of Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Introductory ethnographic survey
emphasizing (a) diversity of kinship systems, economies, polities, religious
beliefs, etc., (b) transformations during colonial era (c) political and
economic challenges of independent nations. Lectures, films, recitation. ANTH
280 (080) Anthropology of War and Peace 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (PWAD 280/080) Cross-cultural
perspectives on war in its relation to society, including Western and
non-Western examples. Surveys political, economic, and cultural approaches to
warfare and peacemaking. ANTH
319 (119) Global Health 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (INTS 319/119) This class explores some of the historical,
biological, economic, medical, and social issues surrounding globalization and
health consequences. ANTH
320 (120) Anthropology of Development 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (INTS 320/120) Critical
exploration of current debates in the anthropology of Third World development,
the production of global inequality, and the construction of parts of the world
as underdeveloped through discourses and practices of development. ANTH
323 (123) Magic,Ritual, and Belief 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (FOLK 323) Permission of the
instructor. Starting with the late 19th-century evolutionists, this course
discusses, intensively, major anthropological theories of magico-religious
thought and practice, then offers an approach of its own. ANTH
334 (134) Art, Myth, and Nature: Cross-Cultural Perspectives 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (FOLK 334/134) Cross-cultural study of form, image, and
meaning in painting, drawing, and sculpture. Emphasis on the interrelationship
of religion and art in selected prehistoric and contemporary sociocultural
traditions. ANTH
422 (122) Anthropology and Human Rights 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content An examination of human rights
issues from an anthropological perspective, addressing the historical formation
of rights, their cross-cultural contest and the emergence of humanitarian and
human rights organizations on a global scale. ANTH
440 (140) Gender and Culture 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (WMST 440/140) Cross-cultural comparison
of gender roles through the life of a person, comparison to student's own
experiences. Discussion of changing sex and gender roles through history in
different cultures. ANTH
441 (141) The Anthropology of Gender, Health, and Illness 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (WMST 441/141) The course explores
cultural beliefs, practices and social conditions that influence health and
sickness of women and men from a cross-cultural perspective. ANTH
626 (n/a) African Cultural Dynamics 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content In-depth reading of several books
and articles that consider the interaction between indigenous African
traditions and intrusive colonial and post-colonial forces. Emphasis on class
discussion. Short papers and individual projects. Asian
Studies New
West 113 CB#3267 962-4294 ARAB
150 (33) Introduction to Arab Culture 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Introduction to the culture of the
Arab world and of the Arabs in diasporas: art, literature, film, music, dance,
food, history, religion, folklore, etc. ARAB
350 (n/a) Women and Leadership in the Arab World 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content A service-learning study abroad
course focusing on women and leadership in the Arab World. Topics include women
and religion, family, community and selfhood, citizenship and legal rights, and
politics. ARAB
433 (133) Medieval Arabic Literature in Translation 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Introduction to the main literary
themes and genres from the pre-Islamic era to the early 16th century; course
will include discussion of Andalusian literature. ARAB
434 (134) Modern Arabic Literature in Translation 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Course treats a variety of themes
and genres of Arabic literature from the mid-20th century to the present. ARAB
453 (n/a) Film, Nation, and Identity in the Arab World 3 Credit
Hours 60%
African Content Introduction to history of Arab
cinema from 1920s to present. Covers film industries in various regions of the
Arab world and transnational Arab film. All materials and discussion in
English. Art Hanes
Art Center CB #3405 962-2015 ART
154 (n/a) Introduction to Art and Architecture of Islamic Lands 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content (ASIA 154) This course introduces
the arts of the Islamic lands from the seventh-century rise of the Umayyad
dynasty of Syria to the 16th-century expansion of the ottoman empire. ART
155 (061) African Art Survey 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content A selective survey of sub-Saharan
African art (sculpture, painting, architecture, performance, personal
decoration) in myriad social contexts (ceremony, politics, royalty, domestic
arenas, cross-cultural exchanges, colonialism, post-colonialism, the
international art world). ART
255 (n/a) African Art and Culture 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course explores the art and
culture of sub-Saharan Africa on the levels of both production and consumption
both locally and globally. ART
290 (80A) Topics in Art History 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content Prerequisite, intermediate level
art history or permission of the instructor.
