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OSPCPTWN 10: Climate Change and Political Violence

Policymakers and scholars are increasingly interested in whether climate change could increase the risk of political instability, including violent conflicts within and between countries. In this seminar, we explore such questions as: How could the expected effects of climate change make civil or international conflicts more likely? What evidence is there that environmental factors contribute to political violence, both historically and today? What regions or countries are most at risk from these challenges, and why? In addition to addressing the human and social impacts of climate change, topics include what causes political violence within and between countries and how we can assess the contribution of different risk factors. In addition, methods and data that scholars use to explore the link between climate and conflict.
Terms: Sum | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-SI
Instructors: Schultz, K. (PI)

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
Last offered: Summer 2020

OSPCPTWN 15: INDIGENOUS PEOPLES, LAW

This seminar will examine the history of Indigenous peoples and their legal status in some of the settler colonies of the British Empire, including the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and South Africa. It will consider shared histories of Indigenous dispossession and struggles over land tenure, contests over sovereignty and the meaning of treaties, issues of citizenship and subjecthood, and efforts at the destruction of Indigenous culture through the criminalization of traditional religious practices and the forcible removal of Indigenous children; it will also explore histories of Indigenous resistance to settler policies. The course will conclude with a comparative survey of the law governing Indigenous communities in these settler states today, as well as ongoing struggles for Indigenous rights.
Last offered: Autumn 2021

OSPCPTWN 17: Understanding Liberation Struggles: The US Civil Rights and South African Anti-Apartheid Movements

Two of the most consequential social movements of the 20th century are the African American Freedom Struggle in the U.S. and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa. There are extensive literatures on both movements, but rarely have these two movements been studied comparatively. What are the similarities and differences between the two struggles? And how well to theories of social movement origins account for the two movements? In this course, we will review the history of the two movements and then compare their emergence, subsequent development and ultimate impact through the lens of social movement theory. We will then bring the course to a close with a sobering look at the legacies of both movements as well as the state of contemporary racial politics in the U.S. and South Africa.
Last offered: Autumn 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP

OSPCPTWN 19: Understanding Liberation Struggles: The US Civil Rights & South African Anti-Apartheid Movements

Two of the most consequential social movements of the 20thcentury are the African-American Freedom Struggle in the U.S. and the Anti-Apartheid Movement in South Africa. There are extensive literatures on both movements, but rarely have these two movements been studied comparatively. What are the similarities and differences between thetwo struggles? And how well do current theories of social movement origins account for the two movements? In this course, we will review the history of the two movements and then compare their emergence, subsequent development, and ultimate impact through the lens of social movement theory. We will then bring the course to a close with a sobering look at the legacies of both movements as well as the state of contemporary racial politics in the U.S. and South Africa.

OSPCPTWN 20: Social Dynamics of Health in South Africa: A Medical Anthropological Perspective

This seminar introduces students to the field of anthropology's intersection with Health, Illness and Medical Histories. Drawing on discourses in Body politics, feminist theories of health and medical anthropological approaches to research, this seminar series seeks to question and explore the nature of health realities in South Africa and Africa more broadly. Essentially, it provides an intersectional exploration into how health is comparatively conceptualised using anthropology as the model of analysis. The series is presented discursively and students' lived-experience and critical reflections are welcomed. Topics covered in the course include anthropological configurations of 'the body' (including phenomenology and biopower) as well as the history and geography of medicine (something of a broad sweep of the impact of European medicinal encounters in Africa). The theoretical approach adopted will consider postcolonial theory, development theory, and feminist theories to unpack healt more »
This seminar introduces students to the field of anthropology's intersection with Health, Illness and Medical Histories. Drawing on discourses in Body politics, feminist theories of health and medical anthropological approaches to research, this seminar series seeks to question and explore the nature of health realities in South Africa and Africa more broadly. Essentially, it provides an intersectional exploration into how health is comparatively conceptualised using anthropology as the model of analysis. The series is presented discursively and students' lived-experience and critical reflections are welcomed. Topics covered in the course include anthropological configurations of 'the body' (including phenomenology and biopower) as well as the history and geography of medicine (something of a broad sweep of the impact of European medicinal encounters in Africa). The theoretical approach adopted will consider postcolonial theory, development theory, and feminist theories to unpack health realities in South Africa and Africa more broadly. Typical to studies in health and well-being, the seminar series is interdisciplinary in its delivery and students are encouraged to engage critically with a broad range of literature and texts in order to grapple with the content. Thus, there are no prerequisites for doing the course and we welcome students with varying majors. The course will consist of weekly seminar sessions across 8 weeks (2 seminars per week, 16 seminar sessions in total)Instructor: Dr Efua Prah
Last offered: Winter 2022 | UG Reqs: WAY-EDP, WAY-SI

