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4.00 Credits
Rarely have the dreams of a nation been so bound to an individual as with Nelson Mandela and South Africa. Using Mandela’s ninety-two year life-span as a framework, this course will follow the political, social, and cultural changes that have swept South Africa in a single lifetime. From the consolidation of a white supremacist government, through the nightmare of Apartheid, and into the hope of a New South Africa, this class will explore the major themes of African nationalism, post-colonialism, Marxist revolution, civil disobedience, third-world development, and international human rights.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the conditions that created the guerilla movements, the way the rebels and government forces clashed in the air, cities, and jungles, and how the struggles reshaped the history of the region and its position in the global economy before and after the Cold War.
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4.00 Credits
This course examines programs carried out by governments, multilateral organizations, and non governmental organizations to deal with "public problems" connected to population: communicable diseases such as TB, malaria and HIV/AIDS; famine prevention and relief; child survival, especially malnutrition and infant diarrheal disease; safe motherhood; teen pregnancy; contraception, and abortion.
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2.00 Credits
This course will focus on dances that pertain to the life-cycle of women. Students will experience dances that celebrate rites of passage such as coming of age, circumcision, marriage, and childbirth. Discussion will center around gender roles in the performance ensemble and the correlation of performance representations with the traditional lifestyle. Students will examine the cultural factors that contribute to the articulation of gender roles in post-colonial West Africa and the relationship of those roles to the performance ensemble. This course will be cross-listed with Frederick Douglass Institute for African and African-American Studies and Women’s Studies for the Spring 2011 semester.
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4.00 Credits
This course identifies and discusses a selection of texts considered crucial for the understanding of the black experience from 1610 to the present.
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4.00 Credits
After a discussion of the Moynihan Report controversy and an assessment of the literature on the black family, the readings will investigate why and how stable black families were encouraged, and how they developed under slavery. The impact of factors such as economics, politics, religion, gender, medicine, and the proximity of free families, on the structure of the black family will be given special attention. In this way, the structure of the slave family on the eve of Emancipation, and its preparedness for freedom, will be tested and assessed. Students will be encouraged to identify persistent links between the "history" of slavery and the black family, and the development of social policy.
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4.00 Credits
Students will draw upon their exposure to the theory methods of AAS to produce an interdisciplinary research paper on a topic of their own choosing. Open only to senior majors. Permission of Department required.
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0.00 Credits
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0.00 Credits
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4.00 Credits
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