Anderson's section is titled:
Islamic Art in the Age of the Caliphs. ART
353 (n/a) African Masquerade and Ritual 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (AFRI 353, ANTH 343) Prerequisites
AFRI 101, ANTH 102 or 120, and ART 155.
Permission of the instructor for students lacking the
prerequisites. Explores ideas of and
contexts for select sub-Saharan African rituals/masquerades. Examines how
people use objects in establishing and mediating relationships with one
another, ancestors, and the spiritual world. ART
450 (n/a) The City as Monument: cities and society in the medieval
Islamic lands
3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content This course explores the
development, urban forms, and social structures of some of the major cities of
the medieval Islamic lands. We will consider the transformation of antique
cities such as Jerusalem, Damascus, and Cordoba and the foundation of new
cities of the “classical” Islamic period such as Baghdad, Samarra, and Fez. ART
453 (n/a) Africa in the American Imagination 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content (AFRI 453) Prerequisite, art
history or permission of the instructor. Examines the ways African art appears
in United States popular culture (advertisements, magazines, toys, films, art)
to generate meanings about Africa. Addresses intersecting issues of
nationalism, multiculturalism, imperialism, nostalgia, race. ART
458 (n/a) Islamic Palaces, Gardens and Court Culture 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Prerequisite, ART 154 or
permission of instructor. This course focuses on palaces, gardens and court
cultures beginning with the eighth-century Umayyad period and ending with the
16th-century reigns of the Mughal, Safavid and Ottoman dynasties. ART
487 (086) African Impulse in African African-American Art 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content (AFAM 487/081) This class will
examine the presence and influences of African culture in the art and material
culture of Africans in the Americas from the colonial period to the present. ART
488 (n/a) Contemporary African Art 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (AFRI 488) Prerequisite, ART 152 or 155 or permission of
the instructor. Examines modern and contemporary African art (1940s to the
present) for Africans on the continent and abroad. Examines tradition, cultural
heritage, colonialism, postcolonialism, local versus global, nationalism,
gender, identity, diaspora ART
561 (n/a) Art of Medieval Islamic Spain and North Africa 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content (ASIA 561) Prerequisite, ART 154
or permission of the instructor. This course introduces the art and
architecture of medieval Islamic Spain and North Africa between the eighth and
16th centuries. Asian
Studies New
West 113, CB #3267 962-4294 ASIA
435 (n/a) The Cinemas of the Middle East and North Africa 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content This course explores the social,
cultural, political, and economic contexts in which films are made and
exhibited and focuses on shared intra-regional cinematic trends pertaining to
discourse, aesthetics, and production. ASIA
451 (140) Orientalist Fantasies and Discourses on the Other 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content (FREN 451, INTS 451) This interdisciplinary course (literature,
film, painting, music) examines the Eastern and Western encounters with and
discourses on the other from the 18th century to the present. Burch
Field Research Seminars 230
Graham Memorial, CB #3510 966-5110 BFRS
365 (n/a) Burch Seminar in Botswana Credit
Hours 100%
African Content BFRS
370 (n/a) Burch Seminar in Rwanda Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Biology Coker
Hall, CB # 3280 962-2077 BIOL
062 (n/a) First Year Seminar:
Mountains Beyond Mountains: the biology of infectious disease in the
developing world
3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content We will explore the challenges of
treating infectious disease in the developing world, and examine how Partners
in Health and other entrepreneurial non-profit groups are meeting this
challenge. Restricted to first-year
students. In this course we will examine the challenges of treating infectious
disease in the developing world, and explore the root causes of global health
care inequities. BIOL
402 (n/a) Infectious Disease in the Developing World 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Prerequisites: Biol 202; Biol 205,
We will explore the challenges of infectious disease in the developing world,
focusing on tuberculosis, HIV, and malaria. We will also examine the economics
of different approaches to health care. Business McColl
Building, CB #3490 962-8301 BUSI
206 (n/a) Business in Africa Variable
Credit Hours Contact Instructor for% African Content BUSI
513 (n/a) Innovation & Entrepreneurship in Developing
Economies
1.5 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Covers innovative private sector
approaches to alleviating poverty around the
world. BUSI
515 (n/a) Social Entrepreneurship through Microfinance 1.5 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Analyzes the role of
