The Department of African Cultural Studies in partnership with the Wisconsin Intensive Summer Language Institutes (WISLI) is proud to announce a new FLAS-eligible online program, African 672: Intensive Summer Multilanguage Seminar. Developed by Professor Katrina …
Courses
African 804: Critical Applied Linguistics (CALx) Working Group
Designed for African Cultural Studies and Second Language Acquisition graduate students who are advisees of Dr. Thompson. Collaborative exploration and discussion of current research and literature on critical approaches to applied linguistics (CALx), including critical …
African 926: Literary Ethnography (Meets with Anthropology 940)
Fall 2019 Katrina Daly Thompson 3 credits W 2-5pm This graduate-level methods seminar is an intensive introduction to reading and writing “new ethnographies”—what H. L. Goodall calls an “emerging, alternative style of qualitative writing” that …
African 605: African Screen Media
A used electronics market near Lagos, Nigeria. Photo from Colors Magazine. Course Description Screens have been the sources of news and narrative, as well as the venues for pedagogy and revolution in Africa since the …
African 606: Francophone Women Voices from Africa and the Middle East
Course Description This course focuses on francophone literature and culture, principally from Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Cameroun), but also from the Middle East (Lebanon and Iran). The legacies of colonialism, the repressive nature of post-independence …
African 605: African Screen Media
COURSE DESCRIPTION Screens have been the sources of news and narrative, as well as the venues for pedagogy and revolution in Africa since the invention of the motion picture. Today, Africa is the home of …
African 407: Critical Approaches to Multilingualism
The goal of this course is to explore various issues related to multilingualism through a framework of Critical Applied Linguistics (CALx). We will examine: the relationship between powerful and marginalized languages; the role of multiple languages …
African 405: Africa + the Internet
Africa, the continent with the world's most concentrated poverty, has been the highest adopter of mobile technology for the past 10 years. Africa's Internet, though hardly reliable, is the world's primary "mobile first" network, and …
African 606: Francophone Women’s Voices from Africa and the Middle East
Course Description This course focuses on francophone literature and culture, principally from Africa (Algeria, Morocco, Senegal, Cameroun), but also from the Middle East (Lebanon and Iran). The legacies of colonialism, the repressive nature of post-independence …
African 407: Critical Approaches to Multilingualism
The goal of this course is to explore various issues related to multilingualism through a framework of Critical Applied Linguistics (CALx). We will examine: the relationship between powerful and marginalized languages; the role of multiple languages …