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4.00 Credits
This seminar explores historical, theoretical, methodological, and conceptual issues central to the study of indigenous religions of the world. It examines the critique of indigeneity and explores emerging topics about the role that religion plays in indigenous peoples' lives, communities, and societies. Special topics will explore issues related to land, environment, conversion, health, the state, gender, aggression, violence, justice, and human rights. The seminar examines the interface of indigenous religions and modernity, colonial and postcolonial conditions, and local and global forces that shape the practices of indigenous traditions in various regions of the world.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores several socially transforming components of genetics research that hold simultaneously liberating and constraining possibilities for populations and publics, both locally and globally. Through interviews, fieldwork, and participant observation (in both science and ethics fields), students will assess how the technological projects covered in the course differentially implicate national, racial, gendered, and economic groups. Special attention will be given to genetic research ethics when subject populations are Africans and African-Americans.
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4.00 Credits
This course takes up key issues in the history of ancient Africa as framed principally around divergent forms of visual culture. In addition to exploring core writings and theoretical issues, students also will explore underlying interrelationships between localities, regions, and more broadly continental forms and events as seen through the interplay of geography, socio-economics, and cultural dynamics.
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4.00 Credits
Examines African responses to the imposition of colonial rule and to the impact of the post-colonial period in the countries of Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, and Rwanda. Themes include initial African resistance to colonial rule, organized protests and violent rebellion against colonial institutions, and post-colonial struggles for power in the region. Case studies include popular rebellion in Zanzibar, the Mau Mau Emergency, the regime of Idi Amin, and the Rwandan genocide.
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4.00 Credits
This course is a basic introduction to the history and phenomenology of traditional religions of the African peoples. Using diverse methodological and theoretical approaches, the course will explore various forms of experiences and practices that provide a deep understanding and appreciation of the sacred meaning of African existence: myth, ritual arts, and symbols selected from West, East, Central, and Southern Africa.
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4.00 Credits
The seminar examines the historical development of religion in Nigeria and explores its intersection with ethnic identity, culture, and society in pre-colonial, colonial, and contemporary periods. The course provides an understanding of various cultural tradition, historical events, and social forces that have shaped Nigeria's religious express. Many topical issues will be explored such as indigenous religious culture, Christian and Muslim identities, civil religion, and civil society and democratization, as well as religion and politics in present-day Nigeria.
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to African languages and cultures. Explores language use by sub-Saharan Africans to understand, organize, and transmit indigenous knowledge to successive generations. Language serves as a road map to understanding how social, political, and economic institutions and processes develop: from kinship structures, the evolution of political offices, trade relations, to the transfer of environmental knowledge.
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4.00 Credits
Individualized study of an African language at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy. Any language not listed as a course is taught under this number.
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4.00 Credits
Individualized study of Amharic at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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4.00 Credits
Individualized study of Bamanakan at the elementary, intermediate, and advanced levels. Contact hours with language coach. Emphasis on literacy.
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