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to modern-day novels and short stories are examined. We explore the
development of such nations as Egypt, Ethiopia, Algeria, Morocco, Mali, Nigeria,
Ghana, Congo, Kenya, and Tanzania. Students develop and sharpen their skills
in reading, critical thinking, academic writing, and they make rhetorical and
oral presentations in both African and Western traditions.
EN426 Africa II: Critical Issues in Central and Southern Africa
One trimester
Credit: One unit core English credit, one unit core elective credit.
Prerequisite: Completion of three trimesters of AS303 Writing and American
Studies or AS305 American Studies or completion of two trimesters of AS303 or
AS305 and permission of the Dean of Humanities.
Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab.
This double-credit, interdisciplinary, team-taught course uses present-day critical
issues in Central and Southern Africa as lenses for examining the history and
culture of those regions. Starting with current issues such as the Civil War in the
Congo, wildlife and resource conservation, and the HIV/AIDS epidemic, we
explore the roots of these issues in such topics as climate and geography and
their impacts on culture; the origin of humans and the development of human
societies; the importance of oral traditions; and religious, ritual, and
cosmological belief systems. We also explore the rise of trade networks along
the tropical belt and the Swahili coast, medieval Southern and Central African
kingdoms, the impact of the Atlantic slave trade, European colonization, anticolonial
movements, independence and post-independence experiences, and
the rise and fall of the Apartheid system. Literature from ancient poems and
songs to modern-day novels and short stories are examined. We explore the
development of such nations as Namibia, Botswana, Congo, Angola,
Zimbabwe, and South Africa. Students develop and sharpen their skills in
reading, critical thinking, academic writing, and they make rhetorical and oral
presentations in both African and Western traditions.
EN430: Latin America I: Pre-Columbian and Colonial Periods
One trimester
Credit: One unit core English credit, one unit core elective credit.
Prerequisite: Completion of three trimesters of AS303 Writing and American
Studies or AS305 American Studies or completion of two trimesters of AS303 or
AS305 and permission of the Dean of Humanities.
Meeting pattern: Four periods per week including lab.
This double-credit, interdisciplinary, team-taught course is a survey of Latin
America from the pre-Columbian era to the early nineteenth century. Students
explore the development of the Olmec, Mache, Nazca, Mayan, Incan, and
Aztec civilizations, among others indigenous to the Americas in the eras prior to
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