microcredit/microfinance in global sustainable development. Students will be
creating, organizing, and facilitating a sustainable microfinance initiative of
their own design. BUSI
611 (n/a) International Development 1.5 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Examines global poverty from the
proposition that nations are poor because their markets do not work. Issues
include doing business in an emerging economy and policies to reduce global
poverty. City
and Regional Planning New
East, CB# 3140 962-3983 PLAN
685 (219) Water and Sanitation Planning and Policy in Lesser
Developed Countries
3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content (ENVR 685/286) Permission of the
instructor. Seminar on policy and planning approaches for providing improved
community water and sanitation services in developing countries. Topics include
the choice of appropriate technology and level of service, pricing, metering,
and connection charges; cost recovery and targeting subsidies to the poor;
water venting; community participation in the management and operation of water
systems; and rent-seeking behavior in the provision of water supplies. Communication
Studies 115
Bingham Hall CB #3285 962-2311 COMM
625 (n/a) Communication and Nonprofits in the Global Context 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Introduces students to the
opportunities, challenges, and rewards of participation within the
nonprofit/NGO sector. The course also equips students with the skills needed to
design and conduct engaged scholarship. COMM
649 (149) Third World Media 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content The cultural and educational uses
of radio and television are studied in the developing countries of Africa,
Latin America, and India. Emphasis will be placed on the new electronic media
and their effectiveness in serving developing countries. Dramatic
Art Center
for Dramatic Art CB #3230 962-1132 DRAM
475 (171) Costume History: Africa, Asia, and Arabia 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content A survey of the traditional
costume forms on the African Continent, in Asia (China, Japan, India), and on
the Arabian Peninsula. Economics 107
Gardner Hall CB#3305 966-2383 ECON
360 (096) Survey of International and Development Economics 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (INTS 360/096) An introduction to basic economic concepts critical
to understanding issues of economic development and international economics,
particularly as they relate to contemporary policy issues facing both
developing and industrialized countries. ECON
460 (161) International Economics 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (EURO 460, PWAD 460) Prerequisite,
ECON 310 or 410. An introduction to international trade, the balance of
payments, and related issues of foreign economic policy. ECON
560 (162) Advanced International Economics 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content Prerequisite, ECON 460. Analysis
and interpretation of selected problems and policy issues. Content varies, but
attention is given to such topics as trade barriers, trade patterns, floating
exchange rates, and international monetary policy. English Greenlaw
Hall, CB #3520 962-5481 ENGL
083 (n/a) First Year Seminar: Narratives of America and South
Africa: In Slavery, In Prison, In Limbo 3 Credit
Hours 40%
African Content Uses historical and biographical
materials, literary works, films and speeches from the United States and South
Africa to help illustrate the impact confinement has upon creative and literary
imaginations. Environmental
Science and Studies 100
Miller Hall, CB #1105 966-9922 ENST
225H (n/a) Water Resource Management and Human Rights 3-4 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Explores logistical, political,
social, and economic challenges in supplying every human with adequate access
to clean water, the most basic human right. Epidemiology McGraven-Greenberg
CB#7435 966-7430 EPID
690 (140,
141) Problems in Epidemiology 1-6 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content A course for students who wish to
make an intensive study of some special problems in epidemiology. Bennett and Rennie -Section Title: Global
Health Ethics Seminar; Weir -Section Title:
HIV in Developing Countries. Geography Saunders
Hall CB #3220 962-8901 GEOG
056 (006E) First-Year Seminar: Local Places in a Globalizing World 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content An examination of the relationship
between globalization and localization in order to think about how we, as
individuals and groups, can make a difference in the world. GEOG
130 (030) Geographical Issues in the Developing World 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content Population and ecological aspects
of problems in the urban, industrial, and agricultural development of
developing nations from a geographical perspective. GEOG
268 (168) Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Primary emphasis on the dynamic
spatial organization of Africa south of the Sahara. Individual countries will
be studied in view of their geographic characteristics and problems. GEOG
