Modern Africa: The Slave Trade to the End of Apartheid

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The course is designed to give students an understanding and appreciation of African history and culture from the "inside out." Though it deals with the period of European expansion in Africa, it is centered on African language/ ethnic groups, villages, and individuals as historical actors who daily make collective and personal decisions to pass down, innovate, and borrow practices, technology, spiritual systems, etc. in the face of social, political, and economic realities. The course is also designed to get students thinking critically about how historians select and interpret sources to construct and reconstruct history at these different levels. This course fulfills Dietrich College's "Intercultural and Global Inquiry" general education requirement. It also satisfies one of the core requirements for the African and African American Studies minor.