INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN POPULAR CULTURE
Popular culture (such as popular literature, music, television, news media, movies, etc.) will be used to introduce the African continent and its cultures, people, and languages. Explore text from a different regions on the continent, with a focus on differences and similarities across the continent at the level of aesthetics and context.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: None Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Humanities Level - Elementary L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2024 Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize canonical authors and texts, historical forms, genres, and structures, and recognize aesthetic and cultural concerns in Africa and its diasporas. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop a level of proficiency in the different “ways of knowing” Africa and the diaspora through language, literatures, and cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand their own learning processes and possess the capacity to intentionally seek, evaluate, and learn from information, and recognize and reduce bias in their thinking. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Communicate effectively through essays, oral presentations, and discussion, so they may share their knowledge, wisdom, and values with others across social and professional settings. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Show knowledge of conventional rhetorical strategies, and integrate research by other authors while distinguishing between their own ideas and those of others Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Recognize canonical authors and texts, historical forms, genres, and structures, and recognize aesthetic and cultural concerns in Africa and its diasporas. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Develop a level of proficiency in the different “ways of knowing” Africa and the diaspora through language, literatures, and cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Understand their own learning processes and possess the capacity to intentionally seek, evaluate, and learn from information, and recognize and reduce bias in their thinking. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Communicate effectively through essays, oral presentations, and discussion, so they may share their knowledge, wisdom, and values with others across social and professional settings. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Show knowledge of conventional rhetorical strategies, and integrate research by other authors while distinguishing between their own ideas and those of others Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027