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AFRICAN STUDIES RELATED COURSES
New Course for Autumn Quarter 2008
History of Islam in West Africa
Department of History, 594, Call#21890-0. 5 credits
Level: Undergraduate/Graduate
Instructor: Dr. Ousman Kobo,
kobo.1@osu.edu
TR 2:30 - 4:18, University Hall 0056
This course will explore the relationship between identity politics and Islamic movements in West Africa. Using the decline of the Songhai Empire in sixteenth-century as the starting point, the course will examine the following questions: how does the struggle over religious purity reconfigure West African Islamic cultural and political landscapes? How does the diversity of the conception of religious purity contribute to the construction of religious, social and political identities? In what ways did West African Muslims confront European colonialism and subsequently Western modernity? We will analyze how West African Muslims constructed their religious identities by localizing Islamic intellectual traditions, healing practices, music, arts, cultural norms and formal and informal religious festivals. By the end of the course, students will acquire the skills for analyzing the dialectical relationship between Islam and West African social, religious and cultural expressions, especially how Islam transformed and was transformed by indigenous religious knowledge, cultures and polity. Students will also be able to appreciate Islams common framework as well as its diversity and dynamics within that larger framework.
By completing the requirements for this course, students will acquire a perspective on history and an understanding of the factors that shape human activity. This knowledge will furnish students with the insights into the origins and nature of contemporary issues. Students will also be able to think critically through the study of diverse interpretations of historical events and to apply that skill in careful analysis and appreciation of primary and secondary historical sources. Course materials and lectures are designed to help students acquire or enhance their written and oral communication skills necessary for analyzing historical documents.
New Courses for Spring Quarter 2008
Anthropology of Africa with a Focus on Climate Change
Department of Anthropology
421.05,
Call #: 01378-0,
Credits: 5
Level: Undergraduate
Instructor: Dr. Mark Moritz
TR 11:30-1:18,
Place: McPherson Chemical Laboratory 1035
This course provides an overview of different environmental issues in contemporary Africa. We examine issues of environmental security, dryland development, and nature conservation in different ecological settings across the African continent. We will use the theoretical frameworks of political ecology, historical ecology, and the new ecology, which have contributed to a to radical rethinking of environmental problems. The goal of the course is to come to an anthropological understanding of the complexity of environmental issues in contemporary Africa within the context of global climate change. Integrated in the course is a wiki that we will use for collaborative writing assignments, synthesis of course materials, and discussion. To view the full syllabus, go to anthropology.osu.edu/faculty/pages/Moritz.php.
African Social Movements in the Age of Globalization
African American and African Studies 765 (Graduate Seminar),
Call # 21697-1
Instructor: Dr. Franco Barchiesi (barchiesi.1@osu.edu)
Wednesdays 1:30 - 4:18,
University Hall 0090
Globalization is confronting African societies with new, urgent challenges. Since the early 1980s, structural adjustment, privatization, and economic liberalization have underscored deepening poverty, social inequality, armed conflicts, and environmental emergencies. Moreover, neoliberal economic policies have undercut the functions of governments and public institutions, making many scholars talk of a crisis of the African nation-state. Social movements and civil societies have responded to such shifts in a variety of ways, trying to resist, negotiate, or adapt to the socioeconomic changes of a globalizing world. In this course, we will look at diverse, multilayered ways in which African social movements cope with globalization. Our emphasis will be on the complexity and variety of collective identities and agency underpinning African social movement politics. Apart from a theoretical discussion on the meanings of social movements in Africa, we will therefore look at a wide range of movements, including pro-democracy, ethnic, religious, labor, women, student, and environmental movements. The resulting picture is of a dense, often contradictory, yet always vital and vibrant social texture, whose comprehension is essential to understand Africa's problems and possibilities at the beginning of the 21st Century.
Infectious Diseases in the Developing World
College of Public Health,
PUBH-EPI 794A Group Studies/Epidemiology,
Call# 21440-8,
Credits: 2
Level: Graduate and Undergraduate
Instructor: Dr. Kurt Stevenson
Mondays 8:30 10:18 am,
Place: Starling-Loving M0008
It was once thought that infectious disease was disappearing as a major threat to health, especially in highly developed countries, because of improvements in antibiotics and vaccines, along with generally more hygienic conditions and effective preventive measures. However, we now know that infectious disease continues to be a significant problem in much of the world, and even in developed countries is recognized as having the potential to have a serious impact on population health. The reasons are many, including newly emerging infectious diseases, drug-resistant strains of well-known diseases, and the effects of war and poverty in deteriorating public health infrastructure. This course will consider issues concerning the existence and control of infectious disease, especially in developing countries. The range of diseases considered will be quite broad, ranging from those that have wide impact and threaten economic stability (such as HIV, malaria, and tuberculosis) to some that are less widely distributed but can be devastating in particular populations (e.g., hemorrhagic fevers, infection-caused blindness, bacterial meningitis). The course will deal both with understanding the disease itself and the difficult policy decisions related to managing and eradicating the disease.
