AFRI 5000 – Disciplining Africa: Historical and Current Perspectives on the Study of Africa
Date: Thursday April 12, 2018
Time: 11:30am – 2:30pm
Location: 2017 DT
This course examines the evolution of African Studies as a discipline, including the historical and ongoing debates over its boundaries and genealogies and its changing research paradigms. Because intellectual engagements in African Studies take place in multiple disciplines and through paradigms that transcend specific disciplines, the course will interrogate how different fields of study have contributed to the understanding of Africa, Africans and people of African descent. Intellectual, institutional and ideological contexts shaping production and dissemination of knowledge about Africa, Africans and people of African heritage will receive particular attention in this course.
In partial fulfilment of the course, students are required to individually showcase their final research proposal/research essay before a wider audience of Africanist faculty at a special session organized by the Institute of African Studies. Students will have the rare opportunity of receiving valuable feedback and encouragement from a broad range of faculty with vested interest in various sub-disciplines of African studies.