434 (134) Cultural Ecology of Agriculture, Urbanization, and
Disease
3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Examines the role of the
interactions of cultures, environments, and human diseases in the quest for
sustainable agriculture by examining the cultural ecology of agriculture
systems and their human diseases. GEOG
445 (145) Medical Geography 3 Credit
Hours 40%
African Content The human ecology of health is
studied by analyzing the cultural/environmental interactions that lie behind
world patterns of disease distribution, diffusion, and treatment, and the ways
these are being altered by development. GEOG
452 (152) Mobile Geographies:
The Political Economy of Migration 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content This course explores the
contemporary experience of migrants. Various theoretical approaches are
introduced, with the emphasis on a political economic approach. Germanic
Languages 438
Dey Hall, CB# 3160 966-1642 GERM
252 (094B) South Africa in Literary Perspective 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Course aims at an understanding of
the South African experience as represented by that country’s important
writers. Readings include works by Gordimer, Coetzee, Mphahlele, Breytenbach,
Fugard, Ndebele, Paton, la Guma. All materials in English. History Hamilton
Hall CB #3195 962-2115 HIST
067 (n/a) First-Year Seminar: Life Histories from 20th-Century
South Africa
3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This seminar introduces students
to the history of 20th-century South Africa, including the rise and fall of
apartheid, from the perspective of individual life histories. HIST
130 (20) Africa in the Twentieth Century: Transformations in
Culture and Power
3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Using fiction, film, primary
sources, and scholarly work, this course provides an overview of the major
issues in twentieth-century African history. Topics include colonialism and
neo-colonialism, social change, gender, and ethnicity. HIST
138 (36) Introduction to Islamic Civilization 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (ASIA 138/036) A broad, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary
introduction to the traditional civilization of the Muslim world. HIST
139 (n/a) Later Islamic Civilization and the Modern Muslim World 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content (ASIA 139/037) A broad interdisciplinary survey of the later
Islamic empires since the 15th century and their successor societies in the
modern Muslim world. HIST
176H (046H) Honors Seminar in Third World History 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content Examines selected themes in the
history of one or more nonwestern nations or regions of the third world.
Theme(s) chosen by instructor. Possible subjects include: colonialism,
resistance movements, religion, the family, economic transformations. HIST
202 (n/a) Borders and Crossings 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content This course will examine how
collective identities have been created, codified, and enforced; and will
explore possibilities for building bridges between groups in order to resolve
conflicts. HIST
276 (077A) Modern Middle East 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (ASIA 276) This course introduces
students to the recent history of the Middle East, including a comparison of
the Middle East to the United States. HIST
278 (078) The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade 3 Credit
Hours 75%
African Content Slavery in select African
communities, economic and political foundations of the trans-Atlantic slave
trade, and its impact on African and New World societies. HIST
279 (082) Modern South Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course covers the modern
history of South Africa, from the mineral revolution of the late nineteenth
century to the fall of apartheid in 1994. HIST
292 (190) Special Topics in History 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Owre's sections: France and Sub-Saharan Africa (Spring 09)
France and Algeria (Fall 08). HIST
292H (n/a) Honors Special Topics in History 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Lindsay's section: The U.S. and Africa; El Shamsy's
section: Race and Slavery in North
Africa HIST
301 (n/a) Screening History:
Africa at the Movies
3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course explores the history
of African film, the ways in which African history has been portrayed in film,
and the value of film as a historical source HIST
379 (n/a) Race, Segregation, and Political Protest in South
Africa and the U.S.
3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content This course explores the origins,
consolidation, and unmaking of segregationist social orders in the American
South and South Africa from the colonial era up to the 20th century. HIST
393 (090N) Undergraduate Seminar in History (Third World/Non-Western) 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, permission to
register from the undergraduate secretary in HM 556; the course is in general
limited to fifteen students. The subject matter will vary with the instructor.
