Introducing Cape Town

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course explores Cape Town as a layered historical landscape shaped by indigenous presence, colonial expansion, slavery, and apartheid spatial planning. Through site visits and critical discussion, students engage directly with places where histories of power, resistance, and everyday life unfolded. The course emphasizes how these histories continue to shape contemporary Cape Town. Moving across key locations, students will explore how systems of colonialism, slavery, forced removals and economic control were constructed and contested over time. n