Course Description The global city in Africa has emerged as a spatial and social form that drives profound human, cultural, economic and political changes on the continent. As a nexus of crisis and renewal, it …
Course Spotlights
Course Spotlight: Human Rights and Education
Course Description This class will explore key questions related to global education and human rights, from the abstract to the practical, and the individual to the global levels. It will start by asking the big …
Course Spotlight: Con Artists in Arabic
Course Description If pulling off a great prank is a challenge, then profiting from it is an art. Arabic literature, comics, films, and television love to showcase the challenge and the art itself—that’s the topic …
Course Spotlight: Introduction to International Development Education
Course Description The dawn of the new millennium was marked by a historic, global resolve to “expand hope and opportunity for people around the world” – in particular, through global commitments to development and education. …
Course Spotlight: Political Ethnography – The Politics of Daily Life
Course Description This graduate seminar will focus on the politics of the quotidian, the small events, phenomena, attitudes, and emotions of daily life, with the assumption that however apolitical they might seem to be on …
Course Spotlight: Literary Ethnography
Course Description This graduate-level methods seminar is an intensive introduction to reading and writing “new ethnographies”—what H. L. Goodall calls an “emerging, alternative style of qualitative writing” that “combines the personal and the professional, … …
Course Spotlight: Health, Healing, and Science in Africa
Course Description Theoretical perspectives from Science and Technology Studies have become increasingly influential in the study of health in Africa in recent years. The scholarly turn toward bio-politics and the examination of vernacular science has …
Course Spotlight: Dissident Women Voices from the Middle East and North Africa
Course Description If dissidence is broadly defined as a manifest opposition with an established institution, dogma, genre or tradition, it also implies innovation and originality. The legacies of colonialism, the repressive nature of post-independence regimes, …
Course Spotlight: Seminar in Modern African Literature – Melodrama
Course Description This course explores the epistemological foundations and critical applications of the concept of melodrama, with particular emphasis on African literature and screen media. In ways that are increasingly amenable to cultural studies analysis, …
Course Spotlight: First Semester Hausa
Course Description Hausa is a Chadic language (a branch of the Afro-Asiatic family) spoken by more than 34 million people in parts of Nigeria, Niger, and Chad, and as a trade language by another 18 …