Each course will concern itself with a study in depth of some problem in Third
World/non-Western history. Lindsay's section is titled: Africa Since 1940. Lee's section is titled: Race and Racism in
the Modern World. HIST
490 (100) Special Topics in History 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content El Shamsy's sections are
titled: 1) Peoples of North Africa,
600-1900; 2) History of Islamic Law HIST
534 (180) The African Diaspora 3 Credit
Hours 50%
African Content A comparative examination of the
movements, experiences, and contributions of Africans and people of African
decent from the period of the Atlantic slave trade to the present. HIST
535 (182) Women and Gender in African History 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content (AFRI 535/182) Analysis of
historical transformations in Africa and their effects on women's lives and
gender relations. Particular themes include precolonial societies, colonialism,
religious change, urban labor, nationalism, and sexuality. HIST
540 (109) African Intellectual History: Discourse, Knowledge, Politics 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course traces Africa's modern
intellectual history, exploring such topics as Africa's place in history,
African nationalism, pan-Africanism, the problem of colonialism, and the
meaning of progress. HIST
541 (n/a) African Environmental History: Ecology, Economy, and Politics 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course addresses the major
themes of the environmental history of Africa with an emphasis
on issues of local ecology, land use, and labor and the
struggles over these issues. HIST
542 (n/a) Development in Africa and its Discontents 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course examines the changing
meanings of the idea of development in Africa and the role that Africans have
played in shaping these meanings from the late 19th century. HIST
543 (n/a) Histories of Health and Healing in Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content This course focuses on the
historical, social, medical, cultural, policy, and economic aspects of health
and health crises in Africa. HNRS
296 (n/a) Honors Study Abroad - Cape Town 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content AFRI 396: Independent Study (3
Credits). Research Component of Internship, including weekly journal and term
paper. HNRS
352 (n/a) Burch Field Research Seminar, Summer 09 - Culture,
History, and Challenges of Rwanda 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content HNRS
353 01S (n/a) Honors Study Abroad - Cape Town 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content AFRI 540: The 21st Century
Scramble for Africa. HNRS
353 02F (n/a) Honors Study Abroad - Cape Town 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content AFRI 520: Contemporary Southern
Africa (3 Credits). Lecture Series on the History and Politics of South Africa,
organized by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA). HNRS
354 (n/a) Burch Field Research Seminar, Summer 09 - Rwanda- Human
Rights and International Law
3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content HNRS
357 (n/a) Honors Study Abroad - Cape Town 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content AFRI 296: Practicum in African
Studies. Health
Policy and Administration McGavran-Greenberg CB #7411 966-7350 HPAA
496 (140) Readings in Health Policy and Administration 1-6 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content Section: Critical Global Health Issues HPAA
660 (110) International and Comparative Health Systems 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content Methods of comparing health
systems, examinations of related national health systems, and analysis of
related high prevalence health issues. International
and Area Studies FedEx
Global Education Center CB #3263 962-5442 INTS
210 (077) Global Issues in the Twentieth Century 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (ANTH 210/077, GEOG 210/077, HIST
210/051, POLI 210/084) Survey of
international social, political, and cultural patterns in selected societies of
Africa, Asia, America, and Europe, stressing comparative analysis of
twentieth-century conflicts and change in different historical contexts. LAC
recitation sections offered in French, German, and Spanish. INTS
405 (103) Comparative Political Economics of Development 3 Credit
Hours 40%
African Content Political, economic dynamics of
selected countries in Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, and Africa. INTS
406 (104) Transitions to Democracy 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Transitions to liberal democratic
political structures in Latin America, Asia, Africa, and the former Soviet
bloc. Linguistics 104A
Smith Building CB #3155 962-1192 LING
542 (172) Pidgins and Creoles 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (ANTH 542/192) LING 101
recommended for undergraduates. Examination of the linguistic features of
pidgin and creole languages, the sociohistorical context of their development,
and their import for current theoretical issues (acquisition, universals,
language change). Music Hill
Hall CB #3320 962-1039 MUSC
146 (046) Introduction to World Musics 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content The study of music in and as
culture. Topics may include the performance cultures of Native America, south
Asia, Australia, Africa, east Asia, Southeast Asia, Europe, and the Americas.
May count as elective credit beyond the core for music majors. MUSC
258 (058) Musical Movements: Migration, Exile, and Diaspora 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (INTS 258/058) Prerequisites, MUSC 132 or 132H, MUSC 132L.
