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HUM 211 Online Course Pack Index - Winter 2010
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Tentative REV: Maybe David Visiko will be able to come to our class on Wed., 3/3 or Wed. 3/10, first part of class to do presentation/demonstration of African drumming:
" . . . I have studied from master drummers for the past 7-8 years. My training includes studying from 2 grand master players from Guinea and a 4 week stint in Guinea, West Africa back in 2005. I would really enjoy coming out to your class, preferably on a Wednesday. . . . I could easily fill up 20-30 minutes of time with playing, DVD, some demonstration, history of the djembe, talk about the rhythms and the context of why they are played in the traditional village life." --David Visiko, 2/19/10 Email to Cora

UNIT 1 REQUIRED READINGS (See related Graded Assignment: SEMINAR #1)

1.1 Images of Africa & African History ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/imagesofAfrica.htm

1.2 African Timelines Part I: Ancient Africa ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline.htm
OR African Timelines Part II: African Empires ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline2.htm

1.3 Culture, Religion, and Myth: Interdisciplinary Approaches ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/culture.htm

1.4 Cross-Cultural Study: Some Considerations ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/crossculture.htm

For your reference:
--Africa Maps ONLINE: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/AfricaMaps.htm
--African Literary Map (some works & peoples studied in past/current HUM 211) ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/literarymap.htm
--Intro Maps ppt: http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/IntroMaps.ppt

UNIT 2 REQUIRED READINGS (See related Graded Assignment: SEMINAR #2)

2.1 African Storytelling ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm

2.2 In Praise of the Word: Traditional African Oral Arts ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/praiseword.htm

2.3 African Praise Songs: Traditional African Oral Arts ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/praisesongs.htm

2.4 Example Student Praise Songs [from past HUM 211 classes]:
--HUM 211 Student Praise Songs - Fall 2000 & Winter 2003 ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/studentpraise.htm
--HUM 211 Student Praise Songs - Fall 2004 ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/studentpraisef04.htm

Unit 3. Keita: Heritage of the Griot (Winter 2010 Course Plan: Weeks #2 & #3)

UNIT 3 REQUIRED READINGS (See Related Graded Assignments: KEITA FILM ANALYSIS & IN-CLASS SEMINAR #3)

3.1 Epic of Sundjata ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/sundjata.htm

3.2 Keita Film Notes & Viewing Guide ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Keitafilmnotes.htm

UNIT 3 REQUIRED FILM VIEWING:

Keita: The Heritage of the Griot. [French title: Keita! L'héritage du griot.] Burkina Faso & France, 1994. Dir. Dani Kouyaté [b. 1961, Bobo Dioulasso, Burkina Faso]. Perf. Seydou Boro, Hamed Dicko, Abdoulaye Komboudri, Sotigui Kouyaté. Afix Productions-California Newsreel, 1994. Videotape & DVD. [In Jula and French, with English subtitles; Run time: approx. 94 min.]

For Your Reference:
--African Oral Epics: OralEpic03.ppt [In-Class PowerPoint Presentation] ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/OralEpic03.ppt

Recommended Reading:
--"Keita: The Heritage of the Griot," by California Newsreel [essay] ONLINE:
    http://www.newsreel.org/nav/title.asp?tc=CN0050&s=Keita
--"Keita: The Heritage of the Griot: Notes for Viewing the Film,"
    by California Newsreel [facilitator guide] ONLINE:
    http://www.newsreel.org/guides/keita.htm
--"Viewing African Cinema: Six Pointers," by California Newsreel ONLINE:
     http://www.newsreel.org/articles/pointers.htm
--"The Significance of the Griot," by Eli Smith [Hum 211 Student Essay, Fall 2000] ONLINE:
    http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/smith.htm
--"The Past to Future Keita," by Dawn Hendrix [Hum 211 Student Essay, Fall 1998] ONLINE:
      http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/hendrix.htm

Unit 4. African Holocaust & Diaspora, and
I Is a Long-Memoried Woman (Winter 2010 Course Plan: Weeks #3 & #4)

UNIT 4 REQUIRED READINGS (See related Graded Assignment: SEMINAR #4)

4.1 African Holocaust & Diaspora ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/diaspora.htm

4.2 African Timelines Part III: African Slave Trade & European Imperialism ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline3.htm

4.3 Olaudah Equiano ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/equiano.htm

4.4 I Is a Long Memoried Woman Film Notes & Viewing Guide ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/womanfilmnotes.htm

UNIT 4 REQUIRED FILM VIEWING:

I Is a Long Memoried Woman. Arts Council of England, U.K., 1990. Dir. Frances-Anne Solomon [b. Trinidad]. Based on the poetry of Grace Nichols [b. Guyana]. Narr. & Perf. Adjoa Andoh and Leonie Forbes. LedaSerene/Women Make Movies, 1990. [Videotape.] LedaSerene/Yod Video, 1991. [Videotape] Leda Serene Films, 2004. DVD.
[In Creole and English. Runtime: approx. 50 min. Audience: High School to Adult.]

