GWS 199

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
10354
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/26-05/06/26
Special Approval:
Instructor Approval Required
34977
Lecture-Discussion
CHP
1:00PM -2:20PM
TR
135 English Building
Barnes, T
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/26-05/06/26
Degree Notes:
Camp Honors/Chanc Schol, Humanities - Hist & Phil, and Cultural Studies - Non-West course.
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Apartheid did not spring fully formed from the minds of the leaders of the Nationalist Party who won a surprise victory in the 1948 whites-only election in South Africa. With a general view of and commitment to a white supremacist society, the Nationalists set about to transform the educational opportunities offered to white and black students. This course will look critically at the changes and continuities that developed in South African higher education over the next 50 years. While all institutions either enthusiastically embraced or reluctantly bowed to the government’s will after the passage of overtly racist legislation in 1959, there were clear pockets of both complicity and resistance in the universities. We will look at the separate institutions, and the staff, students and faculty, male and female, who stood out either for their support for apartheid or their resistance to it. The overall aim of this course is for students to gain familiarity with the currents of historical developments in South Africa in the second half of the 20th century, focusing less on political events, and more on the ramifications of those events on educational structures and opportunities - which impacted every South African community. This course has been approved for General Education credit for Humanities: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives and for Cultural Studies: Non-Western Cultures.
Restriction(s):
Restricted to Chancellor's Scholar-CHPHonors students.
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