printer friendly pageOSPCPTWN 16: South Africa Sites of Memory
Required Course. 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, Spr
| Units: 2
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, Spr, Sum
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
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, Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Meehan, T. (PI)
;
Sanchez, D. (PI)
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: Spr, Sum
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Meehan, T. (PI)
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, Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-SocSci
Instructors:
Parkington, J. (PI)
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, Spr, Sum
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom
Instructors:
Cooper, D. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 44: South African Urban Challenges in Comparative Context
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: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, GER:EC-GlobalCom
OSPCPTWN 49: Water in South Africa: Human Right, Public Trust, or Market Commodity?
History of South Africa's current water policies and its approach to the management of its water resources, guaranteeing all citizens a "minimum basic quantity of water" - a human right to water - as well as providing for "ecological water reserves" to meet environmental needs. Market concepts to help meet its water goals. How is South Africa doing in meeting its water goals and what policy measures might better realize those goals? Meetings with local and national water officials, non-profit leaders, and water users to discuss the water challenges that the nation faces.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
| UG Reqs: GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-SI
Instructors:
Thompson, B. (PI)
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.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-3
Instructors:
Thompson, B. (PI)
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, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: WAY-EDP
Instructors:
Africa, A. (PI)
;
Carolissen, R. (PI)
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