Africa Courses

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Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

AFRICAAM 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Spring

AFRICAAM 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Winter

AFRICAAM 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

COMPLIT 233A
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, CSRE 133E, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

CSRE 133E
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, FRENCH 133, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

FRENCH 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, JEWISHST 143)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

AFRICAAM 145B
Foundations of African Studies I (HISTORY 145B)

Cabrita, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

ANTHRO 27N
Ethnicity, Race, and Violence: Anthropological Perspectives (CSRE 27N)

Thiranagama, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 145B
Foundations of African Studies I (AFRICAAM 145B)

Cabrita, J. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

Monday Wednesday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

OSPCPTWN 30
Introducing Cape Town

Africa, A. (PI)
Van Niekerk, M. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPCPTWN 45
Transitional Justice and Transformation Debates in South Africa

Africa, A. (PI)
Van Niekerk, M. (GP)
Scanlon, H. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

OSPCPTWN 67
ICT4D: An Introduction to the Use of ICTs for Development

Africa, A. (PI)
Van Niekerk, M. (GP)

2025 - 2026
Autumn

AFRICAAM 47
History of South Africa (CSRE 74, HISTORY 47)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Kidane, S. (TA)
Virtue, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 147
History of South Africa (CSRE 174, HISTORY 147)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Kidane, S. (TA)
Virtue, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 240
Foundations in African Studies II: Knowledge outside the colonial library

Getz, T. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
1:30 PM
2:50 PM

AFRICAAM 264
Foundations in Global Black Diasporic Studies II: Before and Beyond the Atlantic (COMPLIT 264, CSRE 165A, FRENCH 264E, HISTORY 246E)

Errazzouki, S. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday
1:30 PM
3:20 PM

FRENCH 133
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean (AFRICAAM 133, COMPLIT 133, COMPLIT 233A, CSRE 133E, JEWISHST 143)

BHATTACHARYA, M. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Thursday
4:30 PM
7:20 PM

HISTORY 47
History of South Africa (AFRICAAM 47, CSRE 74)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Kidane, S. (TA)
Virtue, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

HISTORY 147
History of South Africa (AFRICAAM 147, CSRE 174)

Campbell, J. (PI)
Kidane, S. (TA)
Virtue, J. (TA)

2025 - 2026
Winter

Tuesday Thursday
10:30 AM
11:50 AM

AFRICAAM 191
Black History in Islam

Kassim, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Monday Wednesday
3:00 PM
4:20 PM

OSPCPTWN 30
Introducing Cape Town

Africa, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

OSPCPTWN 45
Transitional Justice and Transformation Debates in South Africa

Africa, A. (PI)
Scanlon, H. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

OSPCPTWN 67
ICT4D: An Introduction to the Use of ICTs for Development

Africa, A. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

OSPCPTWN 79
Engaging Southern Cities: Thinking urbanization, development, and public culture from Cape Town

Africa, A. (PI)
Wenz, L. (PI)

2025 - 2026
Spring

Not Currently Offered Courses

Title
Instructor
Quarter
Day, Time, Location

OSPCPTWN 10
Climate Change and Political Violence

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 106A
Global Human Geography: Asia and Africa

2025 - 2026

EDUC 135
Designing Research-Based Interventions to Solve Global Health Problems (EDUC 335)

2025 - 2026

URBANST 144U
Cape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s (AFRICAAM 46, CSRE 46, HISTORY 46S)

2025 - 2026

AFRICAAM 145S
Land and Power in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Africa (CSRE 45S, HISTORY 45S)

2025 - 2026

OSPCPTWN 17
Understanding Liberation Struggles: The US Civil Rights and South African Anti-Apartheid Movements

2025 - 2026

AFRICAAM 243
History of West Africa (FEMGEN 246A, FEMGEN 346A, HISTORY 246A, HISTORY 346A)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 246A
History of West Africa (AFRICAAM 243, FEMGEN 246A, FEMGEN 346A, HISTORY 346A)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 247
Gender and Sexuality in African History (AFRICAAM 247, FEMGEN 247, FEMGEN 347, HISTORY 347)

2025 - 2026

COMPLIT 264
Foundations in Global Black Diasporic Studies II: Before and Beyond the Atlantic (AFRICAAM 264, CSRE 165A, FRENCH 264E, HISTORY 246E)

2025 - 2026

FRENCH 264E
Foundations in Global Black Diasporic Studies II: Before and Beyond the Atlantic (AFRICAAM 264, COMPLIT 264, CSRE 165A, HISTORY 246E)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 346A
History of West Africa (AFRICAAM 243, FEMGEN 246A, FEMGEN 346A, HISTORY 246A)

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 347
Gender and Sexuality in African History (AFRICAAM 247, FEMGEN 247, FEMGEN 347, HISTORY 247)

2025 - 2026

OSPCPTWN 38
Genocide: African Experiences in Comparative Perspective

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 45S
Land and Power in the Anthropocene: Perspectives from Africa (AFRICAAM 145S, CSRE 45S)

2025 - 2026

CSRE 46
Cape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s (AFRICAAM 46, HISTORY 46S, URBANST 144U)

2025 - 2026

POLISCI 46N
Contemporary African Politics

2025 - 2026

HISTORY 46S
Cape to Cairo: Decolonization and African Urban Life 1940s-1960s (AFRICAAM 46, CSRE 46, URBANST 144U)

2025 - 2026

INTNLREL 62Q
Mass Atrocities: Reckoning and Reconciliation

2025 - 2026

OSPCPTWN 77
The Anthropocene in Africa: From Colonialism to Climate Crisis

2025 - 2026