History (HIST) |
275 McKenzie Hall, 541-346-4802
College of Arts & Sciences
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Course Data
| HIST 325 Precolonial Africa >2 >GP >IC |
4.00 cr. |
| Survey of African history to the mid-19th century, analyzing processes of state formation, regional and long-distance trade, religion, oral tradition, and systems of slavery. |
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CRN |
Avail |
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Time |
Day |
Location |
Instructor |
Notes |
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36477 |
27 |
70 |
0830-0950 |
tr |
221 MCK |
Braun L |
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Final Exam: |
0800-1000 |
r 6/15 |
221 MCK |
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Academic Deadlines
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| April 2: |
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| April 8: |
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| April 8: |
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| April 9: |
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| April 9: |
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| April 10: |
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| April 10: |
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| April 16: |
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| April 16: |
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| April 23: |
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| April 23: |
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| April 30: |
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| April 30: |
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| May 21: |
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| May 21: |
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Expanded Course Description
| This course focuses on histories of Africa--as well as ways of thinking about histories in Africa—from roughly the rise of Islam to the eve of the colonial encounter with Europe. As the second-largest continent on Earth, today home to well over a billion people in thousands upon thousands of distinct language and culture groups, Africa has a diverse set of pasts that is hard to generalize. African history considers both what was historically shared by African societies regionally as well as what makes each unique, with a variety of textual, oral, and material evidence that creates a rich picture of the past. How have African pasts prior to the late nineteenth century affected later African experiences (including the global legacy)? How do we reach into the lives and minds of people with different sets of understandings and values in the world? What are the limits of our knowledge, historically and in terms of how we think about Africa conceptually? We’ll consider all of these through a variety of processes that invoke various examples and historical evidence for careful analysis. |
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