South African Pop Culture and Identity

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

As an international exchange student, you will no doubt experience some level of culture shock when first arriving in South Africa. During your stay you will be interacting with locals from very diverse backgrounds in terms of language, culture, ethnicity and social class. All of these things play a role in how people construct their identities. This module draws from different disciplines - history, hip-hop and other popular music studies, post-colonial studies, sociology, and more - to give students the necessary context(s) to not only better understand contemporary South African society, but to also gain knowledge about people, popular culture and identities against the backdrop of major historical shifts.