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Fall quarter 2015 courses

fall 2015 COURSES IN AFRICAN STUDIES

AFRICAST 115: South African Encounters (AFRICAAM 115); Mon 6:00 PM - 7:20 PM at 50-52H with Parker, G.

AFRICAST 300: Contemporary Issues in African Studies; Mon, Wed 12:30 PM - 1:20 PM at Encina West 202 with Hubbard, L.

AFRICAST 301A: The Dynamics of Change in Africa (HISTORY 246/346, POLISCI 246P/346P); Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at Lathrop 292 with Roberts, R.

ANTHRO 140: Ethnography of Africa; Fri 9:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 40-41J with Malkki, L.

HISTORY 47/147: History of South Africa (AFRICAAM 47/147); Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 200-002 with Campbell, J.

HISTORY 48/148: The Egyptians (AFRICAAM 30, CLASSICS 82); Tue, Thu 9:30 AM - 10:20 AM at 200-034 with Austin, A.

HISTORY 245/345: Violence and Identity in the African Great Lakes Region; Mon, Wed 3:00 PM - 4:20 PM at 260-004 with Rosenthal, J.

ILAC 219: Lusophone African Literature; Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 200-217 with Barletta, V.; Librandi Rocha, M.

POLISCI 146A: African Politics (AFRICAAM 146A); Tue, Thu 9:30 AM - 11:20 AM at Lathrop 299 with Laitin, D.

fall 2015 comparative related courses

ANTHRO 138/238: Medical Ethics in a Global World: Examining Race, Difference and Power in the Research Enterprise (CSRE 138); Mon, Wed 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM at 380-381T with Fullwiley, D.

ANTHRO 301: History of Anthropological Theory, Culture and Society; Tue 1:30 PM - 4:20 PM at 40-41J with Ferguson, J.

ANTHRO 345A: Race and Power: The Making of Human Difference in History, Biology and Capital; Wed 2:30 PM - 5:20 PM at 40-41J with Fullwiley, D.

CEE 70N: Water, Public Health, and Engineering; Tue, Thu 1:30 PM - 2:50 PM with Davis, J.

COMPLIT 121: Poems, Poetry, Worlds; Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 100-101K with Barletta, V.

CS 546: Seminar on Liberation Technologies; Thu 4:30 PM - 6:20 PM at 160-124 with Diamond, L.; Goel, A.

ECON 315: Development Workshop; Mon 1:30 PM - 3:20 PM at the GSB with Chandrasekhar, A.; Donaldson, D.; Dupas, P.; Morten, M.; Persson, P.

EDUC 202: Introduction to Comparative and International Education; Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at School of Education 206 with Carnoy, M.

EDUC 377C: Strategic Philanthropy; Fri 8:30 AM - 11:20 AM at GSB Class of 1968 105 with Arrillaga, L.

HUMBIO 129: Critical Issues in International Women's Health (FEMGEN 129); Tue, Thu 10:30 AM - 11:50 AM at 200-305 with Murray, A.

IPS 210: The Politics of International Humanitarian Action; Tue 3:00 PM - 5:50 PM at 260-244 with Morris, E.

*LAW 414P: Policy Practicum: Impact Investing In Developing Countries: Legal Institutions and Work-Arounds; Brest, P.

*LAW 783: Lawyering and Leading in Transitional Societies; Fri 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM with Liu, T.

MED 232: Discussions in Global Health; Tue 5:30 PM - 7:20 PM at MSOBX303 with Barry, M.; Rhines, A.

OSPBEIJ 67: China-Africa and Middle East Relations; Course taught abroad in Beijing.

POLISCI 114D/314D: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (INTNLREL 114D, IPS 230); Mon, Wed 10:30 AM - 12:20 PM at 200-305 with Fukuyama, F.

*Students interested in taking a Law School class must must seek approval from the instructor and submit the "Non-Law Student Course Add Request Form" to the Law School Registrar's Office.

FALL 2015 AFRICAN LANGUAGE courses

AMELANG 100A: Beginning Amharic, First Quarter; Tesfamariam, I.

AMELANG 221A: Beginning Tigrigna, first quarter; Tesfamariam, I.

AMELANG 153A: First-Year Twi, First Quarter; Assenyoh, K.

AMELANG 132A: First-Year Igbo, First Quarter; Ajaelo, G.

AMELANG 187A: First-Year Yoruba, First Quarter; Fashokun, A.

AMELANG 106A: First-Year Swahili, First Quarter; Mukoma, S.

AMELANG 70B: Accelerated First-Year Swahili Part 2; Mukoma, S.

AMELANG 71A: Accelerated Second-Year Swahili, Part 1; Mukoma, S.

AMELANG 108A: Third-Year Swahili, First Quarter; Mukoma, S.

