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3.00 Credits
Mshomba. Offered through Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Society. Class of 2009 & prior only. Staff. This survey course focuses on African Religous culture in Nigeria and in the African Diaspora. Students will be introduced to the ritual and philosophical foundations of Yoruba religion and culture. This course emphasizes the incorporative nature and heterogeneity of problematize essentialisms and stereotypes about these religious systems by paying close attention to the ethnographic details, historical contexts, philosophical underpinnings, and political developments of each religion in their region. Traditions we will be exploring are: Ifa Divination in Nigeria and Benin; Santeria and Regla de Ocha in Cuba and the United States; Vodoun in Haiti; Shango in Trinidad; Candomble and Umbanda in Brazil; and the American Yoruba Movement in the United States. Course readings will provide a theoretical and informative basis for dealing with the concepts of syncretism, creolization, and ethnicity.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Nwadiora. This course will take the form of an introductory seminar designed to provide undergraduate students an overview of significant themes and issues focusing on the historical, political and cultural relationships between Africans and their descendants abroad. It will encompass: a review of different historical periods and geographical locations, from Ancient Egypt to modern American, Caribbean and African states; a critical evaluation of social movements and theories that have developed in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries among scholars of different origins in their attempt to reconstruct Africa as a center and the Diaspora as a specific cultural space; and, an exploration of representations of Africa and the Diaspora in canonical literary works and other forms of fiction like the visual arts.
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Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Blakely. African art is a rich and varied field of study encompassing visual arts and architecture of ancient cultures, regional artistic traditions of diverse peoples in more recent precolonial and colonial times, and contemporary artists, both self-taught and formally trained. The principal goals of this course are to help students to appreciate the scope of this field while also gaining in-depth understanding of particular African artistic traditions, artists, and artworks within specific historical and cultural contexts. Topics to be considered include persistent misconceptions about African art; indigenous African aesthetics; semiotics of African visual signs and sign systems; roles of "traditional artists" in African societies; gender issues in art production, representation, and performance; historical contacts and cultural interaction; spiritual, therapeutic, and political uses of art; and interrelations of visual art with verbal and kinesthetic expression.
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3.00 Credits
Awoyale. Offered through Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Awoyale. Offered through Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Moudileno. This class will explore the African city as a site of colonial and postcolonial exchanges by way of twentieth-century European and African representations. We will examine, on the one hand, the status of the urban located in Africa in European works from the colonial period (fiction and non-ficiton including Gide, Leiris, Londres). On the other hand, we will study Africans, focusing on the dreams and transformations involved in the passage from the village to the city to the metropole. Essays from history, sociology, urban studies and postcolonial theory will supplement the study of the primary texts. All readings, class discussions and written assignments in French.
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3.00 Credits
Distribution Course in Arts & Letters. Class of 2009 & prior only. Barnard.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. Offered through Penn Language Center.
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3.00 Credits
Wegner. Covers principal aspects of ancient Egyptian culture (enviornment, urbanisma, religion, technology, etc.) with special focus on archaeological data; includes study of University Museum artifacts.
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