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Folklore & Public Culture (FLR)
118 Prince Lucien Campbell, 541-346-3911
Folklore & Public Culture, College of Arts & Sciences
9 - Low cost (less than $50) for class textbook materials.
O - All course content is conducted online. Students are not required to come to campus for orientation, testing, or academic support services.
U - Some or all of the seats in this section are reserved for students in Freshman Interest Groups (FIG) or Academic Residential Communities (ARC)
Course Data
  FLR 225   Voices of Africa >1 >GP >IC 4.00 cr.
Novels, music, dance, dress, paintings, films, and cartoons serve as a primary sources from which to learn about the diversity and vivacity of contemporary African peoples.
Grading Options: Optional; see degree guide or catalog for degree requirements
Instructor: Bosire ME-mailHomepage Office:   377 Straub Hall
Phone:   (541) 346-3916
Office Hours: 1530 - 1730 M STB 377
Section has additional FeesCourse Fees: $25.00 per credit
Course Materials
 
  CRN Avail Max Time Day Location Instructor Notes
  12760 0 40 - mtwrfsu 00 WEB Bosire M $UO9
Academic Deadlines
Deadline     Last day to:
September 27:   Process a complete drop (100% refund, no W recorded)
October 3:   Drop this course (100% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
October 3:   Process a complete drop (90% refund, no W recorded; after this date, W's are recorded)
October 4:   Process a complete withdrawal (90% refund, W recorded)
October 4:   Withdraw from this course (100% refund, W recorded)
October 5:   Add this course
October 5:   Last day to change to or from audit
October 11:   Process a complete withdrawal (75% refund, W recorded)
October 11:   Withdraw from this course (75% refund, W recorded)
October 18:   Process a complete withdrawal (50% refund, W recorded)
October 18:   Withdraw from this course (50% refund, W recorded)
October 25:   Process a complete withdrawal (25% refund, W recorded)
October 25:   Withdraw from this course (25% refund, W recorded)
November 15:   Withdraw from this course (0% refund, W recorded)
December 2:   Change grading option for this course
Caution You can't drop your last class using the "Add/Drop" menu in DuckWeb. Go to the “Completely Withdraw from Term/University” link to begin the complete withdrawal process. If you need assistance with a complete drop or a complete withdrawal, please contact the Office of Academic Advising, 101 Oregon Hall, 541-346-3211 (8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday). If you are attempting to completely withdraw after business hours, and have difficulty, please contact the Office of Academic Advising the next business day.

Expanded Course Description
This course introduces students to the diversity and vivacity of life in African contexts through engagement with a variety of voices from across the continent. Many courses about Africa at UO tend toemphasize critical issues impacting African peoples, contributing to many students knowing little about life in Africa other than that there are social problems. The focus of this course is different in its emphasis on the daily lives and expressivity and creativity of people living in a wide variety of social,cultural, economic, and political contexts on the continent.

For this course, a "voice" refers to any kind of communicative act, including stories, novels, poetry,cartoons, personal experience narratives, journalistic writings, songs, music, dance, film, political oratory, dress, blogs, websites, paintings, pottery, interviews, body art, and so on. As students engage with voices from Africa, they will consider the people and contexts involved in its production and reception as well as the ways in which it communicates and functions in order to gain insight into the lives, experiences, and expressivity of individuals and communities. The syllabus is designed to engage with many different types of people from different countries, economic standards, gender, values, ages, political perspectives. Important themes for the course include creativity, expressivity, identity, family, community, language, gender, class, ethnicity, education, oppression, resistance, religion, politics, colonialism, neo-colonialism, and globalization.

This course satisfies the International Cultures multicultural requirement by providing a critical perspective about intersections between individuals, cultures, and identities in specific African contexts. Students will learn about how people belonging to specific socio-cultural categories (e.g. related to nationality, ethnicity, class, gender, and occupation) use expressive forms in the construction of identities and in the negotiation of power dynamics. Issues related to colonialism, post‐colonialism, relationships between ethnic groups, wars, gender, class, globalization, labor, migration, and democratization will emerge as we consider the multiple ways that expressive forms emerge, transform, and function within situated contexts. This course also satisfies the Arts and Letters group requirement, because it introduces students to modes of inquiry central to the discipline of folklore studies. Students will be introduces to a wide range of perspectives and theoretical approaches to the study of folklore, including theories of culture, creativity, narrative, genre, identity, ethnicity, and gender, as these apply to the study of the cultural expressions of contemporary African people.

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