Existing Courses:
Course Number Course Title
AFRICAN AMERICA AND AFRICAN STUDIES
101 Introduction to African-American and African Studies
121 African Civilization to 1870
122 African Civilization, 1870 to Present
154 Introduction to African-American Literature
208.20 African Performing Ensemble.
218 Black Urban Experience
230 The Black Woman: Her Role in the Liberation Struggle
244 Survey of African and African-Derived Music in the Western World.
251 Introduction to African Literature
254 Themes in African-American Literature
261 Black-White Behavior
271 Contemporary Black Drama
293 Individual Studies
323.1 History of African-Americans in the Age of Slavery
323.2 History of African-Americans from Emancipation to the Present
326 Black Americans and the Legal System
327 Introduction to African Politics
342 Music, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
345 Early African American Thinkers
350 History of Modern Africa
351 Caribbean Literature in English
361 Psychology of the Black Experience
367.03 African America Voices in US Literature
367.04 Black Women Writers: Text & Content
375 Early African-American Art
379 History of Jazz II
385.01 Southern Africa: Society and Culture
385.02 Southern African Study Tour
460 Political Thought in African Literature
495 Community Development in Urban African American Communities
504 Black Politics
527 Pan-Africanism and Nationalism
555.01 Topics in African-American History I
555.02 Topics in African-American History II
561 Topics in African American Psychology
571 Images of Black People in Media Production
582 Studies in African-American Literature
595 Theorizing Race
630 Black Political Movements and Organizations
632 Law, Politics and Human Rights in Africa
643 History of Islam in Africa
669 Slavery in Comparative Context
691 Black American Family
694 Conflict and Peace in the Horn of Africa
718 Citizen Participation (in the Black Community)
725 Political Development of Sub-Saharan Africa
742 African Historiography and Methodology
743 Studies in African History
751 Introduction to Graduate Studies in African Literature
752 Readings in African-American History
753 The Discipline of African-American & African Studies
754 Research Methods in African-American and African Studies
757.01 Introduction to Graduate Studies in African-American Literature 1746 to 1900
775.03 Feminism and Black Political Thought
780.20 African Performing Ensemble
781 Topics in African Political Philosophy
851 Seminar in Critical Approaches to Black Literature
860 Seminar in Comparative Black Literature
998 Research in African-American and African Studies: Thesis
AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEVELOPMENT ECONOMICS
532 Food Security and Globalization
535 Economic Development in Developing Countries
536 Economic Development of Africa
597.01 Population, Food and Environment
697 Study at Foreign Institution
734 Agricultural Trade Policy
899.03 Seminar: Developing Economies
ANTHROPOLOGY
201 World Prehistory: An Anthropological Perspective
202 Peoples and Cultures: An introduction to Cultural Anthropology
300 Human Origins
421.05 Anthropology of Africa: Focus on Climate Change
489 Internship in Anthropology
597.01 Cultural Conflict in Developing Nations
597.02 Women, Culture and Development
601.04 Global Perspectives on Women’s Health
603.04 Bioarcheology
620.02 The Anthropology of Women
620.03 Peasant Society and Culture
620.11 Anthropology of Religion
656 Issues in Archeological History
701 Advanced Topics in Physical Anthropology
.02 Hominid Paleoanthropology
801 Archeology of Hunting and Gathering Societies
810 Seminars in Cultural Anthropology
ARABIC (North Africa)
241 Culture of the Contemporary Arab World
241A Special Topic class for 241 above: Why do they Hate (Love) “Us”?
