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OSPCPTWN 14: Academic Internship

Opportunity for students to pursue their specialization in an institutional setting such as a school, research institute, university, NGO, ICT4D organizations, or museums/art galleries. Engage with selection of readings relevant to the context of internship, meet weekly with the Engaged Learning Coordinator in small groups, attend group seminars, and complete assignments set by the instructors. Program culminates with a symposium, where students present their internship projects. Units determined by the number of hours per week at the internship. Prerequisite: consultation with BOSP Cape Town Engaged Learning Coordinator to develop internship that links field of study to practical experience and reflection
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 3-5

OSPCPTWN 16: Sites of Memory

ey sites of memory in post-apartheid South Africa, in both Cape Town and Johannesburg, that are representative of a diverse range of memorialisation in contemporary South Africa. Consideration of the relevant historical context, contemporary conflicting interpretations and contemporary identity contestations. What is the historical context of the site? By whom is the site remembered and memorialised? How is the site memorialised? What are the diverse interpretations and contestations about the site in terms of contemporary identities and memorialisation in the new South Africa?
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 3

OSPCPTWN 18: Xhosa Language and Culture

History of the Xhosa language; understanding Xhosa culture and way of life. Listening, speaking, reading and writing, combined with the social uses of the language in everyday conversations and interactions. Intercultural communication. Content drawn from the students' experiences in local communities through their service learning/volunteer activities to support the building of the relationships in these communities. How language shapes communication and interaction strategies. Course may be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 2 | Repeatable 3 times (up to 6 units total)

OSPCPTWN 21: Activism and Intersectionality in SA Music & Media

Activism as it relates to debates about race, gender and intersectionality in South African music, mass and social media. How the discipline of Media Studies can contribute to scholarship on the quality of public discourse about transformation in the country. Exploration of entertainment media as a source of information about politics. Role of an interrogation of gender politics as well as structural mechanisms, such as macroeconomic policy in addressing social justice in post-apartheid South Africa and in considering solutions to inequality. Theories of racial and gender identity politics by representative authors.
Terms: Win | Units: 3

OSPCPTWN 24A: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development

Two-quarter sequence for students engaging in Cape Town-sponsored community based research. Introduction to approaches, methods and critical issues of partnership-based, community-engaged research and to the community-based research partners. Qualitative data gathering and analysis methods in community-based research; effective collaboration with community partners and data sources; race and privilege in community-based research. Preparation of research proposals and plans for research carried out during the second quarter through OSPCPTWN 24B.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 3

OSPCPTWN 24B: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development

Two-quarter sequence for students engaging in Cape Town-sponsored community-based research. Substantive community health or development investigations in collaboration with the Stanford Centre's community partners: Western Cape NGOs or government agencies, or community-based organizations or groups. Students' research supported through methods workshops, sharing of progress and problems, and data and findings presentations. Prerequisite: OSPCPTWN 24A.
Terms: Sum | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Africa, A. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 28: Multilingual Diversity and Bi-/Multilingual Education: Beginnings, Transitions and Futures

Sociolinguistic history that gave shape to multilingual education in South Africa. Colonial and apartheid roots of S. Africa's bi-/multilingual education system. How bi-/multilingual education took shape at the transition of the new S. Africa between 1990 and 1994, the formulation of language policies and the implementation of bi-/multilingual education. Role of new multilingual speech practices, role of popular culture in young multilingual speakers' lives, and how young multilingual speakers deal with issues of race and gender
Terms: Win | Units: 3

OSPCPTWN 30: Engaging Cape Town

Engaged scholarship course inviting students to think critically about core concepts in engaged scholarship. Focus on issues of identity and diversity. Students are called upon to evaluate (and modulate) their time in Cape Town in relation to these concepts. Drawing on their own experiences, identity politics, prescribed reading material, applied reading material and their engagement with informal learning spaces in Cape Town, students will interrogate how their identities and those of fellow South Africans are produced and reproduced.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 2

