Course syllabus

Welcome to Religion and Politics in Africa AS3023/AS2006!

Welcome to African Studies with classes both on the graduate- (AS3000) and the undergraduate- (AS2000) levels and both on campus (in English) 

The autumn semester courses are:

• Dynamics of African Societies (12 credits, AS3022 and AS2005, runs 1 September to mid-January) with teaching in English on Campus in Falun.
• Religion and Politics (9 credits, AS3023 and AS2006, 1 September to mid-October) with teaching in English on Campus in Falun.
• Education and Change (8 credits, AS3021 and AS2004, mid-October to mid-January)  with teaching in English on Campus in Falun.

• Graduate students also take the Developing the Research Proposal-course (1 credit, AS3024, part of Dynamics, all autumn semester).

General introduction to all autumn semester courses, distribution of schedules, course handbooks, etc.: Monday, August 31, on campus in Falun at 10.15-12 in Room A130. 

• Course supervisor for Dynamics-, Religion and Politics- and Developing the research proposal-courses is Lars Berge (labe@du.se), on campus in Falun and online/mail from mid-August.
• Course supervisor for Education and Change courses is Nadezda Lebedeva (nle@du.se). The E&C-courses don’t start until mid-October but she will be on campus from late August and onwards.

After registration you will by mid- to late August have full access to schedules, reading lists, course handbooks, articles to read for seminars and methodology workshops, etc.

All course information on Dynamics and Religion and Politics courses will be uploaded on the Canvas beginning with mid-August.

For students who already now wish to begin reading books of the R&P courses to be discussed early in the semester, the following can be mentioned:  

• Grillo, L. S., Ndzovu, H. J. & Klinken, A. V. (2019). Religions in contemporary Africa : an introduction. 1st ed. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780815365792.

• Robinson, David (2004) Muslim Societies in African History, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (Available in electronic form) (200 s/p).

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