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Social ecological framework for understanding different types of violence against women; Centre for Diseases' Four Steps approach to understanding and responding to a public health problem. Different types of violence against women in different contexts and settings as seen in international and South African literature and local research findings. Extent and nature of violence against women as a public health issue as seen in its magnitude and health impact on individuals, families and communities. Different prevention strategies including bystander interventions and partnerships with men explored through oral presentations, case study analysis and active participation.

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.

This class will use the idiom of photography to scrutinize the natural history and culture of Cape Town. We will discuss the rhetoric of photography, as well as photographic composition, syntax, grammar and style. We will use individual pictures as the starting point for scholarly investigations of what makes Cape Town unique both in terms of its nature and its culture. Class assignments will consist of a series of weekly presentations by each student, five presentation write-ups, weekly contributions to the class blog and the class Twitter account, active participation both in-class and online including responses to blog posts, a final exam, a class exhibit, and a complete dossier of each student's work. The presentations write-ups will include photographic and written essays, including scholarly references, on specific topics motivated by what the students have observed. Individual classes will explore specific themes such as Table Mountain, Robben Island, the townships, the history of South Africa, the Cape Floristic Region, South African fauna, local markets, food of South Africa, African penguins, and other birds of South Africa. Enrollment is limited.

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.

Directed study projects focusing on some aspect of health systems and policy in the Southern African context. Example topics include analysis of: local HIV control policies; the South African health care system; health care delivery patterns; investments in health infrastructure as an enabler of health care delivery; health systems strengthening and concomitant improvements in population health; and social networks and influences in disease risk. Students will be expected to write an in-depth term paper that carefully analyzes the problem under consideration. Analyses that include the development of mathematical or analytical models are encouraged.

Introduction to the social and historical phenomenon of genocide, contextualized within the contours of world history as well as the histories of European colonialism and Western racist thought from the start of European colonial expansion in the fifteenth century to the twentieth century. Global comparative perspective focusing on southern African, North American and Australian case studies. Theoretical engagement with the concept of genocide and approaches to the subject. In addition to racism and colonialism, themes include: roles of settler regimes; development of the global economy; nationalism in the making of these genocides.

This course examines Issues surrounding mediation and implementation of peace agreements, peacekeeping, refugee management, and justice and accountability in Africa's recent civil wars. This course uses several case studies of wars and peace processes to examine what is needed to end wars and build peace in Africa. The course will examine successful and failed mediation of wars by African diplomats, American and European diplomats, and international organizations. It will compare and contrast peace processes that successfully brought wars to an end with those that failed to bring peace, and in some cases brought dramatic escalation.

Politics of multilingualism, diversity and hip-hop identity performances and practices in a transforming South Africa. How far has social change been realized given that South Africa's citizens still grapple with racial, ethnic, cultural and cultural marginalization and exploitation?

Independent study in community health. Topics may include major health issues in sub-saharan Africa; social and behavioral determinants of health; stress and health. Topics addressed through guided readings and interviews with relevant local stakeholders. Weekly meetings to discuss issues and progress.