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4.00 Credits
(formerly HIS 251) (same as AAS 207) Survey of ancient and medieval African history through the eyes of princesses, archaeologists, peasants, religious leaders, storytellers, and women. While the course reconstructs the great civilizations of ancient Africa-Egypt, Zimbabwe, Mali, and others-it is not primarily focused on kings and leaders. Rather, the course explore how ordinary Africans ate, relaxed, worshiped, and organized their personal and political lives.
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4.00 Credits
(same as AAS 208) This course explores African history from 1800 up to the present. Using case studies, it will examine how wide-ranging social, political, and economic processes-the slave trade, colonial rule, African nationalism, independence, and new understandings of women's rights-changed local people's lives.
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4.00 Credits
Survey of the politics of culture in colonial-era and apartheid South Africa. It begins by studying the legal, religious, sexual and political history of colonialism, then delves into the history of African popular culture. How miners, beer brewers, women, musicians, gangsters, and journalists created cultures of resistance is an enduring theme. In the second half of the semester, students will create research papers about topics in South African history.
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4.00 Credits
East Africa is probably the most politically, ecologically, and religiously diverse place on earth. This course compares different East African histories. It explores three thematic questions: 1) Faced with East Africa's inherent diversity of thought, how did African innovators create wider political communities? 2) How far did Arab elites dominate political life in the towns along the Indian Ocean coast, and how did African slaves, workmen, and other non-elites challenge their Arab overlords? 3) How did rural peasant communities reformulate their own political thought to deal with a changing world? Students will create research papers about topics in East African history.
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4.00 Credits
West African history through the lens of slavery. It studies the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on African political life during the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. It also explores indigenous forms of inequality, documenting how African social and political hierarchies were transformed out of their interaction with the Atlantic commerce.
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4.00 Credits
An exploration of aspects of Africa's religious and political history. Topics include: Africans and the making of African Christianity; African Traditional Religion and its history; sorcery and political critique in post-colonial Africa; and Islam in Africa. Students will create research papers about Africa's history of religion.
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4.00 Credits
The course studies the economic, political, and cultural developments of modern Latin American nations and Latin American people's identity, with particular attention to their relation with -and within- the US.
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4.00 Credits
(same as INT 364) This course takes a long historical, sociological, economic, and political view of the Caribbean Basin. It examines the origins of the region as a unique cultural and political space defined by the interplay between the indigenous inhabitants, African Slaves, Asian immigrants, European empires (Spanish, Dutch, French, and English), and American hegemony. The course explains the Caribbean Basin as a dynamic historical space defined by the diversity of its inhabitants, tensions between cultures, relationship to its past, and efforts to fit into an expanding culture of global capitalism.
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4.00 Credits
Topics having to do with North America or the United States. This course may be repeated for credit when the topic changes.
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4.00 Credits
(Same as POL 365) An examination of the political theories, people, social and economic forces, events, and political context that influenced the framing and ratification of the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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