The goal of this course is to build a strong intellectual foundation for the major as well as promote a sense of community among the majors. Each student takes a two-term senior seminar course. Senior seminars are yearlong working groups of about twelve students directed by a faculty member and organized around a unifying theme or topic selected to reflect student and faculty interests. Each group produces a set of closely related, article-length research papers, with each student's paper being the senior essay. Senior essays should draw on foreign language as well as English sources.
Senior seminars vary from year to year.
Focus on issues of historical, popular and political contention from 1939 to present. Students may pursue Africa in comparison to other regions, African relations with other parts of the world as well as African regional issues or issues specific to any of the 53 African nations. Exploration of the emergence, functioning and consequences of democratization and other political regimes in comparative context. All rights reserved. This site is maintained by Lisa Brennan .