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Arts and Politics of African Urban Space: An Annotated Syllabus
- Africa Today
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 65, Number 4, Summer 2019
- pp. 180-196
- Article
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Abstract:
This article is an annotated version of a course I designed after attending the NEH Institute, "Arts of Survival: Recasting Lives in African Cities." I taught the class as a small seminar during the UC Santa Cruz 2017 Summer Session, in the department of History of Art and Visual Culture (HAVC). In the summer, UC Santa Cruz's normally ten-week courses are compressed down to five weeks. As such, what would be a week of two or three classes during the regular quarter is taught in a single three-and-a-half-hour session. In this article, I first provide the parameters and justifications for the course; I then move through the syllabus, providing key questions for each class session and an instructor's note suggesting how that session could be improved in future iterations; I conclude with a reflection on the overall course.