 

SAMPLE OF AFRICAST AND RELATED COURSES

COURSES IN AFRICAN STUDIES

AFRICAST 109/209: Running While Others Walk: African Perspectives on Development

AFRICAST 112/212: AIDS, Literacy, and Land: Foreign Aid and Development in Africa

AFRICAST 115: South African Encounters

AFRICAST 135/235: Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems

AFRICAST 138/238: Conflict and Reconciliation in Africa: International Intervention

AFRICAST 142: Challenging the Status Quo: Social Entrepreneurs Advancing Democracy, Development and Justice

AFRICAST 300: Contemporary Issues in African Studies

AFRICAST 301A: The Dynamics of Change in Africa

Related Courses from Other Departments

AFRICAAM 47: History of South Africa

AFRICAAM 133: Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean

AFRICAAM 145B: Africa in the 20th Century

AMELANG 100A: Beginning Amharic, First Quarter

AMELANG 106A: First-Year Swahili, First Quarter

AMELANG 114A: Beginning Afrikaans, First Quarter

AMELANG 132A: First-Year Igbo, First Quarter

AMELANG 136A: First-Year Xhosa, First Quarter

AMELANG 153A: First-Year Twi, First Quarter

AMELANG 156A: First-Year Zulu, First Quarter

AMELANG 180A: First-Year Kinyarwanda, First-Quarter

AMELANG 187A: First-Year Yoruba, First Quarter

ANTHRO 1/201: Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology

ANTHRO 13A: Archaeology and Heritage of Muslim Societies

ANTHRO 140: Ethnography of Africa

ANTHRO 141B: The Anthropology of Bits and Bytes: Digital Media in the Developing World

ANTHRO 346: The Social Imagination

ANTHRO 353: Landscape

ANTHRO 372: Urban Ecologies

CEE 265D: Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries

COMPLIT 229: Literature of Global Health

CS 546: Seminar on Liberation Technologies

DANCE 24: Dancing Power and Culture in the Black Atlantic

ECON 118: Development Economics

ECON 214: Development Economics I

ECON 215: Development Economics II

ECON 315: Development Workshop

EDUC 202: Introduction to Comparative and International Education

EDUC 377C: Strategic Philanthropy

FINANCE 381: Private Equity in Frontier Markets: Creating a New Investible Asset Class

HISTORY 48Q: South Africa: Contested Transitions

HISTORY 106A: Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

HISTORY 146: History of Humanitarian Aid in sub-Saharan Africa

HISTORY 248S/448A: Colonial States and African Societies, Part I

HISTORY 249S/448B: Colonial States and African Societies, Part II

HISTORY 283/383: The New Global Economy, Oil and Origins of the Arab Spring

HISTORY 345B: African Encounters with Colonialism

HUMBIO 129: Critical Issues in International Women’s Health

IPS 213: International Mediation and Civil Wars

LAWGEN 111Q: Introduction to International Human Rights

MED 232: Discussions in Global Health

MUSIC 186C/286C: Music and the Postcolonial World

OSPBEIJ 67: China-Africa and Middle East Relations

OSPCPTWN 16: South Africa Sites of Memory

OSPCPTWN 17: Western Cape Sites of Memory

OSPCPTWN 18: Xhosa Language and Culture

OSPCPTWN 22: Preparation for Community-Based Research in Community Health and Development

OSPCPTWN 24A: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development

OSPCPTWN 24B: Targeted Research Project in Community Health and Development

OSPCPTWN 31: Political Economy of Foreign Aid

OSPCPTWN 32: Service, Citizenship, and Social Change: Service Learning in the Contemporary South African Context

OSPCPTWN 33: Southern Africa: from Liberation Struggles to Region-Building

OSPCPTWN 36: The Archaeology of Southern African Hunter Gatherers

OSPCPTWN 38: Genocide: African Experiences

OSPCPTWN 43: Public and Community Health in Sub-Saharan Africa

OSPCPTWN 44: Negotiating Home, Citizenship and the South African City

OSPCPTWN 49: Water in South Africa: Human Right, Public Trust, or Market Commodity?

OSPCPTWN 50: [Independent Study] Conservation & Resources in Sub-Saharan Africa

OSPCPTWN 51: Urban Design and Development: Opportunities and Limitations of WDCCT 2014

OSPCPTWN 54: Monuments and Memory

OSPCPTWN 55: Arts of Change

OSPCPTWN 56: HIV Policy Issues and Models

OSPCPTWN 57: Directed Study in Health Systems and Policy

OSPCPTWN 58: Racism, Colonialism and Genocide

POLISCI 146A: African Politics

POLISCI 242A: Why is Africa Poor?

POLISCI 314D: Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law

POLISCI 337T: Designing Liberation Technology

SURG 150/250: Global Humanitarian Medicine

THINK 42: Thinking through Africa: Perspectives in Wealth, Well-Being, and Development