Courses in English
AIFS students can choose from courses in English in the following areas:
Art
Culture: Music and Wine
Drama
Economics
English
Foreign Languages
History
Management and Marketing
Philosophy
Political Science
Sociology
Theology
Stellenbosch University expands its course offerings in English each year. Students should contact AIFS for an updated list of courses before the start of each semester, as the course listings change on a regular basis. This sample list of courses available in English is tentative and subject to change. Recommended credits are in parentheses.
Stellenbosch University students begin at the equivalent of the U.S. sophomore level; therefore, the University's course numbers are equivalent to one level higher than the U.S. University course numbers are listed first, followed by the American equivalent.
July-November semester courses
| July-November semester courses | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Afrikaans: Language and Culture 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Afrikaans for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| Basic Afrikaans for foreigners. Enables students to listen with growing comprehension to everyday social conversation, speak and develop vocabulary as well as read basic Afrikaans. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Xhosa: Language and Culture 114/214 (2) |
| Course Title: | Xhosa for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| A communicative approach develops the language skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, within a cultural context. Students learn the basics of the Xhosa language and culture (includes visits to various Xhosa communities, restaurants and church services). | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Biodiversity and Ecology 344/444 (4) |
| Course Title: | Population and Community Ecology |
| Course Description: | |
| Students are taught how to use quantitative methods to analyze problems relating to natural populations and communities. The population ecology section covers factors influencing population growth, structure and dynamics; matrix modeling of populations; metapopulations; factors causing the extinction of species. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Conservation Ecology 242/342 (3) |
| Course Title: | Conservation Censuring |
| Course Description: | |
| The basic skills in natural history and the identification of the most important plant and animal groups. Monitoring and survey techniques for major plant and animal groups. The importance of indicator, umbrella, keystone and flagship species for conservation; plant/animal-habitat relationships; indices of species richness and species diversity; indices of community similarity and differences. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Conservation Ecology 344/444 (4) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Conservation Management |
| Course Description: | |
| Subjects covered include the history of people and their relationships with their environments; the history and philosophy of conservation; environmental ethics; environmental problems; introductory conservation biology; conservation planning; soil uses; hydrology and catchment management; fire ecology and management; ecotourism and recreation. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | French 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | French for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| After completing the French evening course, a student should be able to talk about himself, his life and surroundings, the weather, his likes and dislikes and other basic conversational topics; understand basic texts; write a friendly letter; understand and react to a basic conversation in French; and listen to French songs as well as other basic recordings. This course is offered for beginners; no prior knowledge of French is required. It is not for degree purposes. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | German 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | German for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| After completing the German evening course, a student should be able to talk about himself/herself, his/her life and surroundings, the weather, likes and dislikes and other basic conversational topics; understand simple basic texts; understand and react to a basic conversation in German; listen to basic recordings in German (songs, news, weather report etc.); and write a short letter or e-mail. This course is offered for beginners; no prior knowledge of German is required. It is not for degree purposes. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 144/244 (3) |
| Course Title: | Survey of South African History |
| Course Description: | |
| Topics include: the settlement of population groups in South Africa; the historical significance of 19th century migrations; the Mineral Revolution and its impact on modern South Africa; Afrikaner nationalism as a historical factor; segregation and apartheid; black nationalism and politics in the 20th century; South Africa and the outside world. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 241/341 (3) |
| Course Title: | Overview of South African History |
| Course Description: | |
| An overview of the political and economic history of South Africa. A study of South African history from the early history of black people to the development of apartheid and South Africa as a developing country in Africa. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 244/344 (3) |
| Course Title: | Africa and South Africa: Colonialization and the Rearrangement of Societies |
| Course Description: | |
| Topics include: Africa and the West in the 19th century; colonial policies in Africa; political, cultural and economic impact of the colonialization of Africa in the 19th century; South Africa in the 18th and 19th centuries; the political and cultural dynamics of the 18th and 19th century Cape societies; the establishment of new black empires and white republics in the interior in the 19th century; and the Mineral Revolution: the making of a new political and cultural society. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Mandarin 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | Mandarin for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| After completing the Mandarin evening course, a student should have a basic knowledge of contemporary life in the People’s Republic of China and be able to talk about himself/herself, his/her life and surroundings, the weather, likes and dislikes and other basic conversational topics; read approximately 200 Chinese characters; understand and react to a basic conversation in Mandarin; write a short note. This course is offered for beginners; no prior knowledge of Mandarin is required. It is not for degree purposes. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 142/242 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Politics |
