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Courses :: CULS C701 Topic: Africa in the 20th Century

A portion of the above class reserved for majors Above class open to graduates only This is a research seminar that focuses on innovative research and writing in Africanist historiography. Seminar meetings will center on selected texts that mark out some of the directions in which historiography of the African continent is moving. This will allow the class to chart the longer standing trends as well as new angles of investigation while also grappling with the challenges of research and writing about the African past. All seminar participants will research and write an article-length paper based on original research. Topics should be of relevance to a student’s areas of study and should be viable given the time and resource constraints of the course. Written assignments include an intellectual autobiography (4 double- spaced pages), a short research proposal (4 double-spaced pages + a bibliography) and a seminar paper (30 double-spaced pages).

Courses :: CULS C701 Topic: Special Topics in Cultural Studies

A portion of the above class reserved for majors Above class open to graduates only This is a research seminar that focuses on innovative research and writing in Africanist historiography. Seminar meetings will center on selected texts that mark out some of the directions in which historiography of the African continent is moving. This will allow the class to chart the longer standing trends as well as new angles of investigation while also grappling with the challenges of research and writing about the African past. All seminar participants will research and write an article-length paper based on original research. Topics should be of relevance to a student’s areas of study and should be viable given the time and resource constraints of the course. Written assignments include an intellectual autobiography (4 double- spaced pages), a short research proposal (4 double-spaced pages + a bibliography) and a seminar paper (30 double-spaced pages).