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Course Spotlight: Con Artists in Arabic

Posted on January 15, 2016

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 …

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Course Spotlight: Introduction to International Development Education

Posted on January 15, 2016

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. …

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Course Spotlight: Political Ethnography – The Politics of Daily Life

Posted on November 13, 2015

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 …

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Course Spotlight: Literary Ethnography

Posted on November 13, 2015

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, … …

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Course Spotlight: Health, Healing, and Science in Africa

Posted on November 13, 2015

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 …

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Course Spotlight: Dissident Women Voices from the Middle East and North Africa

Posted on November 9, 2015

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, …

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Course Spotlight: Seminar in Modern African Literature – Melodrama

Posted on November 9, 2015

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, …

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Teaching assistants needed for Spring Africa survey course

Posted on October 16, 2015

277 Africa: An Introductory Survey Cross-listed in African Languages and Literature, Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Geography, History, Political Science, and Sociology Instructor: Michael Schatzberg, Political Science Number of Teaching Assistants needed: 2 Eligibility: Applicants must be …

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Course Spotlight: First Semester Hausa

Posted on August 31, 2015

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 …

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Course Spotlight: Internationalizing Education

Posted on July 27, 2015

Course Description “Internationalizing education” means both that education internationalizes our thinking and the ways we perceive the world, and that the field of education can be internationalized. The course will introduce students to various educational …

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