Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: THE MAKING OF MODERN AFRICA ***** Survey of the transformation of Africa from the late 19th century to the present. Includes Europe and Africa in the 19th century (e.g., the partition of Africa and the colonial state), economic change in the 20th century (e.g., plantation and peasant agriculture, mining and industrialization, wage and migrant labor, African capitalism, rural differentiation, and the roots of hunger and poverty), social change in the 20th century (e.g., ethnic identity, emergence of the elites, and changes in cultural policies regarding language, leisure, the roles of women, religion, law and order, medicine and healing, and urbanization), political developments (e.g., ethnic unions, political parties, and decolonization), and Africa since independence.