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  • AFRC 540: Elementary Amharic I

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Wogayehu. Offered through the Penn Language Center. An introductory course for students with no previous knowledge of Amharic. Amharic belongs tothe southern branch of Hemeto-Semitic languages which is also referred to as "Afrasian." Amharic is the official language of ethiopia and is spoken by 14 million native Amharas and by approximately 19 million of the other ethnic groups in Ethiopia. The goals of this course are to introduce students to the culture, customs, and traditions of the Amharas. Students will develop communicative skills through listening, speaking, reading and writing.
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  • AFRC 541: Elementary Amharic II

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Wogayehu. Offered through the Penn Language Center. Continuation of Elementary Amharic I. Amharic belongs to the southern branch of Hemeto-Semitic languages, which is also referred to as "Afrasian." Amharic is the official language of Ethiopia and is spoken by 14 million native Amharas and by approximately 18 million of the other groups of Ethopia. This course continues to introduce basic grammar, vocabulary, and the reading and writing of Amharic to new speakers. (AFRC242, AFST242, AFST543, NELC483) Intermediate Amharic I. (A) Wogayehu. Offered through the Penn Language Center.
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  • AFST 018: Popular Culture in Africa

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Barnes. Freshman Seminar. This course concentrates on popular culture in sub-Saharan Africa. It examines the way people reflect on and represent various aspects and issues in their daily lives, in public media, and through a diverse range of performative and creative outlets. It explores the way cultural traditions are created, promulgated, and perpetuated. It looks at the way popular culture deals with pleasure and pain; identitity, difference, and diversity; wealth and power; modernity and history; gender relations; suppression, resistance, and violence; and local versus global processes. In short, popular culture will serve as a window through which to observe contemporary life.
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  • AFST 050: World Musics and Cultures

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Arts & Letters Sector. All Classes. Muller. Draws on repertories of various societies from Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas to examine relations between aesthetic productions and social processes. We investigate musical sounds, cultural logics informing those sounds, and social strategies of performance. Topics may include indigenous music theories, music and social organization, symbolic expressions and musical meaning, gender, religion, and social change.
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  • AFST 062: Land of the Pharaohs

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Silverman, Wegner. This course provides an introduction to the society, culture and history of ancient Egypt. The objective of the course is to provide an understanding of how ancient Egypt emerged as one of the most successful and long-lived civilizations in world history.
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  • AFST 071: Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This course will serve as an introduction to a particularly rich arena of literature in English. It will also help students to begin to understand many of the racial subtexts underlying the culture wars in America, where too often in the full glare of cameras, an anguished voice informs the audience that "as an African, I cannot expect justice in this America." One of the things at work here is the assumption of a common Africa diasporic identity -- understood as an excluded, marginalized subtext of identity in the new world. But why is Africa being involed here What does "Africa" mean in this new world context What is the larger global context of these assumptions about "Africa" and what is its history Does the term "Africa" itself have a history What is "African literature " This course, therefore, will also help students not only to ask fundamental questions about identity but also to understand identity as a moving and dynamic construct. How, for example, does "Africa" travel to South America, to the Caribbean Archipelago, and to Europe See the English Department's website at www.english.upenn.edu for a description of the current offerings.
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  • AFST 075: Africa Before 1800

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Babou, Cassanelli. Survey of major themes and issues in African history before 1800. Topics include: early civilizations, African kingdoms and empires, population movements, the spread of Islam, the slave trade era. Also, emphasis on how historians use archaeology, linguistics, and oral traditions to reconstruct Africa's early history.
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  • AFST 076: Africa Since 1800

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Cassanelli. Survey of major themes, events, and personalities in African history from the early nineteenth century through the 1960s. Topics include abolition of the slave trade, European imperialism, impact of colonial rule, African resistance, religious and cultural movements, rise of naturalism and pan-Africanism, issues of ethnicity and "tribalism" in modern Africa.
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  • AFST 107: Freshman Seminar:World after 1800

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Hist & Tradition. Class of 2009 & prior only. Babou.
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  • AFST 135: Law & Society

    3.00 Credits
    University of Pennsylvania

    Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Fetni. After introducing students to the major theoretical concepts concerning law and society, significanat controversial societal issues that deal with law and the legal systems both domestically and internationally will be examined. Class discussions will focus on issues involving civil liberties, the organization of courts, legislatures, the legal profession and administrative agencies. Although the focus will be on law in the United States, law and society in other countries of Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America will be covered in a comparative context. Readings include research reports, statutes and cases.
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