Course Description This new graduate seminar provides a setting for participants to consider Africa – as an idea, a field of study, a place in the world, a subject for teaching – from a multi-disciplinary …
Courses
Course Spotlight: African Politics
COURSE DESCRIPTION The course looks at a wide range of current political developments, situating them within an historical context, using concepts from political science, readings by African and non-African authors, and numerous assigned videos. The …
Course Spotlight: Sound & African Modernity
Course Description This course examines sound and technology as tools of cultural invention and identity in contemporary African life. How do music and its mediums construct national belonging in Africa and the diaspora? What are …
Course Spotlight: Global HipHop and Social Justice
Professor D was recently featured on a special episode of Le Journal Rappé (The Rap News) hosted by Senegalese rap stars Keyti and Xuman to discuss the escalating tension between Donald Trump and Kim Jung-un. …
Course Spotlight: Languages, Gender, and Sexuality in African Contexts
Course Description How are gender and sexuality constrained, constructed, performed, and resisted in and through language? We will address these issues through readings and discussion of theories of language and gender, queer linguistics, and feminist …
Course Spotlight: The Need to Help – A History of Humanitarianism
Course Description What motivates us to try to alleviate the suffering of people in distant parts of the world? This is one of the questions that threads through this course on the global history of …
Course Spotlight: Africa and (Neo)Liberalism
Course Description The contemporary world is fundamentally defined by the cultural force called “neoliberalism.” While there is some debate about whether, in 2018, this remains to be true, or is equally applicable in all places—which …
Course Spotlight: Africa + The Internet
Course Description Africa, the continent with the world’s most concentrated poverty, has been the highest adopter of mobile technology for the past 10 years. Africa’s Internet, though hardly reliable, is the world’s primary “mobile first” …
Course Spotlight: Sin and Laughter: Transgressive Arts from Southern Africa to the Middle East
Course Description What’s the best Arab sitcom? How have African ideas of acceptable and unacceptable humor evolved over the history of cosmopolitanism? Where do we find evidence of religious dogma in the tradition of creative …
Course Spotlight: Curatorial Studies Exhibition Practice
Course Description This course will engage students in all aspects of the preparation of an exhibition for the Chazen Museum of Art or other exhibition spaces on campus. Students will help conceptualize the exhibition and …