OSPCPTWN 31: Political Economy of Foreign Aid

Political economy approach to foreign aid. Context of debate on development: differences between developed and less developed countries, concept of poverty, how to measure development. History of foreign aid; main actors and characteristics of official development assistance. Theoretical and empirical impact of aid with regard to economic growth and governance. Benefits and problems associated with aid.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI
Instructors: ; Africa, A. (GP)

OSPCPTWN 38: Genocide: African Experiences in Comparative Perspective

Genocide as a major social and historical phenomenon, contextualized within African history. Time frame ranging from the extermination of indigenous Canary Islanders in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries to more recent mass killings in Rwanda and Darfur. Emphasis on southern African case studies such Cape San communities and the Herero people in Namibia. Themes include: roles of racism, colonialism and nationalism in the making of African genocides. Relevance of other social phenomena such as modernity, Social Darwinism, ethnicity, warfare and revolution. Comparative perspective to elucidate global dimensions.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP

OSPCPTWN 43: Public and Community Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

Introduction to concept of public health as compared with clinical medicine. Within a public health context, the broad distribution of health problems in sub-Saharan Africa as compared with U.S. and Europe. In light of South Africa's status as a new democracy, changes that have occurred in health legislation, policy, and service arenas in past 16 years. Topics include: sector health care delivery, current distribution of infectious and chronic diseases, and issues related to sexual and reproductive health in South Africa. Site visits to public sector health services and health related NGOs.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom

OSPCPTWN 50: [Independent Study] Conservation & Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa

Independent research and writing on topics related to conservation and resources in Sub-Saharan Africa. Potential topics include climate change and adaption to South Africa, community-based conservation in Sub-Saharan Africa (examining conservation experiments such as the Lewa Conservancy and the Northern Rangeland Trust in Kenya), the provision of energy in South Africa, and citizen rights to healthy environment in African nations.
Last offered: Spring 2015 | Units: 2-3

OSPCPTWN 57: Directed Study in Health Systems and Policy

Directed study projects focusing on some aspect of health systems and policy in the Southern African context. Example topics include analysis of: local HIV control policies; the South African health care system; health care delivery patterns; investments in health infrastructure as an enabler of health care delivery; health systems strengthening and concomitant improvements in population health; and social networks and influences in disease risk. Students will be expected to write an in-depth term paper that carefully analyzes the problem under consideration. Analyses that include the development of mathematical or analytical models are encouraged.
Last offered: Winter 2015 | Units: 1-3

OSPCPTWN 63: Socio-Ecological Systems

The global dynamics of biodiversity and ecosystem resilience using the mountains, farmlands and informal settlements as a living classroom. Critical ecosystem services that underpin the well-being of all societal groups and how these ecosystem services can be managed or restored to build resilience and support transitions in complex, interconnected social-ecological systems. Scientific focus on humanity¿s dependence on biodiversity and ecosystems as the third leg of sustainability science research, in addition to climate change and resource depletion. Deep ecology perspectives that value all life irrespective of its human utility as well as consideration of the non-quantifiable benefits of humanity's connection to nature. Limited enrollment.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Africa, A. (GP)

OSPCPTWN 70: Youth Citizenship and Community Engagement

Critical thinking about core concepts in community engagement such as community, self, and identity. The course aims to cultivate a critical consciousness about the meaning of charity, caring, social justice and the aims of engagement with communities to enhance self awareness, awareness of others who are different, awareness of social issues, and an ethic of care where students can be change agents. The meaning of youth citizenship as it relates to engagement with communities will be explored.
Terms: Win | Units: 3 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP

OSPCPTWN 75: Giving Voice to the Now: Studies in the South African Present

How to make sense of present-day South Africa, its various forms of cultural expression, and what its common project might be. Through analysis of literature and film, explore the pluralities, intersections and crossings that come together to make up the complex state of being one inhabits in South Africa. Imagining spatial structures (cities, campuses) as imagined forms invested with meaning by the people who occupy them. How spaces (and South Africa itself may be thought of as a space) are affected by people, and vice versa.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Africa, A. (GP)

OSPCPTWN 76: (South) Africa Rising: Implications for Conflict, Democracy, and Human Rights

