ClassInfo - Spring 2018 African Amer & African Studies Classes

Spring 2018 | AFRO 5910 Section 001: Topics in African American and African Studies -- Coming to America: African Women Immigrant Voices (68632)

Instructor(s): Njeri Githire
Class Component:: Lecture
Credits:: 2-4 Credits
Repeat Credit Limit:: 4 Credits
Grading Basis:: A-F only
Instructor Consent:: No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:: In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:: Topics Course
Meets With:: AFRO 8910 Section 001
Times and Locations:: Regular Academic Session

01/16/2018 - 05/04/2018

Tue 02:45PM - 05:30PM

UMTC, West Bank

Blegen Hall 140
Enrollment Status:: Open (6 of 10 seats filled)

Course Catalog Description:: Topics vary by instructor.
Class Description:: This course explores the processes of historical, environmental, societal and cultural change that have led to "food crisis" and other food-related issues in select African societies. By the end of the course, students will have gained a wider knowledge of the ways in which food and related functions are intimately tied to complex issues outside the kitchen/the dinner table. Such issues may include, though are not limited to, the significance of food as a marker of ethnicity, nationality, or social status; food as inseparably interwoven with colonial-era power relations in postcolonial geographies; the pervading reality of patriarchal dominance and gender bias as manifested through food practices and rules about food production/consumption. We will seek to understand the challenge that the relentless march of globalization places on African food security and probe select societal and/or institutional responses to these issues.
Grading:: 20% Final Exam
10% Reports/Papers
10% Special Projects
10% Quizzes
20% Written Homework
10% Reflection Papers
20% Class Participation
Class Format:: 35% Lecture
25% Film/Video
20% Discussion
10% Small Group Activities
10% Web Based
Textbooks:: https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/68632/1183
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:: 16 April 2013

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