For Your Reference:
-- Amistad (Under Construction) TBA

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Recommended Online Resources:
Linder, Douglas O. Famous American Trials: Amistad Trials, 1839-1840. 2000. U of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law.
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/amistad/AMISTD.HTM
Part of: Linder, Douglas O. Famous Trials Website (1997 to present), 2009: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm

Unit 5. European Colonialism & Things Fall Apart: Part One, by Chinua Achebe
(Winter 2010 Course Plan: Weeks #4 - #6)
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UNIT 5 REQUIRED READINGS (See related Graded Assignments: THINGS FALL APART NOVEL ANALYSIS & IN-CLASS SEMINAR #5)

5.1 Chinua Achebe,Things Fall Apart: Part One, Chs. 1 - 13, pp. 2-74, IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2008.

5.2 Maps: "Nigeria, Showing the Igbo Area" & "Igboland, Showing the Major Places Listed in Things Fall Apart," pp. 222-223, IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2008.

5.3 Don C. Ohadike, "Igbo Culture and History," pp. 236-257, IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2008.

5.4 African Timelines Part IV: Anti-Colonialism & Reconstruction ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline4.htm

5.5 Simon Gikandi, "Chinua Achebe and the Invention of African Literature," pp. 297-303 IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2008.

Recommended for Review:
--2.1 African Storytelling ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/afrstory.htm

Recommended
Things Fall Apart Reading Guide ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/TFA.htm

Recommended: "Overview of Things Fall Apart"

Bennett, Robert. “An Overview of Things Fall Apart.” [From Exploring Novels, Gale, 1998.] Literature Resource Center [full-text article]. Gale. Central Oregon Community College Barber Library, Bend, OR. 20 Oct. 2007.

Unit 6. Things Fall Apart: Parts Two & Three, by Chinua Achebe,
(Winter 2010 Course Plan: Weeks #5 & #6)
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UNIT 6 REQUIRED READINGS: (See related Graded Assignments: THINGS FALL APART NOVEL ANALYSIS & IN-CLASS SEMINAR #5)

6.1 Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart: PartsTwo & Three, Chs. 14 - 25, pp. 75 - 117, IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2008.

6.2 Francis Abiola Irele, "Introduction," pp. ix-xxi, IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart: Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Francis Abiola Irele. New York: Norton, 2008.

6.3 Achebe in His Own Words ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/achebewords.htm

For Your Reference: TBA

Unit 7. Post-Colonial Film & Literature:
Afrique: Je Te Plumerai & Nervous Conditions
(Winter 2010 Course Plan: Weeks #6 - #7)

UNIT 7 REQUIRED READINGS: (See related Graded Assignment: SEMINAR #6)

7.1 Afrique, je te plumerai Film Guide & Resources ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Afrique.htm

7.2 African Timelines Part V: Post-Independence Africa ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/timelines/htimeline5.htm

7.3 Tsitsi Dangarembga & Nervous Conditions Reading Guide ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/dangarembga.htm

7.4 Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions - Epigraph (p. vii) & Chs. 1 - 10, pp. 1- 204 (i.e. Read all!) REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. 4th ed. (with foreward by K. Anthony Appiah). New York: Seal Press, 2004.

7.5 Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Forward," pp. iii-vii, IN REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. 4th ed. (with foreward by K. Anthony Appiah). New York: Seal Press, 2004.

For Your Reference:
--Oumou Sangaré (b. 1968, Mali - female griotte, Wassoulou musical style, Fulani culture) ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Sangare.htm

Unit 8. Post-Apartheid South Africa
(Winter 2010 Course Plan: Weeks #7 - 9)
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UNIT 8 REQUIRED READINGS: (See related Graded Assignment: SEMINAR #7)

8.1 J. M. Coetzee: Biography ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/coetzee.htm

8.2 Disgrace (1999) Reading Guide ONLINE:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/Disgrace.htm

8.3 J. M. Coetzee, Disgrace - Chs. 1 - 24, pp. 1- 220 (i.e. Read all!) REQUIRED COURSE TEXTBOOK: Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. Penguin Essential Editions: Reissue ed. New York: Penguin, 2005.

8.4 District 9 Film Resources - Required & Recommended Readings:
http://web.cocc.edu/cagatucci/classes/hum211/CoursePack/District9.htm

For Your Reference:

District 9. [New Zealand, 2009] Dir. Neill Blomkamp [b. 1979, Johannesburg, South Africa]. Wr. Neill Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell. Prod. Peter Jackson and others. Perf. Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and others. Sony Pictures-Screen Gems, 2009. Film. Tristar. 2009. DVD.
MPAA Rating/Advisory: R for bloody violence & pervasive language
Languages: In English, Nyanja, Afrikaans, & some other indigenous African languages
Filming locations: Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa
Run-time: 112 min.

--See also IMDB: Internet Movie Database: "District 9 (2009)"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1136608/

[Background on South Africa under Apartheid] In-Class Viewing: Cry Freedom (1987, UK-Zimbabwe-Kenya; dir. Richard Attenborough; in English, with some dialogue/songs in other South African languages; total Run-Time: 159 min. RATED: PG).

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