The musical results of migrations of all types (voluntary or forced) by way of
case studies drawn from historical and/or contemporary musics of Africa, the
Americas, Asia, and Europe. Political
Science 361
Hamilton Hall CB# 3265 962-3041 POLI
067 (006E) First Year Seminar:
Designing Democracy in Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Introducing the study of using
political institutions as levers of conflict management in ethnically plural,
postconflict national states. POLI
131 (060) Political Change and Modernization 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content An overview of politics and
government in the Third World, emphasizing characteristics, problems, and
solutions (successful and otherwise) common to nations making the attempt to
modernize. POLI
241 (059) Contemporary Africa 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Examines the development and
operation of the political systems of contemporary Africa, emphasizing the
period since independence and giving primary attention to sub-Saharan Africa. POLI
431 (126) African Politics and Society 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, POLI 131 or 241, or
AFRI 101. Comparative analysis of state-society relations in selected
postcolonial African countries. POLI
449 (141) Human Rights and International Criminal Law 3 Credit
Hours 65%
African Content (HNRS 354) This course examines
international efforts to punish genocide, crimes against humanity, and war
crimes. The evolution of international criminal law, jurisdiction, remedies,
problems, alternatives, and recent case studies is included. Cross listing refers to credit received when
taking the course as part of the Burch Field Research Seminar: Rwanda and The
Hague. Romance
Languages Dey
Hall CB #3170 962-2062 PORT
385 (n/a) Luso-African Literature in Translation 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content The literature of colonial,
revolutionary, and post-colonial Luso-Africa (Guinea Bissau, Angola, São Tomé e
Principe, and Mozambique). The course
begins with literature from the period of the Portuguese discovery of the lands
of their African colonies and quickly moves into the 20th century when
Luso-African literature became a representation of repression, a call to
revolution, a reflection of the horrors of war, and finally an expression of a
very complex identity. Public
Health 135
Dauer Dr. CB #7469 966-5285 PUBH
420 (120) AIDS: Principles and Policy 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Elective course jointly given by
the Schools of Dentistry, Public Health, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Medicine,
designed to provide a multifaceted understanding of social, clinical, and
biological aspects of the AIDS epidemic. PUBH
500 (n/a) Global Health Dinner Series 1 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Provide opportunities for students
to get to know each other through an exchange and discussion. Exchange points of view with
globally-experienced faculty at UNC. PUBH
510 (n/a) Interdisciplinary Perspectives in Global Health 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content This course explores contemporary
issues, problems, and controversies in global health through an
interdisciplinary perspective. It examines the tapestry of social, economic,
political, and environmental factors that affect global health, and will cover
the major determinants of, and responses to, poverty and health in developing
countries. PUBH
511 (n/a) Critical Issues in Global Public Health 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content PHLP permission is required.
Course intended for distance education students. This course teaches systems
thinking by exploring how social, political, economic and environmental factors
around the world affect the health of populations. Each lesson covers one critical global health
issue, primarily using interviews with experts in the field and case studies,
supported by readings from the literature. Students analyze the implications of
these complex global interactions on local health issues, especially as they
pertain to the following core public health functions: investigating community health problems,
preventing and controlling disease, conducting research and innovation,
assessing community needs, promoting healthy environments, continuous
improvement, and focusing on vulnerable populations. PUBH
512 (n/a) Global Health Ethics Seminar 2 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content The course will familiarize
students with some of the key ethical issues in global health, various cultural
perspectives on ethics and justice, and means of addressing ethical concerns. Public
Policy Abernethy
Hall CB #3425 962-1600 PLCY
520 (n/a) Environment and Development 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content (ENST 520, INTS 520) Reviews environmental problems in developing
countries. Analyzes proposed solutions, such as legal remedies, market
instruments, corporate voluntary approaches, international agreements, and development
policies. Discusses the link between trade and environment, environmental cases
from the WTO, and sustainable development. PLCY
590 (n/a) Special Topics in Public Policy Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Meier's section is titled: Global Health Policy. Introduction to the relationship between
international relations, global health policy, and public health outcomes. PLCY
(n/a) Health and Human Rights Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content PLCY
(n/a) The Political Economy of Food 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Religion 125
Saunders Hall, CB#3225 962-5666 RELI
060 (006E) First-Year Seminar: Religion and Racism 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content How does religion become a source of
