AP/SOSC2480 6.0 B: Introduction to African Studies
Offered by: SOSC
Session
Fall 2022
Term
Y
Format
ONLN (Fully Online)
Instructor
Calendar Description / Prerequisite / Co-Requisite
Explores common themes in the social organization, history and cultural heritage of Africa's diverse peoples. It then moves to examine the impact of colonialism, and the struggle to develop politically and economically viable nation-states in the post-colonial era. The work of African writers, artists and statesmen furnishes an important contribution to the course's understanding of Africa, past and present. Previously offered as: AP/SOSC 2480 9.00.
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