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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.

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.

Community engaged learning course inviting students to think critically about core concepts in community engagement. Specifically focus on issues of identity and diversity. Students are called upon to evaluate (and modulate) their engaged learning practice in terms of these concepts. Examination of models of engaged practice and cultivation of a critical consciousness about the meaning and implications of community engaged practice. Ways in which self and other are positioned within prevailing power structures, when working with so-called "communities". Ethics of engaging diverse communities; existing assumptions and practices. Drawing on their own experiences, identity politics, prescribed reading material, applied reading material and their engaged learning practice, students will interrogate how their identities and those of community partners are produced and reproduced.

Social ecological framework for understanding different types of violence against women; Centre for Diseases' Four Steps approach to understanding and responding to a public health problem. Different types of violence against women in different contexts and settings as seen in international and South African literature and local research findings. Extent and nature of violence against women as a public health issue as seen in its magnitude and health impact on individuals, families and communities. Different prevention strategies including bystander interventions and partnerships with men explored through oral presentations, case study analysis and active participation.

Introduction to the social and historical phenomenon of genocide, contextualized within the contours of world history as well as the histories of European colonialism and Western racist thought from the start of European colonial expansion in the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. Global comparative perspective focusing on southern African, North American and Australian case studies. Theoretical engagement with the concept of genocide and approaches to the subject. In addition to racism and colonialism, themes include: roles of settler regimes; development of the global economy; nationalism in the making of these genocides.

This course examines Issues surrounding mediation and implementation of peace agreements, peacekeeping, refugee management, and justice and accountability in Africa's recent civil wars. This course uses several case studies of wars and peace processes to examine what is needed to end wars and build peace in Africa. The course will examine successful and failed mediation of wars by African diplomats, American and European diplomats, and international organizations. It will compare and contrast peace processes that successfully brought wars to an end with those that failed to bring peace, and in some cases brought dramatic escalation.

Possible topics include: South Africa's Democratic Performance, 1994-2016; Evaluating the Truth and Reconciliation Process; Nelson Mandela and the Art of Leadership; South African Politics and Society through Literature

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.

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.