ethnic or racial prejudice among certain religious practitioners? When does
prejudice against religious persons themselves constitute a form of racism or
ethnocentrism? This class explores answers to these questions by examining the
connections between religion and racism in modern societies like the United
States and South Africa. RELI
180 (n/a) Introduction to Islamic Civilization 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content (ASIA 180) A broad, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary
introduction to the traditional civilization of the Muslim world. RELI
181 (n/a) Later Islamic Civilization and Modern Muslim Cultures 3 Credit
Hours 30%
African Content (ASIA 181) A broad
interdisciplinary survey of the later Islamic empires since the 15th century
and their successor societies in the modern Muslim world. Sociology 155
Hamilton Hall CB #3510 962-1007 SOCI
058 (n/a) First Year Seminar:
Globalization, Work, and Inequality Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content need info including % Africa not
at all sure about this course SOCI
060 (006E) First Year Seminar:
Sociology of the Islamic World 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content This course exposes students to
the social, economic, political, and religious currents
that have made the Islamic world one of the most important regions
for global affairs, as well as one of the regions least understood in the
United States. SOCI
111 (011) Human Societies 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Introduction to comparative
sociology. The major types of society that have existed or now exist are
analyzed, together with major patterns of social change. SOCI
121 (021) Population Problems 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Social and economic causes of
population structure and change. Illustrations drawn from developing countries
and the less developed regions and sections of the United States. SOCI
419 (119) Sociology of the Islamic World 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content Investigates issues such as
tradition and social change, religious authority and contestation, and state
building and opposition in Muslim societies in the Middle East and around the
world. SOCI
450 (150) Theory and Problems of Developing Societies 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Theories concerning the development
process (motivational vs. institutional economics vs.
political and social development; similarity of sequential states and outcomes)
will be related to policy problems facing the developing nations. Social
Work Tate-Turner-Kuralt
Bldg., CB #3550 962-1225 SOWO
404 (n/a) Social Work Study Abroad: Africa 1-6 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Course examines social issues,
development strategies, health/mental health programs. Explores how country's
fledgling democracy and people are redesigning organizations and interventions
to respond to the needs of South Africans. Women's
Studies 401
Alumni Hall CB #3135 962-3908 WMST
237 (n/a) African Gender History 3 Credit
Hours 100%
African Content Prerequisite, WMST 101, or any
African History course with a grade of C or higher, This course seeks to
familiarize students with scholarly debates on the importance of gender as a
category of analysis, while gaining a greater sense of the African past. WMST
281 (081) Gender and Global Change 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content (INTS 281/081) Prerequisite, WMST 101 or permission of
instructor. Students will be introduced to recent debates over the meaning of
globalization, historical perspectives on the uneven development of global
systems of production, and communication. Course discusses global feminisms and
case studies of gendered globalization in the United States, eastern Africa,
Southeast Asia, and Latin America. WMST
289 (n/a) Women and the Law in Africa and the Middle East 3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content Prerequisite, WMST 101 or any
African History or Middle Eastern History course with a grade of C or higher,
Class focuses on the history of women in African and Middle Eastern colonial
and post-colonial legal systems. It examines 'native'customary law, Islamic
law, and human and women's rights. WMST
293 (093) Gender and Imperialism 3 Credit
Hours 65%
African Content Prerequisite, one course in gender
or non-Western societies or permission of instructor. Focuses on feminist
perspectives on imperialism; the effects of imperialism on colonized and
European women; women's participation in anti-imperialist movements; and the
legacies of imperialism for feminism today. WMST
388 (088) The International Politics of Sexual and Reproductive
Health
3 Credit
Hours Contact
Instructor for% African Content (INTS 388/088) Prerequisite, WMST 101 or permission of
Instructor. This course takes a feminist political economy perspective on debates
over current health issues of international concern, including HIV/AIDS and
population control. WMST
396 (n/a) Seminar on Human Rights, Feminism, and Sexuality 3 Credit
Hours 25%
African Content This course is a graduate course
(WMST 890), part of the Human Rights Cluster, and is offered to undergraduate students under this course number. We will discuss the history, discourse, and
applications of “human rights” by examining the perspectives and experiences of
feminist or women’s rights activists.
Focusing in particular on campaigns around sex work, HIV/AIDS, and
“sexual orientation” and “gender identity,” we will study how feminist and
sexual/gender rights activists have critiqued and used “human rights” discourse
to get national governments and the international community to see women and
sexual/gender minorities as “humans.”
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