PS 80 - INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY AFRICA

    Recent Professors
    M. Lovett
    Recent Semesters
    Fall 2024
    Class Size
    45 students
    Credits
    3
    Fall 2024 Sections
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    Transfers To
    UC and CSUCal-GETC Area 4 · IGETC Area 4F · IGETC Area 4H · CSU GE Area D7
    Description
    This course challenges stereotypes and misperceptions about Africa and its history. It focuses on the political achievements of African kingdoms and empires, economic innovation and adaptation, resilience in the face of European incursions in the forms of the slave trade and colonial rule, the relationship between Africa and the rest of the world, responses to contemporary challenges, and the ways in which Africans created for themselves vibrant modern cultures, states and societies. Also listed as HIST 80, credit may be earned for either course, not both.