| Course Description: | |
| The process of political transition to democracy in South Africa, party policies, elections, the interim government of national unity and the constitutions of 1993 and 1996. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 152/252 (3) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to African Politics |
| Course Description: | |
| State formation in Africa: the delimitation of land and boundaries; population composition and independence; the influence of external factors such as colonialism on state formation; decolonization and its internal dynamics, e.g. nationalism and resistance; the classification of modern African systems, e.g. multiparty, one-party, Marxist and military regimes; the most recent trends including external and internal pressure to democratize. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 244/344 (3) |
| Course Title: | Economic and Development Problems in South Africa and Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| Main themes are the characteristics of the South African Economy, South Africa and Africa in the context of global capitalism, South Africa’s prosperous years from 1934 to 1974, South Africa’s political and economic crisis from 1974 to 1994, the socio-economic legacy of colonialism, segregation and apartheid, the rise of the black elite and its relationships with the white elite and the black proletariat. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 311/411 (3) |
| Course Title: | Politics and Cultural Change in Contemporary South Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| Topics include culture, ethnocentrism and relativism, the relationship between western medicine and traditional medicine, witchcraft and the state in Africa, conquest and migrant labor in South Africa, apartheid and Africans in the city and the cultural effects of urbanization on the African family. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 312/412 (3) |
| Course Title: | Conflict Resolution |
| Course Description: | |
| Conflict is an inevitable part of life. The destructivity and violence usually associated it with it are not quite as inevitable. Difference, contradictory needs, deeply held grievance, and even rage – all represent an extraordinary resource for challenging assumptions, prompting innovative thinking and, paradoxically, bringing people together into creative systems of cooperation. The envisaged course provides an introduction to the rapidly growing field broadly known as conflict resolution, inviting critical analysis of conflict resolution principles at work in several actual political processes, including the negotiations that ushered in a democratic South Africa. It also involves a substantial practical component, in which students will learn and then try out various strategies for handling interpersonal conflict. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 322/422 (3) |
| Course Title: | Justice in Conflict Societies |
| Course Description: | |
| Among the many challenges facing societies emerging out of war is how to address the burden of past violations of human rights. History is filled with examples of societies that choose to ignore past atrocities and then find themselves battling familiar patterns of conflict: different actors, same problems. Those societies that do choose to confront the past are in turn confronted with a variety of dilemmas: Who do you prosecute – foot soldiers, generals, politicians, ideologues or beneficiaries? How do you prosecute when the legal infrastructure has been destroyed by war? What are the risks of prosecution in an unstable society? | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 333/433 (3) |
| Course Title: | Negotiating Transition |
| Course Description: | |
| A moment of opportunity sometimes emerges in the course of a conflict in which belligerents show signs of a willingness to break from old patterns of waging war and to consider imaginative alternatives. The rhetoric of war has become tired and unconvincing. Scenarios for transitions have not yet been envisaged but an openness is growing on-the-ground to explore alternatives to military solutions. This is the most fragile, complex and opportune moment in any peace process. It holds extraordinary potential for the design of strategic, sequenced arrangements with the capacity to grow a thoroughgoing peace. South Africa is widely acknowledged for having seized one such historic opportunity, pre-empting a final showdown and instead embracing a range of transitional options – many of which are still being developed over a decade into democracy. Numerous other societies have sought to undo deeply embedded patterns of war by establishing transitional arrangements – the Congo, Rwanda, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Cambodia, and the Balkans - the list continues to grow as war-impacted people everywhere seek out creative alternatives to the destructivity of war. “Negotiating Transition” is designed to expose students a range of strategies for transition beginning with the South African transition and developing comparative analysis across a wide variety of other contexts in Africa and elsewhere. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 344/444 (3) |
| Course Title: | The Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| Course Description: | |
