African Studies (AFRS) 1 African Studies (AFRS) Search AFRS Courses using FocusSearch (http:// AFRS 2307. Africa Today. (4 Hours) catalog.northeastern.edu/class-search/?subject=AFRS) Offers a basic survey of the latest innovations and cultural and socioeconomic trends of 21st-century Africa. Examines the political AFRS 1101. Introduction to African Studies. (4 Hours) transformations of some of the 49 Sub-Saharan African nations. Focuses Uses a multidisciplinary approach to offer an introduction and overview on a culturally and ethnically diverse continent of five regions with of the geographical, demographic, socioeconomic, and political linguistic and religious diversity and tribal societies reflecting an ancient conditions of the African continent, emphasizing sub-Saharan Africa. triple heritage—Indigenous, Arab, and European. Presents complex and Africa, “the cradle of humankind,” is a vast, complex continent of diverse critical perspectives on topics including governance and civil strife, peoples that has fascinated observers and evoked multiple images. gender empowerment, the impact of globalization, trade and investment Topical areas of interest range from ethnic relations, politics, colonial developments, public health challenges, the visual and performing arts, experience, and international relations to religion, environment, health, identity formation among a rising youth demographic to pervasive mobile economic development, gender, culture, and literature. Course materials technology, food security, and the new "African" passport. aim to provide contemporary African perspectives and analyses that offer students an opportunity to acquire and interpret broad knowledge about Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions the continent. AFRS 2410. Possession, Sacrifice, and Divination in African Diasporic Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions Religions. (4 Hours) Examines religious thought and rituals and the Diaspora in a comparative AFRS 1180. African History. (4 Hours) context. Topics include traditional religions, Islam, Christianity, and Explores the history of the African continent from 1000 C.E. to the Judaism in Africa, and the Diaspora. Emphasizes the transformation of present era. Topics include medieval kingdoms (Ghana, Mali, Songhai, religions practiced in Africa when African captives were forced into the Zimbabwe, the city-states of East Africa, and the Kongo kingdom); slave three slave trades affecting the continent of Africa: trans-Saharan, Indian trades (Indian Ocean, trans-Saharan, and transatlantic); the partition of Ocean, and transatlantic. Africa and European colonization; and the decolonization process. Due consideration is given to the interactions of African peoples with the rest Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions of the world, particularly the relations between Africa and Europe after AFRS 2464. Natural Resources and Sustainable Development. (4 Hours) 1500 C.E. Examines the social dimensions of resource extraction. Focusing mainly on developing nations, studies global issues, including developments AFRS 1185. Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora. (4 Hours) in industrial nations, to assess their impact on resource extraction Explores the various roles played by gender and sexuality throughout and living and working conditions in resource-rich regions. Uses case the African Diaspora, as well as the ways in which they are articulated, studies of key countries producing oil/gas, minerals, and forest/ performed, represented, and researched. Topics may include the agricultural commodities to illustrate the past/current causes of relationship of gender and sexuality to technology, accessibility, place, resource mismanagement; their social consequences; and how public class, and labor. policies, legislation, and financial and human resource management with industrialization can be used to avert or reduce the adverse effects of Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions resource extraction, especially in poor countries. Major theories examined AFRS 1270. Introduction to Global Health. (4 Hours) include the resource curse and alternative approaches to problems faced Introduces global health in the context of an interdependent and by resource-bearing developing nations. AFRS 2464 and INTL 2464 are globalized world focusing on four main areas of analysis: infrastructure cross-listed. of global health; diseases; populations; and terms, concepts, and theories. While the focus is on lower-income countries, the course Attribute(s): NUpath Societies/Institutions examines issues in a broader global context, underscoring the AFRS 2465. The Scope and Dynamics of Conflicts in Africa. (4 