African Studies and the Undergraduate Curriculum

Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction: African Studies Within U.S. Liberal Arts Education\nPART ONE INTERCULTURALISM AND AFRICAN STUDIES\n1 Between Cultures: Toward a Redefinition of Liberal Education\n2 Triumphalism, Tarzan, and Other Influences: Teaching About Africa in the 1990s\n3 Deposing Tarzan, or Teaching About Africa in the Post-Cold War Era: A Commentary on Joel Samoff\nPART TWO REASSESSMENTS AND NEW DIRECTIONS\n4 Transnational Cultural Studies and the U.S. University\n5 I Think You Should Hear Voices When You Look at African Art\n6 Beyond Boundaries in the Humanities: A Response to Neil Lazarus\n7 New Directions: Teaching Economics to Undergraduates in African Studies\n8 Learning by Disagreeing: Comments on Ann Seidman\n9 From Periphery to Center: African History in the Undergraduate Curriculum\n10 Teaching African History in U.S. Colleges: A Discussion of Thomas Spear\n11 Teaching African Science: Notes on \"Common Sense,\" \"Tribal War/\' and the \"End of History\"\n12 Science from Africa and Science About Africa: Comments on Ben Wisner\n13 Information Dynamics for African Studies: Resources in Libraries and Beyond\nPART THREE PROGRAMS ABROAD\n14 Developing an Approach to Integrated Study in a Non-Western Context: The St. Lawrence University Kenya Semester Program\n15 Nowhere to Hide: Perspectives on an African Foreign-Study Program\n16 \"The Walk Liberating\": Africa Abroad as an Undergraduate Experience\n17 Inside or Outside the University? The Conundrum of U.S. Undergraduates in Africa\nPART FOUR THE EVOLUTION OF UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAMS IN AFRICAN STUDIES\n18 Africa, Undergraduate Teaching, and Title VI African Studies Centers\n19 Accidents in African Studies: Africa in the Curriculum at the University of Richmond\n20 Underdevelopment and Self-Reliance in Building African Studies: Some Pedagogical, Policy, and Practical Political Issues at the College of Charleston\n21 Program Building: Some Principles and Lessons\n22 Tufanye Kazi Pamoja: The Association of African Studies Programs\nPART FIVE CONCLUSION\n23 Concluding Remarks\nThe Contributors\nAbout the Book