Seattle Campus Topics in History Seminar on selected topics in general history, with special emphasis on preparation for field examinations.
Topics vary according to interests of students and instructor.
Over the past decade, a number of philosophers, novelists, and social scientists have interrogated the foundational concepts and categories of African studies. Examination of these themes will enable us to cast African studies in critical perspective by raising issues that have been of central concern to a wide range of artists and scholars both within and outside Africa. Forced and voluntary migrations have long been crucial processes in shaping cultural and social landscapes across Africa. Economic and political challenges and crises since decolonization have only intensified migration streams. Over the past thirty years, the numbers of refugees have climbed into the millions, and more people have moved both temporarily and permanently from their rural homelands, and even the continent, in search of secure livelihoods for themselves and their extended families.