| source Yale (X) |
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department Kiswahili (X) |
Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 22) 12/12/2009 S 2.00 Skills L1 Permission of instructor required Beginning instruction in an African language other than those regularly offered. Courses offered depend on availability of instructors. Methodology and materials vary with the language studied.
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MW 9.00-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Survey of the archaeological evidence for the original contributions of the African continent to the human condition. The unresolved issues of African pre-history, from the time of the first hominids, through the development of food production and metallurgy, to the rise of states and cities.
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MW 2.30-3.45 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So A discussion of African states that avoids the pitfall of characterizing them as failed, weak, fragile, or war-torn. Identification of what the states are, how they operate, and how they negotiate varying degrees of legitimacy and authority with the populations they govern.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills L5 Areas Hu Permission of instructor required A comprehensive survey of literature written in French from sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. The context of French colonialism and its institutions; local and global culture; independence and the postcolonial era. Authors include Senghor, Césaire, Sembène (including film), Kourouma, Bâ, Belaya, Condé, and Lopes.
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MW 10.30-11.20 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 33) 12/18/2009 F 9.00 Areas Hu The history of southern Africa from c. 700 to the 1990s. Principal focus on South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Readings in primary sources.
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T 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Review of attempts by anthropologists to define and understand key features of the new South Africa. Topics include bridewealth and polygamy, Christian churches, ethnic identities, the HIV/AIDS pandemic, migrant labor, social movements, witchcraft, and urban life. Attention to the relationship between politics and anthropology.
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W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required Study of transnational institutions and practices, with a focus on globalized religious movements in the late twentieth century. The rise and expansion of transnational institutions and faith-based practices involved in the development of new transnational religious alliances. Ways that new religious movements are facilitated by the expansion of global formations; how these forces of change are leading to new sociopolitical, economic, and cultural landscapes.
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TTh 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So The emergence and evolution of various forms of protest, including strikes, demonstrations, and revolutions. Case studies include the civil rights movement, the women's movement in the United States, and social movements in Central America, South Africa, and elsewhere. Theoretical approaches range from ethnographic to mathematical models.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The impact of and responses to the AIDS pandemic in Africa examined from a comparative perspective. Focus on South and southern Africa.
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W 3.30-5.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination The rise of nationalism in the Maghreb (or Arab West) and Mashriq (or Arab East). Introduction to major debates about nationalism; the influence of transnational (pan-Islamic and pan-Arab) ideologies, ethnicity, gender, and religion. Case studies from North Africa (Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia) and the Middle East (Syria/Lebanon, Jordan, and Iraq).
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MW 9.25-10.15 Fall 2009 Final exam scheduled (Group 32) 12/12/2009 S 9.00 Areas So The establishment and use of political power in selected countries of tropical Africa. The political role of ethnic and class cleavages, military coups, and the relation between politics and economic development.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Particularities of the historical experiences of African women, and ways that gender has been defined in an African context. Attention to precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. Masculinity, sexuality, and the representation of African women.
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T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required The evolution and character of class stratification and racial inequalities in South Africa, Brazil, and the United States. Twentieth-century analyses of the three societies, including studies of caste and their critiques by Marxist theory. Contemporary issues such as urban inequalities, middle classes and underclasses, identity, and political mobilization.
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W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Junior Seminar Permission of instructor required Disciplinary and interdisciplinary research methodologies in African studies, with emphasis on field methods and archival research in the social sciences and humanities. Research methodologies are compared by studying recent works in African studies.
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T 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas So Permission of instructor required A study of development assistance, the dominant feature of the political economies of some of the world's poorest countries. The political and economic impact of aid in developing countries. The potential of a series of proposals to make aid a more effective instrument of development.
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TTh 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Areas Hu Permission of instructor required Meets during reading period A practical and theoretical study of the traditional dances of Africa, focusing on those of Burkina Faso and their contemporary manifestations. Emphasis on rhythm, kinesthetic form, and gestural expression. The fusion of modern European dance and traditional African dance.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent research under the direction of a faculty member in the program on a special topic in African Studies not covered in other courses. Permission of the director of undergraduate studies and of the instructor directing the research is required. A proposal signed by the instructor must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies by the end of the second week of classes. The instructor meets with the student regularly, typically for an hour a week, and the student writes a final paper or a series of short essays. Either term or both terms may be elected.
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W 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 No regular final examination Skills WR Areas Hu Permission of instructor required The impact of Islam on state and society, and the encounters of Muslim Africans first with non-Muslim societies in Africa and then with the modern West in the colonial and postcolonial periods. Focus on Muslim religious attitudes and responses to the secular national state and to the Western tradition of the separation of church and state.
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1 HTBA Fall 2009 No regular final examination Permission of instructor required Independent research on the senior essay. The senior essay form must be submitted to the director of undergraduate studies by the end of the second week of classes. The senior essay should be completed according to the following schedule: (1) end of the sixth week of classes: a rough draft of the entire essay; (2) end of the last week of classes (fall term) or three weeks before the end of classes (spring term): two copies of the final version of the essay.
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AFST 501 01 (10186) /AFST401 W 1.30-3.20 Fall 2009 This course considers disciplinary and interdisciplinary research methodologies in African studies. The focus of the course is on field methods and archival research in the social sciences and humanities. Topics include use of African studies and disciplinary sources (including bibliographical databases and African studies archives), research design, interviewing, survey methods, analysis of sources, and the development of databases and research collections.
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AFST 560 01 (14051) /EP&E365/INTS347/PLSC417/AFST360 T 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009
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AFST 574 01 (10187) /ANTH574 Th 2.30-4.20 Fall 2009 This course explores changes in the field of political and legal anthropology. The course begins with an exploration of some of the key texts in the field and moves to explore the conceptual, theoretical, and methodological shifts over the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.
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AFST 598 01 (10189) /AFST110 Fall 2009 Credit/Year Only Beginning instruction in an African language other than those regularly offered. Courses offered depend on availability of instructors. Methodology and materials vary with the language studied. Students may also study an African language through the noncredit Directed Independent Language Study program. Permission of instructor required.
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AFST 650 01 (10190) HTBA Fall 2009 By arrangement with faculty. After AFST 599.
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AFST 660 01 (10191) HTBA Fall 2009 By arrangement with faculty. After AFST 650.
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