African Studies syllabus
January 7, 2008
Here are the expectations for the African Studies class, along with a very tentative schedule that will change significantly once everyone gets a book:
African Studies syllabus 01.07.08
African Studies book
December 20, 2007
The primary book for the African Studies course is Understanding Contemporary Africa (4th Edition), edited by April Gordon & Donald Gordon.
Here’s a link to the book on Amazon
Here are the ISBN numbers:
ISBN-13: 978-1-58826-466-4
ISBN-10: 1-58826-466-1
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The book
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All posts
- Staying in touch
- Spring class photos
- Battle at Kruger
- Even teachers are targeted in Zimbabwe
- Darfur fact sheets
- Gorillas in the Mist parkland threatened
- Anderson Cooper visits Fossey’s gorillas
- Slate audio slideshow: Darfur
- Seniors: final exam review guide
- Assignments to this point
- Video: “The New Apartheid”
- Video: highland gorillas
- Video: Mount Kilimanjaro
- The BBC on religion in Africa
- Women’s issues paper assignment
- Nation of Andorra not in Africa
- Education readings
- Malaria assignment & follow-up reading
- Weekend reading
- HIV/AIDS world maps
- Mandela paper assignment
- BBC program vanishes – read here instead
- Apartheid in practice
- A short history of South Africa
- Post-Rwanda readings
- Ghosts of Rwanda
- 1/22 assignments, updated syllabus
- Stanley finds Livingstone
- The White Man’s Burden + Berlin Conference
- Map exercise
- African Studies syllabus
- African Studies book
