Courses on Africa in Other Units: 2015/16

a) Undergraduate

Fall 2015
ANTH 2620 A, Ethnography Sub-Saharan Africa, Prof. Blair Rutherford, 0.5 credits
ANTH 2660 A, Ethnography of North Africa, Prof. Bernhard Leistle, 0.5 credits
ENGL 2926 A, African Literatures I, Prof. Pius Adesanmi, 0.5 credits
FILM 3609 A, African Cinema, Prof. Aboubakar Sanogo, 0.5 credits
HIST 2706 A, Ancient and Pre-Colonial Africa, Prof. Prof. Mohamed Ali, 0.5 credits
HIST 3702 A, The Scramble for Africa, 1876 – 1918, Prof. Mohamed Ali, 0.5 credits
HUMR 3001 A, Special Topics in Human Rights, Prof. Paul Mkandawire, 0.5 credits
LANG 1010 A, Intro to Language I: Kiswahili, 0.5 credits
MUSI 4105 A, Issues and Processes in African Music, Prof. Kathy Armstrong, 0.5 credits
PSCI 3101 A, Politics of War in Africa, Prof. Chris Brown, 0.5 credits

Winter 2016
ANTH 3215 B, New African Diasporas: Anthropological perspectives, Prof. Louise de la Gorgendiere, 0.5 credits
This course focuses on the recent (1950s-present) movement, migration, and settlement of “post-colonial” Africans primarily in North America and Europe. The instructor’s own research with Ghanaians in Canada serves as a key ethnographic example, as do the lived experiences from elsewhere in Africa. Students will have the opportunity to explore an example that interests them for their major class assignment.

ANTH 4620 A, Advanced studies in Sub-Saharan Africa- Current issues in Anthropological Research “Contemporary Ethnopolitics in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Prof. Louise de la Gorgendiere, 0.5 credits
This course is a research-based seminar that explores issues and debates related to anthropological research in contemporary Sub-Saharan African with emphasis on theoretical, methodological, analytical, ethical, practical, and applied problems in anthropological research in that area. Also offered as ANTH 5209 with different requirements.

CHST 4001 A, Advanced Topics in Child Studies, Topic: “The History of ‘the African Child,” Prof. Monica Patterson, 0.5 credits
How have African children been represented historically? Early anthropological accounts and colonial tropes more generally produced African adults (and other native peoples) as childlike. Today, images of malnourished infants, dusty child labourers, AK-47-weilding child soldiers, and in some cases, smiling, playing children feature centrally in contemporary visual depictions and narrative accounts of Africa. These images appear in popular media, journalistic accounts, fundraising campaigns, development work, and human rights initiatives. What are the implications of what some have called the “infantilization” of Africa and Africans? What is the history of this representation, and how does this emphasis on children inform our understandings of Africa historically and today? In this course students will develop the critical skills necessary to analyze the history of the figure of “the African child” using a range of visual, primary, and secondary sources from colonial officials, anthropologists, historians, advertisers, charity and development workers, and African children themselves. Topics will include children’s roles and representations in their communities, the project of colonialism, revolution, philanthropy, development work, human rights discourse, and memoir.

HIST 2707 A, Modern Africa, Prof. Mohamed Ali, 0.5 credits
LANG 1020 A, Introduction to Language II: Kiswahili, 0.5 credits
PSCI 3100 B, Politics of Development in Africa, Prof. Toby Moorsom, 0.5 credits
PSCI 4105 B Global Forces and Development in the Global South, Prof. Linda Freeman, 0.5 credits
PSCI 4203 B, Southern Africa Post Apartheid Era, Prof. Linda Freeman, 0.5 credits
WGST 2812 B, Selected Topics in Women’s and Gender Studies; Topic: “African Feminisms”, Prof Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin, 0.5 credits.
This course explores current themes in historical and contemporary development in African feminist thoughts and practices. Particular emphasis will be placed on the diversity of African articulations of feminism and the understanding of how various forms of feminism have been manifested and how these manifestations have changed over time in the African context. This course also seeks to understand why African feminism(s) and feminism in Africa have been highly contested and difficult to define.  Topics in this course will examine conditions giving rise to feminism in Africa, the history of colonial rule and imperialism, and women’s involvement in nationalist struggles and other social movements. This course will also devote some time to understanding the intersectionality of culture, colonialism, globalisation, religion and patriarchy in giving meaning to bodies and understanding sexualities.

b) Graduate

Fall 2015
INAF 5603 F, Issues in Development of Africa, Prof. John Schram, 0.5 credits

Winter 2016
ANTH 5209 A, Advanced studies in Sub-Saharan Africa- Current issues in Anthropological Research “Contemporary Ethnopolitics in Sub-Saharan Africa”, Prof. Louise de la Gorgendiere, 0.5 credits
This course is a research-based seminar that explores issues and debates related to anthropological research in contemporary Sub-Saharan African with emphasis on theoretical, methodological, analytical, ethical, practical, and applied problems in anthropological research in that area. Also offered as ANTH 4620 with different requirements.

HIST 6600 U, Transnational or Thematic History, Topic: African History, 0.5 credits
PSCI 5203 W, Southern Africa After Apartheid, Prof. Linda Freeman, 0.5 credits