| “The first casualty of war is truth,” the saying goes. And as war progresses, truth gets quickly forgotten: propaganda quickly takes over open debate, war develops its own logic – often bound up in competing grievances and justification of atrocious actions - and everyday people caught in the fighting do whatever it takes to preserve life, limb, family, a few friends .. When the fighting eventually stops, the winners write the history books and the losers become resentful, dreaming of a day when their version of what happened will be told. Thus, the history underlying the conflict, the original grievance, the logic of recrimination and the trauma resulting from the war itself – all this remains unaddressed. The course introduces students to the role of truth in peacemaking initiatives, develops a comparative analysis of truth seeking institutions in a variety of historical contexts, including South Africa, and invites students to engage critically and strategically with a number of contemporary challenges. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 178/278 (3) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Movement, Speech, Acting and Technical Theater |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 278/378 (3) |
| Course Title: | Stage and Media Performance |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 388/488 (3) |
| Course Title: | Advanced Training in Technical and Managerial Aspects of Theater Production |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Studies 352/452 (3) |
| Course Title: | Media and Film: Film Directors and Film Making |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theology 344/444 (3) |
| Course Title: | Public and Theology in Post Apartheid South Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| The challenges of the young democratic society (state, market, civil society and the sphere of public opinion) in post apartheid South Africa is described and reflected upon from a theological perspective. Poverty, HIV/AIDS, racism, sexism, the morality crisis and the creation of a human rights culture. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Viticulture 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to the South African Wine Industry |
| Course Description: | |
| The lectures cover South African wine history, viticulture, the winemaking process and how wine works with food. Lectures include the following: Lecture 1: History of wine; Cape wine before the 20th Century; Wine Companies; Wine Industry Lecture 2: Introduction to viticulture, factors affecting wine production; wine of origin; vinification Lecture 3: Vinification; making red and white wine; sparkling and fortified wines Lecture 4: Food and wine; sensible drinking; Cape wine masters; Nose Guide | |
English courses July-November
The following are taught as lecture courses or electives. Lectures are formal, with no written work, but require a final test. Electives are seminars, in small discussion groups with written work and one major essay.
| Lectures | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 214/314 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Poetry |
| Course Description: | |
| Special attention to the works of Thomas Pringle, Roy Campbell, William Plomer, Guy Butler, Oswald Mtshali, M.W. Serote, Chris van Wyk, Jeremy Cronin, Ingrid de Kok, Tatamkhulu Afrika, Stephen Watson, Seitlhamo Motsapi, Lesego Rampholokeng and Malika Ndlovu. Topics include identity, home and exile, language and the land and politics and poetry. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 222/322 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Critical Theory |
| Course Description: | |
| Addresses the way South Africans, through literature and philosophy, have dreamt the country into being, or because of the tendency towards prescriptive or grossly utilitarian procedures, have inhibited such progress. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 241/341(3) |
| Course Title: | South African Literature |
| Course Description: | |
| Damon Galgut’s 1991 novel The Beautiful Screaming of Pigs reflects the tensions and uncertainties of the 1980s, with South Africa in a state of war. The central character is faced with problems of sexual and political identity through his experience of the Border War, the aftermath of which finds him in a difficult readjustment process. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 242/342 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Literature |
| Course Description: | |
| Mandla Langa’s 1989 novel A Rainbow On The Paper Sky is concerned with region, racial-political issues and concerns of family and culture during a period of crisis and change in South Africa. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 245/345 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Cultural Studies |
| Course Description: | |
| Examines the critical and cultural representations of South Africa within a domestic and global context. Set against the Manichean orthodoxies of colonialism and apartheid—regimes that continue to influence South Africa—this course addresses the critical and artistic visions of those who have paved the way for a “new” South Africa. Njabulo Ndebele, Nadine Gordimer, JM Coetzee and Leon de Kock. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 255/355 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Drama |
| Course Description: | |
| Three South African plays are studied: Fugard, Kani and Ntshona’s The Island, Fugard’s Master Harold and the Boys and Brett Bailey’s Ipi Zombi? The production history of the plays and how they attempt to comment on issues relevant to South African society | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 314/414 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African Literature |
| Course Description: | |
| The changing face of the South African city. Illustrates some of the ways cities and stories are similar. Examines how the city of Johannesburg has been represented in South African writing. Phaswane Mpe’s Welcome to our Hillbrow, and Ivan Vladislavic’s Propaganda by Monuments, short stories by Njabulo Ndebele and Jonathan Morgan’s Great African Spider Writers. | |
| Electives | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 210/310 (3) |
| Course Title: | Island Utopias |
| Course Description: | |
| Overview of issues raised by Robinson Crusoe and Gulliver’s Travels in the 18th century. Explores different styles of writing. Main themes are: post-colonialism, island experiences, power in both the personal and public realm and gender issues. Texts for this course are J.M. Coetzee’s Foe, William Shakespeare’s The Tempest and William Golding’s Lord of the Flies. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 211/311 (3) |
