printer friendly pageAFRICAAM 146: New Possibilities for Writing and Art
Writing workshop to explore conventional as well as innovative approaches to writing, including digital, sound and movement. How different forms of music can inspire poetry. How still art, live performance, interviews or film shape the way one can think about and compose stories. What those stories and poems look and feel like when put to movement. CWriting experiments, museum visits, and performance of students' works. Guest poets, fiction writers, and artists who blur these boundaries. Students submit written pieces each week to be discussed.
AFRICAST 111: Education for All? The Global and Local in Public Policy Making in Africa (AFRICAST 211)
Policy making in Africa and the intersection of policy processes and their political and economic dimensions. The failure to implement agreements by international institutions, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations to promote education. Case studies of crowded and poorly equipped schools, overburdened and underprepared teachers, and underfunded education systems.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-SI, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Samoff, J. (PI)
AFRICAST 112: AIDS, Literacy, and Land: Foreign Aid and Development in Africa (AFRICAST 212)
Public policy issues, their roots, and the conflicts they engender. The policy making process: who participates, how, why, and with what results? Innovative approaches to contested policy issues. Foreign roles and their consequences. Case studies such as: a clinic in Uganda that addresses AIDS as a family and community problem; and strategies in Tanzania to increase girls' schooling.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, WAY-EDP, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Samoff, J. (PI)
AFRICAST 199: Independent Study or Directed Reading
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-5
| Repeatable
for credit
AFRICAST 200: The HIV/AIDS Epidemic in Tanzania: A Pre-Field Seminar
Goal is to prepare students for an HIV/AIDS prevention, service-learning experience in Tanzania. Topics include: history of HIV/AIDS epidemic globally and in Tanzania; social and economic impact of AIDS; national and societal responses; ethical issues in crosscultural service learning; teaching for prevention; biology of HIV transmission, disease progression, and prevention; introduction to Tanzanian history and politics; HIV/AIDS and development; social, cultural, and economic context of HIV risk; and strategies for HIV prevention in Tanzania.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Katzenstein, D. (PI)
AFRICAST 211: Education for All? The Global and Local in Public Policy Making in Africa (AFRICAST 111)
Policy making in Africa and the intersection of policy processes and their political and economic dimensions. The failure to implement agreements by international institutions, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations to promote education. Case studies of crowded and poorly equipped schools, overburdened and underprepared teachers, and underfunded education systems.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Samoff, J. (PI)
AFRICAST 212: AIDS, Literacy, and Land: Foreign Aid and Development in Africa (AFRICAST 112)
Public policy issues, their roots, and the conflicts they engender. The policy making process: who participates, how, why, and with what results? Innovative approaches to contested policy issues. Foreign roles and their consequences. Case studies such as: a clinic in Uganda that addresses AIDS as a family and community problem; and strategies in Tanzania to increase girls' schooling.
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Samoff, J. (PI)
AFRICAST 278: Special Topics (Francophone Literature): From Exoticism to a Discourse of Auto-Representation (FRENLIT 278)
Critical analysis of major issues relating to literatures in French language in and outside France. Focus is on exoticism and and self-representation, with an emphasis on the evolution of mentalities, new sensitivities and the role of literature in developing individual or collective identity. Readings include Le Clézio, Memmi, Malouf, Lopes, Schwarz-Bart, Delaygue, Glissant, Todorov, Kane and others. Primary sources, secondary sources and film. Taught in French.
Instructors:
Mudimbe-Boyi, E. (PI)
AFRICAST 299: Independent Study or Directed Reading
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1-10
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Roberts, R. (PI)
;
Samoff, J. (PI)
AFRICAST 300: Contemporary Issues in African Studies
Guest scholars present analyses of major African themes and topics. Brief response papers required. May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut, Win, Spr
| Units: 1
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Hubbard, L. (PI)
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