HIST 511

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Seminar in African History

Credit: 4 hours.

Topics will be listed in the department's course guide at http://www.history.illinois.edu.

Same as AFST 511. May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: One upper-level African history course.

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HIST 511 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39841	Discussion/ Recitation	A	3:00PM -4:50PM	R	Gregory Hall	Barnes, T	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Info: Topic: Urban Africa. Description: African cities are fascinating places. Does one study them in terms of their local growth and development? As artifacts produced by particular conceptual regimes of urban planning? What do we know about pre-19th century towns and cities, and continuities with later urban spaces? Do we look primarily at architecture, or at the contributions a city makes to the landscape? Should we study neighborhoods? Perhaps the political movements that they have often spawned are the most important things to consider. Or, should we focus on urban connections with surrounding rural areas, where the majority of Africa's populations still live? Are the most important urban dynamics primarily industrial, social, cultural or environmental? How have recent works contributed to our understandings of gendered dynamics in African cities? We will read and discuss a range of historical works on "the African city" focusing mainly on Zimbabwe, South Africa, Kenya and Nigeria. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.