printer friendly pageOSPCPTWN 12: Independent Studies
Independent work in one of the following areas: Photographing Cape Town using the camera to enhance observation and communication; Malaria in Africa; African hemorrhagic fevers; teaching evolution in South Africa; S. Africa's Antarctic policy; the biology of HIV. Individual meetings to follow progress.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Siegel, R. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 13: Biology and Ecology of the Lion King
Scientific and ecological issues addressed in the movie The Lion King. Insights, comparisons, and contradictions, with emphasis on animals: lions, hyenas, warthogs, meerkats, mandrills, and horn bills, but also including insects, flamingos, giraffes, and zebras. Issues: food webs, predation, animal locomotion, animal behavior, animal communication, symbiosis, land and water conservation, climate change and global warming, recycling of organic materials and the circle of life. Also addressed: portrayal of African language; elements of the literary hero; Shakesperean parallels; The Lion King as cultural phenomenon, and relationship to other Disney movies.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Siegel, R. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 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
| Units: 2
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 17: Western Cape 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: Spr
| Units: 1
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (PI)
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
| Units: 2
| Repeatable
3 times
(up to 6 units total)
OSPCPTWN 22: Preparation for Community-Based Research in Community Health and Development
For students intending to engage in community-based research in South Africa in the summer following spring study quarter in Cape Town. Approaches and methods of collaborative, community-based research; 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. Identifying research partners and sponsors; articulating potential research questions; and planning research projects.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (PI)
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 spring quarter through
OSPCPTWN 24B.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (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
| Units: 5
Instructors:
Stanton, T. (PI)
OSPCPTWN 31: Theory and Politics of Foreign Aid
Political economy approach to foreign aid. Context of debate on development: differences between developed and less developed countries, concept of poverty, how to measure development. History of foreign aid; main actors and characteristics of official development assistance. Theoretical and empirical impact of aid with regard to economic growth and governance. Benefits and problems associated with aid.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
| UG Reqs: WAY-SI, GER:EC-GlobalCom
OSPCPTWN 32: Learning, Development, and Social Change: Service Learning in the Contemporary South African Contex-
Adult learning and its role in community social action; development; service learning. Micro contexts of people's daily lives and experiences in the context of an emergent democracy; understanding possibilities of community action and mobilisation for social change. Service in a historically marginalised community near Cape Town to understand realities of everyday life in informal settlements, to engage with education in a developmental context, and to gain insight into sociopolitical factors that shape social action and learning.
Terms: Win, Spr
| Units: 5
| UG Reqs: GER:EC-GlobalCom, GER:DB-SocSci, WAY-EDP
Instructors:
McMillan, J. (PI)
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