Fall 2022 (September – December)

Undergraduate

Course Code & Section: AFRI 1001 A  –   Chambi Chachage
Title:  Introduction to African Studies (Course Outline Fall 2022)
Section Information: Please note: AFRI 1001 is not a prerequisite for AFRI 1002.
Course delivery: ONLINE BLENDED.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 2002 A- Mohamed Ali

Title:  The Horn of Africa (Course Outline Fall 2022)
Course delivery: ONLINE ASYNCHRONOUS.

Course Description:  The course explores the economic, social, and political challenges facing the Horn of Africa, placing them in historical and global contexts. We will start by examining the major landmark events in the history of this region from antiquity to the present, with a focus on the 20th and 21st centuries.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 2003 A-  Chambi Chachage
Title:  The Great Lakes Region of Africa (Course Outline Fall 2022)
Course Description: The economic, social, and political challenges facing the Great Lake Regions of Africa, including the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. The course is segmented into; The Interlacustrine Kingdoms, The Colonial Encounters, The Decolonization Processes, The East African Community, The Tanzania-Uganda War, The Rwandan Genocide, The Congo Wars, The Burundi Peace Negotiations, The Refugee Crises, The Rwanda-Uganda Conflict, The Kenya-Uganda-Rwanda’s Coalition of the Willing, The East African Federation

Prerequisite(s): AFRI 1001 or AFRI 1002 or FYSM 1901 or permission of the Institute of African Studies.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 3001 A – Nduka Otiono
Title: Globalization and Popular Culture in Africa 
Course Description: This course examines new popular life-worlds in Africa. Though potentially “elusive” to conceptualize, this course shows how these forms of popular culture are related to the role of youth culture and social media in an age of globalization and democratization.
Prerequisite(s): third year standing and at least 1.0 credit in AFRI or permission of the Institute of African Studies.
Course delivery: ONLINE BLENDED.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 3609 A     Aboubakar Sanogo   
Title: African Cinema
Course Description: There has seldom been a better time to study African cinema. Indeed, cinema and media practices across the continent have been experiencing a growth and expansion in recent years. African films are winning major awards at major film festivals. Nollywood is a ubiquitous presence around the world. Netflix is actively courting African filmmakers across the continent and across linguistic lines, creating its “Made in Africa Collection” with the tagline “Made in Africa, Streaming to the World.” The Criterion Collection has been releasing restored classics of African cinema through its partnership with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation and the African Film Heritage Project. There is something akin to renaissance in African cinema in the present moment.
The project of this course is to seek to understand and explain these contemporary transformations by introducing students to African cinema through its history, some of its major and emerging filmmakers, film movements, films and institutions, its key debates and challenges as well as its potential futures.” Also listed as FILM 3609.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 credit in FILM and third year standing or permission of instructor.
Course delivery: ONLINE BLENDED.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 4050 F      Shireen Hassim
Title: Racecraft:  African Perspectives 
Course Description: This course introduces students to the ways in which race and racism manifested and shaped African societies and economies. We pay attention to the ways in which race was crafted, to borrow from the language of the historians Karen Fields and Barbara Fields. The idea of racecraft captures the ways in which race is made historically and socially as core to the organization of power. We explore theories of race, explanations for racism, and the legacies of the colonial imprimatur on contemporary African society. Given the importance of apartheid as a visible and carefully-designed system, the course pays particular attention to debates in South Africa.

Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing and at least 1.0 credit in AFRI or permission of the Institute of African Studies. Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as AFRI 5050, for which additional credit is precluded.
Course delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 4900 A      Mary Owusu
Title: African History: Colonialism, Imperialism, and Pan-Africanism  (Course outline Fall 2022)
Course Description: A tutorial on selected topics in which seminars are not available.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Institute of African Studies and agreement of an instructor.

Graduate

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5000 F        Shireen Hassim
Title: AFRI 5000 African Studies as a Discipline (Historical and Current Perspectives )
Course Description: This course examines the formation of African Studies as a discipline, including the historical and ongoing debates over its boundaries and genealogies and its changing research paradigms.
Course delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS.
Note: Concurrent registration in AFRI 5800 is required.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5050 F        Shireen Hassim
Title: Racecraft: African Perspectives
Course Description: This course introduces students to the ways in which race and racism manifested and shaped African societies and economies. We pay attention to the ways in which race was crafted, to borrow from the language of the historians Karen Fields and Barbara Fields. The idea of racecraft captures the ways in which race is made historically and socially as core to the organization of power. We explore theories of race, explanations for racism, and the legacies of the colonial imprimatur on contemporary African society. Given the importance of apartheid as a visible and carefully-designed system, the course pays particular attention to debates in South Africa.
Course delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5700 F
Title: Directed Readings in African Studies
Course Description: A Tutorial on a selected topic in African Studies in which seminars are not available.
Note: Permission of the Department and agreement of an instructor.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5800 F
Title: Scholarly Preparation in African Studies
Course Description: This course will provide scholarly preparation in African Studies by requiring participation in public talks as both audience member and presenter.
Note: Concurrent registration in AFRI 5000 is required.