OSPCPTWN 23: Foundations of Public Health

This interdisciplinary core course examines public health and healthcare in the US and globally using a social justice lens and emphasizing the interconnectedness of population and individual health. Using public health and healthcare delivery as the overarching framework, the course will cover foundational elements of public health and historical contributions. The course will cover the ethical bases, key terms and concepts, system organization; and the social, behavioral, environmental, and biological factors that contribute to specific individual and community health outcomes through interactive learning strategies and the application and integration of concepts to understand and prevent current public health problems and those facing public health.
Last offered: Winter 2022

OSPCPTWN 24: Sustainable Energy Systems for South Africa

This course addresses the question: How can South Africa realize it pledge to reduce global warming emissions by 2030 and beyond. The approach is to review the South Africa Energy Flow Diagram and determine system solutions to carbon emission reduction, assisted by a modeling program developed in the Hesselink group. The teaching approach involves lectures, field trips, consultations with energy leaders in South Africa, and small discussion groups involving students and teacher. The overarching objective of the course is to teach students to improve their ability to critically think about (energy) issues and solving problems.
Terms: Aut | Units: 3

OSPCPTWN 26: Topics in Organizations and Management

Students my choose from the following topics: Culture and Cultural Differences; Global Work; Navigating Diverse Teams; Organizations and Management; The Future of Work. Weekly meetings to review progress.
Last offered: Spring 2019

OSPCPTWN 28: Reimagining Histories of Africa: A Workshop

This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which histories of Africa (with a special focus on Cape Town and South Africa more generally) can be told, narrated, captured, produced, and experienced through means other than what might be called traditional "scholarly" or "academic" historical narratives. While professional historians have long-established methodologies for writing about the past, history is continuously explored by people removed from the academy and uninterested in engaging with many of the historiographical and methodological issues that concern scholars. Put another way, many people think about, relate to, and recreate the past in ways that lack footnotes, citations, and sometimes even words. The course has two main components. First, we will consider how aspects of African history have been treated by non-academics from various walks of life, including artists, writers, archivists, photographers, and engaged citizens. In this aspect of the class, more »
This class explores, through analysis and practice, the ways in which histories of Africa (with a special focus on Cape Town and South Africa more generally) can be told, narrated, captured, produced, and experienced through means other than what might be called traditional "scholarly" or "academic" historical narratives. While professional historians have long-established methodologies for writing about the past, history is continuously explored by people removed from the academy and uninterested in engaging with many of the historiographical and methodological issues that concern scholars. Put another way, many people think about, relate to, and recreate the past in ways that lack footnotes, citations, and sometimes even words. The course has two main components. First, we will consider how aspects of African history have been treated by non-academics from various walks of life, including artists, writers, archivists, photographers, and engaged citizens. In this aspect of the class, Cape Town will be our laboratory; we will take multiple field trips to museums, historical sites, archives, and other relevant exhibitions. If possible, we will schedule meetings with people working to bring the past to life, either through museum work, archival projects, or artistic expression. Approaches will include graphic histories, creative non-fiction, oral histories, art installations, performance and reenactments, and sites of memory, such as museums. Much of our class discussion will be structured around experiencing, critiquing, and understanding the methods used to produce these reflections on the past. We will assess, through weekly exposure to examples, what works, how it works, what doesn't work, and why. But the course is also essentially a creative and research-oriented endeavor. Our analysis of others' works of exhibitions, art, and documentary is undertaken in the service of thinking about students' own projects. Run essentially as a workshop, the latter part of the course will help students develop and create their own reflections on aspects of African history, memory, or the past. Throughout the course, students will start to develop both a subject and a method to capture a historical experience, event, or episode in a way that allows them to express effectively its import ? emotional, political, personal, or otherwise ? for the present. Along the way, students will be expected to help lead discussions, produce short assignments, and make presentations on the development of their project. The main goal of the class, though, will be the production of a final project ? an innovative work of history, a personal and engaging reflection on the past.
Terms: Spr | Units: 4 | UG Reqs: WAY-A-II, WAY-SI
Instructors: Daughton, J. (PI)
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