293 Individual Studies
367 Issues in Arab-American Society, Culture, and Literature
611 History of the Arabic Language
697 Study at a Foreign Institution
H783 Honors Research
CITY AND REGIONAL PLANNING
740 Introduction to Planning in Developing Countries
741 Urban Sector and Project Planning in Developing Countries
COMPARATIVE STUDIES
201 Literature and Society
202.01 Literature and Religion
205 Literature and Ethnicity
270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
274 Introduction to Comparative Cultural Studies
308 Representations of the Experience of War
510 The 20th-Century Novel: Transnational Contexts
597.02 Global Culture
677.02 Themes in World Folklore
ECONOMICS
515 World Economic Development History I
516 World Economic Development History II
556 Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Economy
560 International Economic Relations
666 Financial Aspects of International Trade
EDUCATION: PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES 7& EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
801.01 Multicultural Issues in Counseling
801.02 Multicultural Research in Counseling
EDUCATION: EDUCATIONAL POLICY & LEADERSHIP
834 An Interpretative History of African American Education 1950 to 1990
EDUCATION: TEACHING & LEARNING
703 Studies in TESOL and Bilingual Education
881 Multicultural Education in Social Studies
883 World Culture and Global Issues
FRENCH & ITALIAN
690 International (French Speaking) Business Internship
990 International Business Internship
GEOGRAPHY
200 World Regional Geography
240 Economic and Social Geography
450 Making of the Modern World
460 Political Geography
597 Issues of the Contemporary World
597.01 Issues of World Urbanization
597.02 Integrated Earth Systems: Confronting Global Change
608 South Africa: Society and Space
650 Urban Geography
HISTORY
121 African Civilizations to 1870
122 African Civilizations, 1870 to Present
323.02 History of African-Americans from Emancipation to the Present
541.01 Islamic Spain and North Africa
541.02 History of Islam in Africa
542.01 Movements in the Muslim World
555.02 Topics in African-American History II
559 History of Slavery in North America from Colonial Times to 1860
727 Studies in Islamic History
752 Readings in African-American History
875.02 Seminar in African-American History II
HISTORY OF ART
216 Introduction to African Art and Archaeology
505 Contemporary African Art: 1920 to Present
611 African Art and Archaeology II
617 Contemporary Art of East and Southern Africa
621 Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology
690.02 Asian and non-Western Art
805 Contemporary African Art
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES
215 Introduction to Development Studies
250 Introduction to Africa
356 Introduction to Globalization
434 Food Security and Globalization
435 Economic Development in Developing Countries
436 Economic Development of Africa
501 Selected Problems in International Studies
597.01 Problems & Policies in World Population, Food, and Environment.
JOURNALISM AND COMMUNICATION
668 Contemporary Perspectives on Intercultural Communication in Organizational Contexts
LAW
619 International Law
728 International Transactions
LINGUISTICS
365 Language Across Cultures
605 An Introduction to African-American English
661 Sociolonguistics
MASTERS OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
808 International Field Study: Emerging Markets
POLITICAL SCIENCE
145 Politics of Global Problems
245 US in World Politics
504 Black Politics
541 Politics and the Developing World
550 Theories of International Relations
551 The United Nations System in Global Problem Solving
597 Issues of the Contemporary World
597.01 Interdependence and nationalism in World Politics
597.02 Political Problems of the Contemporary World
757 Comparative Foreign Policies
759 International Organizations
761 Political Psychology and International Relations
793.03 International Politics
826 Research in Comparative Politics
846 Research in International Politics
PUBLIC HEALTH
794-HBP Introduction to Global Health
794-EPI Infectious Diseases in the Developing World
RELIGIOUS STUDIES
270 Introduction to Comparative Religion
RURAL SOCIOLIGY
693.03 Rural Sociology in Foreign Areas
792 Rural Sociology of Developing Societies
SOCIAL WORK
300 Minority Perspectives: Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
SOCIOLOGY
597.01 Contemporary World Societies: Social Institutions and Social Change
597.02 World Population Problems
780 Racial and Ethnic Differentiation
608 Gender, Race and Class in Mass Communication
SOIL SCIENCE
643 Soils of the Tropics
WOMEN’S STUDIES
305 Gender, Culture and Power in International Perspective
505 Feminist Analysis in Global Perspective
520 Women of Color and Social Activism
620 Topics in Feminist Studies
623 African Women
775.03 Feminism and Black Political Thought
Total Area Studies Courses: 182
AFRICAN LANGUAGE COURSES:
ARABIC (North Africa)
101 Elementary Modern Standard Arabic I
101.01 Classroom Track
101.51 Individualized Track
102.01 Classroom Track
102.51 Individualized Track
103.01 Classroom Track
103.51 Individualized Track
104 Intermediate Modern Standard Arabic I
104.01 Classroom Track
104.51 Individualized Track
151.51 Individualized Track
205.01 Classroom Track
205.51 Individualized Track
241 Culture in the Contemporary Arab World
377 Contemporary Arab Folklore
400.01 Arabic Grammar I
400.02 Arabic Grammar II
403 Intermediate Arabic Conversation and Composition
603 Advanced Arabic Conversation and Composition
611 History of Arabic
626 Introduction to the Arabic Qur'an
627 Classical Arabic Poetry
651 Contemporary Arabic Prose Fiction
671 Koran in Translation
693 Individual Studies
697 Study at a Foreign Institution
721 Studies in Arabic Poetry
H783 Honors Research
998 Research in Arabic
SWAHILI
101.01 Classroom Track
102.01 Classroom Track
103 Intermediate Swahili I
104 Intermediate Swahili II
ZULU
101 Elementary Zulu I
102 Elementary Zulu II
103 Intermediate Zulu I
104 Intermediate Zulu II
SOMALI
101 Elementary Somali I
102 Elementary Somali II
103 Intermediate Somali I
104 Intermediate Somali II
Total language courses: 41
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