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OSPCPTWN 35: Political Economy of Aids

Introduction to AIDS epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment; social and historical roots of AIDS in Africa; relationship between AIDS, sex and poverty; AIDS policy in South Africa (including AIDS denialism and the problem of stigma in rolling out antiretroviral treatment); demographic modeling of the AIDS epidemic (using publicly available modeling packages: EPP, Spectrum and ASSA2003lite); AIDS leadership at national and civil society level and financing the fight against AIDS.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom

OSPCPTWN 36: The Archaeology of Southern African Hunter Gatherers

Archaeology, history and ethnography of the aboriginal hunter gatherers of southern Africa, the San people. Formative development of early modern humans and prehistory of hunters in southern Africa before the advent of herding societies; rock paintings and engravings of the subcontinent as situated in this history. Spread of pastoralism throughout Africa. Problems facing the descendants of recent hunter gatherers and herders in southern Africa, the Khoisan people.
Terms: Spr | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-SocSci

OSPCPTWN 37: Independent Projects in Assessing Program Efficacy

Enrollment in OSPCPTWN 34 or permission of instructor required. Evaluation research on programs in the Western Cape that serve vulnerable children. Assess data showing whether a program serves a specific need. Attempt to find data supporting the efficacy, or lack of impact, a particular program may have. Write a detailed description of the program itself, how it has been implemented, and identifying the strengths and challenges in making a particular program successful. Assessments include interviews with staff and observations at sites served by the program.
Terms: Spr | Units: 2-4
Instructors: Solvason, H. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 38: Genocide: The African Experience

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 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP
Instructors: Adhikari, M. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 40: Education in the Post-Apartheid City

The changing schooling landscape in the post apartheid city. How the desire for quality schooling is constructed and understood in light of the lived practices that people establish in and across the city¿s geographies. How schools establish their identities in relation to the complex urban processes in the post-apartheid city. Role of culture, politics and economics in making the cultures of schools in the city. The ¿lived¿ spatial dimensions of schools and schooling processes and practices in the city and the institutional and individual subjectivities they spawn in the city¿s diverse spaces.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci

OSPCPTWN 41: Race and the Division of Labor in South Africa: A Historical Perspective

Process of industrialization in South Africa, how it simultaneously depended on and contributed to the racial division that characterized the pre-1994 era; consequences in the post-apartheid workplace. Transformation of the economic sector from agriculture to mining and manufacturing through the opening up of South Africa to the global economy. Role of the state and its relationship with labor and capital as molded by race and class.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4

OSPCPTWN 42: Race, Class, and Status: Cape Twon in Comparative Perspective

Economic and social stratification, focusing on Cape Town, in the context of other multi-racial or multi-cultural contexts in South Africa and elsewhere. Historical analyses from broadly Weberian and Marxist perspectives, concerned primarily with caste and class. Changing understandings of race, and the relationship between these and status. Quantitative and ethnographic data on contemporary, post-apartheid Cape Town; the ways in which race, class and status shape identities, interactions and other aspects of people¿s everyday lives.
Terms: Win | Units: 5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci

OSPCPTWN 44: Negotiating Home, Citizenship and the South African City

Material and socio-cultural dimensions of the multiple spaces making up South African cities. The gendered, placed, sexual, and racial character of homes, neighborhoods, and cities. Ways in which crises such as housing shortages and tenure insecurity are materially and socially embodied in economically impoverished families and communities¿ lives. Interplay of this body politic with economic and political contexts in which the meaning of citizenship is crafted. Urban fieldwork with the Valhalla Park United Civic Front, a community-based organization in Cape Town.
Terms: Win | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom

OSPCPTWN 65: Western Cape Sites of Memory

Relation between conventional histories and different kinds of individual and collective memory that are focused on places and spaces, testing the relation between grand narratives and more particularized pasts. Questions of cultural heritage, in particular its contestations among individual, familial, local, national, and international interests.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors: Parker, G. (PI)

OSPCPTWN 66: Apartheid and Aftermath: Modern South African Fiction

Overview of the English-language novel in South Africa since 1948, its sociology, and its relation to other genres (including verse, drama and the short story) and to literature in other languages. Authors include Paton, Rive, LaGuma, Serote, Mzamane, Brink, Coetzee and Gordimer.
Terms: Win | Units: 3-5 | UG Reqs: GER:DB-Hum, GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors: Parker, G. (PI)
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