printer friendly pageHISTORY 345A: Africa in the Era of the Slave Trade
The slave trade, including the trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean, and trans-Atlantic trades, constituted nearly a millennium of interaction with the wider world and set in motion transformations in African societies, polities, and cultures. Topics include the debates about slavery in Africa, the impact of the slave trade on African societies, state formation, economic change, religious change, and household change in the period before the scramble for Africa in the late 19th century.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Roberts, R. (PI)
HISTORY 346F: Women in African history, Gender in Herstory
The history of African nationalism throughout the twentieth century is still largely the history of male leaders. With few prominent exceptions, the stories of influential women who participated in politics are largely untold. This course argues for the case of women within the canon of transformative African leaders. Prominent women did exist, and they made significant contributions to their countries¿ political cultures. We will focus on female political and community activists, on religious leaders, on scholars and on writers.
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Cabrita, J. (PI)
HISTORY 348: Religion, Radicalization and Media in Africa since 1945 (AFRICAST 248, AFRICAST 348, HISTORY 248, RELIGST 230X, RELIGST 330X)
What are the paths to religious radicalization, and what role have media- new and old- played in these conversion journeys? We examine how Pentecostal Christians and Reformist Muslims in countries such as South Africa, Nigeria, Sudan, and Ethiopia have used multiple media forms- newspapers, cell phones, TV, radio, and the internet- to gain new converts, contest the authority of colonial and post-colonial states, construct transnational communities, and position themselves as key political players.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
Instructors:
Cabrita, J. (PI)
HISTORY 349: Bodies, Technologies, and Natures in Africa (AFRICAST 249, ANTHRO 348B)
This interdisciplinary course explores how modern African histories, bodies, and natures have been entangled with technological activities. Viewing Africans as experts and innovators, we consider how technologies have mediated, represented, or performed power in African societies. Topics include infrastructure, extraction, medicine, weapons, communications, sanitation, and more. Themes woven through the course include citizenship, mobility, labor, bricolage, in/formal economies, and technopolitical geographies, among others. Readings draw from history, anthropology, geography, and social/cultural theory.
Last offered: Winter 2018
HISTORY 351A: Core in American History, Part I
May be repeated for credit.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Rakove, J. (PI)
HISTORY 351B: Core in American History, Part II
Last offered: Autumn 2018
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351C: Core in American History, Part III
Terms: Win
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Campbell, J. (PI)
HISTORY 351D: Core in American History, Part IV
May be repeated once for credit.
Last offered: Winter 2019
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
HISTORY 351F: Core in American History, Part VI
Required of all first-year Ph.D. students in U.S. History.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4-5
| Repeatable
2 times
(up to 10 units total)
Instructors:
Chang, G. (PI)
HISTORY 352B: History of American Law (HISTORY 152)
(Formerly
Law 318. Now
Law 3504.) This course examines the growth and development of American legal institutions with particular attention to crime and punishment, slavery and race relations, the role of law in developing the economy, and the place of lawyers in American society, from colonial times to the present. Special Instructions: Any student may write a paper in lieu of the final exam with consent of instructor. After the term begins, students accepted into the course can transfer from section (01) into section (02), which meets the R requirement, with consent of the instructor. Elements used in grading: Final exam or paper. Automatic grading penalty waived for writers. Cross-listed with History (
HISTORY 152 Consent of instructor required) & (
HISTORY 352B).
Terms: Win
| Units: 5
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