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| Course ID: | CMLT(SWAH)(AFST)(ANTH) 3020. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Culture and Identity Linkages of the Swahili with the Outside World II | Course
Description: | Development of the Swahili culture. Topics on religion, politics,
literacy, language, clothing, food, and music as well as outside
influences from Arab nations, Asia, Europe, and America on the
indigenous Swahili culture will be explored. Attention will be
given to African American political, religious, and other social
issues. | | Oasis Title: | The Swahili and the World II | | Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in CMLT 3020E, SWAH 3020E, AFST 3020E, ANTH 3020E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | Course Objectives: | This class is designed to introduce students to the meaning
and relationship between culture, language ideology, gender,
economy, religion, and politics through the eyes of the Swahili
people. At the end of the course, students will be able to
understand and explain historically engineered global
influences on the Swahili culture, gender issues entrenched in
the formation of the Swahili identity, the role of language in
political, academic, cultural, and religious phenomenon.
Students will especially learn the meaning and connection
between Kwanzaa and political, religious, and other identity
issues of African Americans as they relate to the Swahili
people and the language. | | Topical Outline: | 1. Who are the Swahili?
2. Language ideology
3. Colonial linguistic legacy to Africa
4. Africa’s linguistic legacy between expansion and
nationalism
5. Language, race in the black experience: An African
perspective
6. African languages in the African American experience
7. What does Kwanzaa have to do with Swahili?
8. Linguistic Euro centrism and African counter penetration
9. Language and the quest for liberation: The legacy of Franz
Fanon
10. Language in a multicultural context: The African
experience
11. Language planning and gender planning
12. Language policy and foundations of democracy: An African
perspective
13. Language policy and the rule of law in Anglophone Africa
14. Dominant language in a plural society
15. A tale of two English - The imperial language in
postcolonial Kenya and Uganda
16. Roots of Kiswahili: Colonialism and nationalism
17. The Secularization of an Afro-Islamic language: Church
state and marketplace in the spread of Kiswahili
18. The linguistic balance sheet- Post-cold war, post-
apartheid
19. The three Swahili women
20. Influential Swahili women: Wangari Maathai- Nobel peace
prize winner | | Honor Code Reference: | Students are required to abide by the University of Georgia academic honesty policy. | |
| Course ID: | CMLT(SWAH)(AFST)(ANTH) 3020E. 3 hours. |
| Course Title: | Culture and Identity Linkages of the Swahili with the Outside World II |
Course
Description: | Development of the Swahili culture. Topics on religion, politics,
literacy, language, clothing, food, and music as well as outside
influences from Arab nations, Asia, Europe, and America on the
indigenous Swahili culture will be explored. Attention will be
given to African American political, religious, and other social
issues. |
| Oasis Title: | The Swahili and the World II |
| Duplicate Credit: | Not open to students with credit in CMLT 3020, SWAH 3020, AFST 3020, ANTH 3020 |
| Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. |
Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. |
| Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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| Course Objectives: | This class is designed to introduce students to the meaning and
relationship between culture, language ideology, gender,
economy, religion, and politics through the eyes of the Swahili
people. At the end of the course, students will be able to
understand and explain historically engineered global influences
on the Swahili culture, gender issues entrenched in the
formation of the Swahili identity, the role of language in
political, academic, cultural, and religious phenomenon.
Students will especially learn the meaning and connection
between Kwanzaa and political, religious, and other identity
issues of African Americans as they relate to the Swahili people
and the language. |
| Topical Outline: | 1. Who are the Swahili?
2. Language ideology
3. Colonial linguistic legacy to Africa
4. Africa’s linguistic legacy between expansion and nationalism
5. Language, race in the black experience: An African perspective
6. African languages in the African American experience
7. What does Kwanzaa have to do with Swahili?
8. Linguistic Eurocentrism and African counter penetration
9. Language and the quest for liberation: The legacy of Franz
Fanon
10. Language in a multicultural context: The African experience
11. Language planning and gender planning
12. Language policy and foundations of democracy: An African
perspective
13. Language policy and the rule of law in Anglophone Africa
14. Dominant language in a plural society
15. A tale of two Englishes - The imperial language in
postcolonial Kenya and Uganda
16. Roots of Kiswahili: Colonialism and nationalism
17. The Secularization of an Afro-Islamic language: Church state
and marketplace in the spread of Kiswahili
18. The linguistic balance sheet- Post-cold war, post-apartheid
19. The three Swahili women
20. Influential Swahili women: Wangari Maathai- Nobel peace
prize winner |
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