FYI 100: Fall Schedule, 2002 / T, Th 1-3

Week 1   Tue. Aug 27      Discussion:  Stereotyping Images of Africa

Read: Mengara’s “White Eyes, Dark Reflection,” Said’s “Islam and the West,” Laye’s Dark Child

Note: Read one of the two articles for key concepts

            Thu. Aug 29    Discussion: African Life Perspectives

Eze’s “Modern Philosophy and African Colonialism,” Mbiti’s “The Nature of God,” Laye’s Dark Child

Note: Read one of the two articles for key concepts

Due: In class response paper

Week 2   Tue. Sep  3    Discussion: Precolonialism and Indigenous

      Knowledge: Myth or Reality

                        Read: Laye’s Dark Child

   Thu  Sep  5    Discussion: Islamic Education

Read: Laye’s Dark Child, Hanson’s “Islam and African Societies”

                        Due: In class response paper

Week 3   Tue. Sep 10    Film: The Quest of the Gods

                        Due: 3-page paper on Dark Child

         Thu. Sep 12    Film: Islamic Art

                        Read: Articles to be assigned

Week 4   Tue. Sep 17      Discussion: Islam in Africa (Senegal)

                        Read: Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure

   Thu. Sep 19    Discussion: Traditional and Islamic Religion

                  Read: Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure 

Week 5   Tue. Sep 24    Discussion: African Literature in English

                        Read: Booker’s “The African Novel In English,”

                        Read: Kane’s Ambiguous Adventure

         Thu. Sep 26    Speaker

                        Due: 5-pg paper on Ambiguous Adventure

Week 6   Tue. Oct  1    Discussion: Writing in Arabic

Read: Salih’s “Handful of Dates,” The Wedding of Zein

Thu. Oct  3      Discussion: Storytelling Traditions

                 Read: Salih’s The Wedding of Zein

                       Due: In class response paper

Week 7   Tue. Oct  8   Speaker

                       Due: 5-pg paper on The Wedding of Zein

         Thu. Oct 10   Film:

                       Read: Shafik’s “The History of Arab Cinnema”       

Week 8   Tue. Oct 15   Midterm Break

         Thu. Oct 17   Midterm Break

Week 9   Tue. Oct 22   Discussion: Islam and Women

                       Read: Djebar’s A Sister to Sheherazade

   Thu. Oct 24   Discussion: Djebar’s writing

                       Read: Djebar’s A Sister to Sheherazade

Week 10  Tue. Oct 29   Presentation on Fatima Mernisse

                       Read Mernisse’s

         Thu. Oct 31   Presentation on Fatima Mernisse

                       Read Mernisse’s

Week 11  Tue. Nov  5   Discussion: Moroccon Independence Struggle

                       Read: Abouzeid’s Year of the Elephant

   Thu. Nov  7   Discussion:

                       Read: Abouzeid’s Year of the Elephant

Week 12  Tue. Nov 12   Speaker

                       Due: 5-pg paper on Year of the Elephant

         Thu. Nov 14   Film:

                       Read: “Reel Bad Arabs”

Week 13  Tue. Nov 19   Discussion: Eyptian women writers

                       Saadawi’s Woman at Point Zero

   Thu. Nov 21  Discussion: Feminism and Islam

                      Saadawi”s Woman at Point Zero

Week 14  Tue. Nov 26  Speaker

                      Due: 5-pg paper: a comparative assessment

   Thu. Nov 28  Thanksgiving

Week 15  Tue. Dec  3  Concluding Discussion on the Crossroad of Africa

   Thu. Dec. 5   Concluding Discussion on the Crossroads of Africa

Week 16  Tue. Dec 10   Celebration and Evaluation

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