| Course Title: | Representations of Slavery in South Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| Examines the way slaves have been represented over time in South Africa, particularly the Cape. The process of writing history, as well as the relationship between history and the novel that attempts to make sense of that history, will be examined. Main text is The Slave Book by Rayda Jacobs. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 213/313 (3) |
| Course Title: | Travels in Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| Analysis of 20th century African travel writings, examining the position of the traveler in relation to what is described, travel and the making of identity, construction of the other in a dialectic of negation and the crossing of borders as a form of translation and transgression. Graham Greene, Journey without Maps, Dan Jacobson, The Electronic Elephant: A Southern African Journey, Shiva Naipaul, North of South: An African Journey, Laurens van der Post, Venture to the Interior. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 214/314 (3) |
| Course Title: | Post-Apartheid Narratives |
| Course Description: | |
| Over ten years after South Africa’s first democratic elections, the question ‘what has changed?’ could not be more relevant. Overview of the concepts of apartheid, democracy and transition. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Spanish 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Spanish for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| Games, music, role-playing, movies and even some gym are used to make this learning experience fun. The content is related to every day life situations. Functional use of the language, as well as grammar, lexicon and cultural themes. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Art 106/206 (4) |
| Course Title: | Photography |
| Course Description: | |
| Examines three photographic practices that are relevant to the Southern African context, namely social documentary, portraiture and fine art photography. Combined with a practical photographic project to be completed during the course. Includes basic technical information about the camera and photography to enable students to complete the practical component. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Art 107/207 (4) |
| Course Title: | Jewelry Design |
| Course Description: | |
| Introduction to the basic techniques of design and manufacture of jewelry as an art form. Demonstrations and guided work-time in the form of set projects. Creative design interpretations focus on the important elements of metal techniques, which are accuracy and precision, neatness in finishing and presentation. Both new trends and historic roots of jewelry are examined. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 324/424 (3) |
| Course Title: | Comparative African Politics and Democratization |
| Course Description: | |
| Contemporary political trends in Africa and Southern Africa (the SADC region and Africa south of the equator including Angola, Zaire, Tanzania, Mauritius and the Seychelles), patterns of democratization and election issues. South Africa compared with other countries in Africa. Case studies: Three African cases (Zimbabwe, Nigeria and South Africa) compared with three non-African cases (China, Turkey and Russia). | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Spanish 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Spanish for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| The method is informal using games, music, role-playing, movies and even some gym to make this learning experience a fun one. The contents are related to everyday life situations. Main focus is on speech comprehension and writing. | |
February-June semester courses
| February-June semester courses | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Afrikaans: Language and Culture 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Afrikaans for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Xhosa: Language and Culture 114/214 (2) |
| Course Title: | Xhosa for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Conservation Ecology 212/312 (3) |
| Course Title: | Conserving Nature |
| Course Description: | |
| Covers the importance of biodiversity for the maintenance of ecosystems; co-evolution and the collapse of ecosystems and ecosystem services; water conservation; the tragedy of the commons and tenure issues in resource conservation; the medicinal value of biodiversity; conservation decision-making; and the role of conservation in development and policy. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Conservation Ecology 314/414 (4) |
| Course Title: | Biome Ecology |
| Course Description: | |
| Introduces students to the major biomes that occur in South Africa, including the ecology of tropical and afromontane forests, woodlands and savannas, grasslands and other treeless regions such as karoo and deserts. Emphasis is placed on understanding what mechanisms underlie the differences in these vegetation types, plusmosaic plant growth dynamics, wildlife-habitat interactions and the management and control of biological invasions. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | French 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | French for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | German 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | German for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to the Main Global Patterns and Developments in History |
| Course Description: | |
| Topics include Nomadic societies, agriculture revolution and the emergence of established societies, the development of complex societies, the emergence of modernity and the industrial revolution, the historical construction of the modern globalizing world. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 214/314 (3) |
| Course Title: | Key Processes in the Making of Western History |
| Course Description: | |
| Topics include: State formation, the renaissance and revolutions; origins of the modern state; the renaissance as a cultural phenomenon; origins, dynamics and impact of historical revolutions; wealth and poverty in western history; and perspectives on systems such as socialism, capitalism and communism. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 244/344 (3) |
| Course Title: | South African History |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | History 318/418 (3) |