International political impacts of (South) Africa's emergence, including how the country's extraordinary wealth and stability (despite its ongoing challenges) translates into a unique role in shaping the trajectory of the continent. Key question: whether Africa will remain a place where autocratic rulers are insulated from external pressure and left alone to commit abuses in their own countries, or whether they will face pressure from their neighbors and the region acting collectively to change their ways. South African perspectives from Cape Town scholars and activists. Field trips to meet directly with South African government officials
Terms: Win | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Weinstein, J. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 77: Independent Study: Topics in South African Politics and Development

Independent study with weekly meetings. Possible topics include: (1) addressing inequality, including the government's programs to address inequality, the political opposition to the ANC's economic approach, and the fundamental questions of land and asset ownership; (2) challenges to South African democracy, including the various political opposition parties, how the ANC is fairing as compared to other founding parties in comparative perspective, and the challenges of the legislative and judicial branches in reigning in the ANC's excesses; (3) crime and insecurity, including the magnitude of the challenge and how government and the society are responding and; (4) truth and reconciliation, including race and ethnic politics and the impact of South Africa's truth and reconciliation commission.
Terms: Win | Units: 2-4
Instructors: ; Weinstein, J. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 78: Postcolonial Modernist Art Movements in Africa

Introduction to the complexities and contradictions of 'modernity' and 'modernism(s)' in postcolonial Africa. With a focus on ideology-driven interdisciplinary artistic movements in Senegal, Nigeria, Sudan, Congo, Egypt, Ethiopia and South Africa, examine various schools of thought that were part of modern consciousness that characterised the independence decades. Role that art centres, workshops, collectives and mission schools played in histories of European expansion and colonialism. Debates regarding notions of 'appropriation,' 'natural synthesis' and 'assimilation' interpreted in the context of postcolonial theory. Different modes of production and methodological approaches.
Terms: Sum | Units: 3
Instructors: ; Africa, A. (GP)

OSPCPTWN 80: Business in Africa

Economic reforms leading to a rapidly improving business environment in many countries across the continent. Policy-related reforms and strategies adopted by African governments designed to ensure that their economies are more business-friendly. Economic changes coinciding with, and bolstered by, political reforms adopted by several African countries. Effect of improved political conditions on business across most African states, with most of the civil wars and inter-state conflicts having ended.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2
Instructors: ; Africa, A. (GP)

OSPCPTWN 81: Facing the Past: History, Memory, and Politics in Post-Conflict Societies

A survey of the emerging field of retrospective justice through a series of topical readings and case studies. Topics include: history of "genocide," both as practice and as legal category; war crimes tribunals; truth commissions; the politics of official apologies; monetary reparations programs; and the art, architecture, and politics of public memorials. Specific cases range from the Holocaust and its aftermath to the ongoing debate in the United States over reparations for slavery, but focusing in particular on South Africa's complex, contested transition from apartheid to democracy.
Terms: Sum | Units: 5
Instructors: ; Campbell, J. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 82A: Independent Study: South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

An opportunity to delve into the origins, history, and legacy of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Sources include contemporary journalistic accounts, subsequent scholarly analyses, and, most important, the voluminous archive of the TRC itself, including the Commission's final report, transcripts of hearings, and victims' statements.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2-4
Instructors: ; Campbell, J. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 82B: IS: South African Literature

Drawing on works of fiction plumbing the depths of South Africa's violent past and present, an opportunity for students to devise their own pathway through this extraordinarily rich literary tradition. Possible readings include: Solomon Plaatje, Mhudi; Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country; Zoe Wicomb, David's Story and/or You Can't Get Lost in Cape Town; Njabulo Ndebele, Fools and Other Stories; Nadine Gordimer, A World of Strangers and/or The Conservationist; Herman Charles Bosman, Unto Dust; and Can Temba, The Will to Die.
Terms: Sum | Units: 2-4
Instructors: ; Campbell, J. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 199A: Directed Reading A

Course may be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 2-4 | Repeatable 2 times (up to 8 units total)

OSPCPTWN 199B: Directed Reading B

Course may be repeated for credit.
Terms: Win, Sum | Units: 1-5 | Repeatable 10 times (up to 50 units total)
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