Hours) interconnections between global health disparities and global health Surveys the faces, character, and manifestations of violent and policy response. Applies case studies describing interventions to improve nonviolent conflicts across the landscape of continental Africa. healthcare in resource-poor settings in sub-Saharan Africa and elsewhere Addresses the causes/sources of conflict, types of conflicts and to help illuminate the actors, diseases, populations, and principles and their impact on society, and the conflict resolution mechanisms. frameworks for the design of effective global health interventions. The contemporary history of the continent of Africa is defined most AFRS 1270 and PHTH 1270 are cross-listed. markedly by conflict that has impacted heavily on the continent’s diverse multicultural societies, polities, and economies. The structure of conflicts Attribute(s): NUpath Societies/Institutions in the continent is complex and, indeed, exhibits diverse faces; conflicts AFRS 1990. Elective. (1-4 Hours) differ in their roots, causes, and explanations and between the different Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. regions and population groups in the south, east, central, west, and north. May be repeated without limit. The course critically analyzes this broad range of aspects with specific focus on sub-Saharan Africa using country- and case-based analyses and critical thinking. AFRS 2465 and INTL 2465 are cross-listed. Attribute(s): NUpath Difference/Diversity, NUpath Societies/Institutions 2 African Studies (AFRS) AFRS 2900. Swahili, Culture, and Politics in Kenya. (4 Hours) AFRS 4510. Anthropology of Africa. (4 Hours) Introduces and immerses students in Kenyan African culture, the Swahili Explores Africa’s changing place in the world. Studies the history of Africa language and politics, and studies their impact on the everyday life of the and explores the role of ethnography in the making of colonial Africa and local population. Offers students an opportunity to learn Swahili, which is the cultural transformations and continuities produced by the emergence the national language of Kenya; its use in a context of varied indigenous of African cities during and after colonialism. Studies postcolonial Africa languages; and cultural dynamics. Exposes students to the major to critically and comparatively engage with contemporary issues facing issues that characterize everyday life in rural and urban settings through African societies. Considers the efflorescence of new cultural forms of visits to and stays in the rural areas and transect walks in villages and music, art, film, and literature, in conjunction with new sources of identity urban communities. Students visit projects run by community-based such as nationality, religion, ethnicity, consumption, and migration. organizations, observing the everyday life of ordinary Kenyans and ANTH 4510, INTL 4510, and AFRS 4510 are cross-listed. attending formal and informal classes and settings on Swahili language, culture, and the local politics. Prerequisite(s): (ANTH 1101 with a minimum grade of D- or CRIM 1100 with a minimum grade of D- or HUSV 1101 with a minimum grade of D- Attribute(s): NUpath Integration Experience or INTL 1101 with a minimum grade of D- or POLS 1140 with a minimum AFRS 2990. Elective. (1-4 Hours) grade of D- or POLS 1160 with a minimum grade of D- or SOCL 1101 with Offers elective credit for courses taken at other academic institutions. a minimum grade of D- or WMNS 1103 with a minimum grade of D- ); May be repeated without limit. (ENGL 1111 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1111 with a minimum grade of C or ENGL 1102 with a minimum grade of C or ENGW 1102 with a minimum grade of C ) AFRS 3424. Epidemiology of Pandemic Diseases and Health Disparities Attribute(s): NUpath Interpreting Culture, NUpath Writing Intensive in the African Diaspora. (4 Hours) Examines the epidemiology and determinants of diseases and the AFRS 4700. Capstone. (4 Hours) public health practice among continental African peoples and African- Offers students an opportunity to prepare a professional research project derived populations in the Americas and elsewhere in the African or paper under the close supervision of a scholar interested in students’ Diaspora. Emphasizes such epidemic diseases as malaria, yellow fever, particular research areas. tuberculosis, smallpox, the current AIDS pandemic, obesity, and cancer. The course also aims to critically address the breadth of factors behind Attribute(s): NUpath Capstone Experience, NUpath Writing Intensive these pandemics, such as socioeconomic, political, health system, AFRS 4939. Community Health, Culture, and Development in Kenya. (4 behavioral, and genetic. A