GRADUATE CERTIFICATE

CERTIFICATE PROGRAM IN AFRICAN STUDIES
for MA and PhD Students

Requirements for the Certificate in African Studies Participants in the certificate program complete a minimum of five (5) Africa-focused courses. Students can pursue a humanities track, a development studies track, a social science track, a languages track, or an agreed-upon combination track. All students are required to take the African Studies Seminar (AFST 701).

Those pursuing the development track take Special Topics in Demography: Change and Continuity in the Fertility and Mortality of Sub-Saharan Africa (DEMG 777), and then choose three (3) more development-related African studies courses (see list below). The following list of courses count toward the course requirement for the African Studies certificate in the corresponding tracks. African language courses including the African Language Tutorial (LING 490) count toward certificates in any of the tracks. NOTE: Any graduate course with an Africa focus will be considered for inclusion in a certificate program, however the final determination will be made by a student's faculty advisor.

Students interested in the certificate program should contact: 1) African Studies Program Coordinator Lynette Loose, 642 Williams Hall/6305 (Telephone: 898-6971), who will register them in the program, and 2) Professor Sandra Barnes (898-3921 or 898-6989) who will assign them a faculty advisor.

Development Related Courses

                    

ANTH 441  Cross-Cultural Approaches to Health (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 459  Nutritional Anthropology (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 527  Food & Population (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 528  Topics in Medical Anthropology (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 591  Demographic Anthropology (Huss-Ashmore)
CPLN 737  Urban Development for Developing Countries and Emerging Economies (Hoek-Smit)
CPLN 738  Field Research Methods in Developing Countries (Hoek-Smit)
DEMG 607  Introduction to Demography (Van de Walle)
DEMG 621  Mortality (Preston, Ewbank)
DEMG 622  Fertility (Morgan)
DEMG 777  Special Topics in African Demography (McDaniel/Van deWalle)
ECON 660  Development Economics (Behrman)
ECON 760  Development Economics: Basic Micro Topics (Behrman)
EDUC 810  Cultural Perspectives on Human Development (Wagner)
EDUC 817  Human Development and National Development in Developing Countries (Wagner)
NURS 516  International Nutrition (Sharman-Bader)
PSCI 417  Religion and Politics of the Third World (Smith)
PSCI 418  Military Politics of the Third World (Smith)
PSCI 465  Contemporary African Politics (Callaghy)
PSCI 532  The Political Economy of North-South Relations (Callaghy)
PSCI 533  Comparative Political and Economic Change (Callaghy)
PPMT 789  State, Politics, and Markets in Less Developed Countries (Pack)
SWRK 750  Comparative Social Welfare (Estes)
WHAR 656  Global Immersion Program: Africa Section (Staff)
All African languages  (2 semesters, including LING 490 - African Language Tutorial)

Humanities Related Courses

                    

ANTH 442  West African State, Society and Culture (Barnes)
ANTH 514  Societies and Cultures of Africa (Kopytoff)
AMES 465  Egyptian Artifacts (Wegner)
AMES 467  Introduction to Egyptian Culture and Archaeology (Staff)
AMES 468  The Religion of Ancient Egypt (Silverman)
AFST 469  Archaeology of Nubia (Wegner)
AMES 547  Egypt and Canaan during the Bronze Age (Oran)
AMES 566  History of Ancient Egypt (Wegner)
AMES 569  Problems in Ancient Egyptian History (Staff)
ARTH 409  African Art in the Diaspora (Staff)
ARTH 610  African Art (Staff)
ENGL 570  Topics in African-American Literature (Baker)
ENGL 572  Topics in African Literature (Barnard)
FOLK 430  African Diasporic Folklore (Abrahams)
FOLK 455  African Folklore (Ben-Amos)
FOLK 503  Issues of Folklore Theory (Staff)
FOLK 530  Afro-American Folklore (Roberts)
FOLK 531  Prose Narrative (Ben-Amos)
FOLK 629  Theories of Myth (Ben-Amos)
FREN 693  Africa Looks to Europe (Moudileno)
HIST 498  Africa and the Islamic World (Staff)
HIST 507  Modern African History (Cassanelli)
HIST 615  Colonialism, Culture and Power (Staff)
HIST 630  African History: Core Issues of Social Process (Feierman)
LING 502  Introduction to Field Linguistics (Liberman)
MUSC 403  The Music and Performance of Africa (Staff)
MUSC 605  Anthropology of Music (Staff)
MUSC 705  Popular Music in Cross-Cultural Perpsective (Staff)
PHIL 438  African Philosophical Thought (Staff)
All African Languages (2 semesters, including LING 490 - African Lang. Tutorial)

Language Courses

The requirement for an African Studies Certificate in the Language track is, in addition to AFST 701: Four (4) semesters of African language study, either 2 semesters each of 2 different languages or 4 semesters of the same language.

Social Science Courses

ANTH 441  Cross-Cultural Approaches to Health (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 442  West African State, Society and Culture (Barnes)
ANTH 459  Nutritional Anthropology (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 514  Societies and Cultures of Africa (Kopytoff)
ANTH 527  Food & Population (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 528  Topics in Medical Anthropology (Huss-Ashmore)
ANTH 591  Demographic Anthropology (Huss-Ashmore)
CPLN 737  Urban Dev. for Developing Countries & Emerging Economies (Hoek-Smit)
CPLN 738  Field Research Methods in Developing Countries (Hoek-Smit)
DEMG 607  Introduction to Demography (van de Walle)
DEMG 777  Special Topics in Demography: Sub-Saharan Africa (Van de Walle, McDaniel)
ECON 660  Development Economics (Behrman)
ECON 760  Development Economics: Basic Micro Topics (Behrman)
EDUC 810  Cultural Perspectives on Human Development (Wagner)
EDUC 817  Human Dev. & Nat'l Dev. in Developing Countries (Wagner)
HIST 507  Modern African History (Cassanelli)
HIST 630  African History: Core Issues of Social Process (Feierman)
HSSC 438  Who Owns the Past? (Kuklick)
HSSC 539  Science and Colonialism (Kuklick)
HSSC 545  Comparative Medicine (Feierman)
LING 502  Introduction to Field Linguistics (Liberman)
NURS 516  International Nutrition (Sharman)
PSCI 417  Religion and Politics of the Third World (Smith)
PSCI 418  Military Politics of the Third World (Smith)
PSCI 465  Contemporary African Politics (Callaghy)
PSCI 532  The Political Economy of North-South Relations (Callaghy)
PSCI 533  Comparative Political and Economic Change (Callaghy)
SWRK 750  Comparative Social Welfare (Estes)
WHAR 656  Global Immersion Program: Africa Section (Staff)
All African Languages  (2 semesters, including LING 490 - African Lang. Tutorial)

Do you have any questions or comments? Please contact us at africa@sas.upenn.edu.