printer friendly pageAFRICAST 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)
AFRICAST 301A: The Dynamics of Change in Africa (HISTORY 346)
Crossdisciplinary colloquium; required for the M.A. degree in African Studies. Addresses critical issues in African Studies by exploring intersections of the organization of power, structure of the economy, and patterns of social stratification. Interpretive debates on Africa's engagement with the slave trade, impact of colonialism, decolonization, democratization and civil wars, health and society, and Africa's engagement with globalization. The process of knowledge production and its social location, and the current state of knowledge.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Roberts, R. (PI)
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