| Course Title: | Wars, Decolonization and Globalization |
| Course Description: | |
| Subjects discussed are international relations and cultural change; the social and cultural dimensions of WWI; the outbreak, course and aftermath of WWII; ecological problems in historical perspective; the Cold War; independence movements in Africa and India and Africa in a globalizing world. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Mandarin 114/214 (3) |
| Course Title: | Mandarin for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 244/344 (3) |
| Course Title: | Economic and Development Problems in South Africa and Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 311/411 (3) |
| Course Title: | Politics and Cultural Change in Contemporary South Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 312/412 (3) |
| Course Title: | Conflict Resolution |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 322/422 (3) |
| Course Title: | Justice in Conflict Societies |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 324/424 (3) |
| Course Title: | Comparative African Politics and Democratization |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 333/433 (3) |
| Course Title: | Negotiating Transition |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Political Science 344/444 (3) |
| Course Title: | The Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 178/278 (3) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to Movement, Speech, Acting and Technical Theater |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 222/322 (3) |
| Course Title: | History and Characters of Eastern and African Theater |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 278/378 (3) |
| Course Title: | Stage and Media Performance |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Arts 388/488 (3) |
| Course Title: | Advanced Training in Technical and Managerial Aspects of Theater Production |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theater Studies 352/452 (3) |
| Course Title: | Media and Film: Film Directors and Film Making |
| Course Description: | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Theology 344/444 (3) |
| Course Title: | Public Theology in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Viticulture 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Introduction to the South African Wine Industry |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
English courses February-June
The following are taught as lecture courses or electives. Lectures are formal, with no written work, but require a final test. Electives are seminars, in small discussion groups with written work and one major essay.
| Lectures | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 211/222 (3) |
| Course Title: | African Literature |
| Course Description: | |
| Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is used to discuss African literature more broadly. Ben Okri’s collection of short stories, The Stars of the New Curfew, are discussed in light of concerns of “post-colonialism” and the departures from “realism” towards “magic realism.” Bessie Head’s Maru and Shimmer and Chinodya’s Harvest of Thorns are also analyzed. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 212/312 (3) |
| Course Title: | Post-Colonial Literature and Theory |
| Course Description: | |
| Analysis of the different critical responses to Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, George Lamming’s In the Castle of My Skin and Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things. The authors’ own extensions of ‘post-colonial’ insights, including their trenchant criticism of indigenous power structures and of neo-colonial coaptation strategies are discussed. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 213/313 (3) |
| Course Title: | African Literature |
| Course Description: | |
| Works of the Nigerian Chinua Achebe, including No Longer At Ease, and the Zimbabwean Yvonne Vera, The Stone Virgins, balance perspectives from very different parts of the African continent, as well as contrast a largely urban setting with a largely rural setting, young male with young female experiences, government and bureaucracy with war and violence. Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat examines the next phase in the history of colonialism: the transition to independence in Africa. Doris Lessing’s The Grass is Singing, a powerful exploration of late colonialism, examines the dilemmas faced by women in oppressive society. | |
| Electives | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Art 106/206 (4) |
| Course Title: | Photography |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November electives. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Art 107/207 (4) |
| Course Title: | Jewelry Design |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 214/314 (3) |
| Course Title: | An Awful, Triumphant Separateness? Apartheid and the Literary Imagination |
| Course Description: | |
| Discusses the extent to which colonialism and apartheid succeeded in creating a Manichean divide between white and black, self and other, victim and oppressor. Explores these issues though a variety of literary texts, including poetry, short stories and a play. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 215/315 (3) |
| Course Title: | Women Writers Interrogating Empire: Atlantic Crossings |
| Course Description: | |
| Texts for discussion are Toni Morrison’s Beloved, Zoe Wicomb’s You Can’t Get Lost in Cape Town and Bessie Head’s A Question of Power. Possible essay texts are Toni Cade Bambara’s The Salt Eaters or Gayl Jones’s Corregidora. Issues of power, race, gender, repression and representation are discussed. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | English 216/316 (3) |
| Course Title: | Magical Realism and the Post-Colonial Novel |
| Course Description: | |
| Explores historical and methodological issues that arise in trying to define magical realism. Main texts are Ben Okri’s The Famished Road and Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. Concludes with recent magical realist short stories from Latin America and South Africa. | |
| Course Code and Credits: | Spanish 104/204 (3) |
| Course Title: | Spanish for Beginners |
| Course Description: | |
| See description under July-November semester courses. | |