Study Abroad in the Global South: South Africa ‘07
Sponsored by PLNU’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation
Week 1 – Course Outline; – Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
Race: The Power of an Illusion (Documentary)
Week 2 – Introduction to South Africa
Worden, Chs. 1-2: Intro and Conquest of the Land
Week 3 - Race and Ethnicity as Historically Conditioned Socio-political Constructs
Worden, Ch. 3: Changes in Town and Countryside
Week 4 – Institutionalization of Racism
Worden, Ch. 4: White Supremacy, Segregation and Apartheid
Week 5 – De Facto and De Jure Discrimination
Dry White Season (Movie)
Worden, Ch. 5: The Heyday of Apartheid
Week 6 – South Africa Transitions Beyond Apartheid
South African Constitution (http://www.polity.org.za/html/govdocs/constitution/saconst.html?rebookmark=1)
Wordon, Ch. 6: The Decline and Fall of Apartheid
Week 7 – U.S. Pop-culture and its influence on South Africa
AMANDLA!: A Revolution in Four Part Harmony (Documentary)
Youth, Popular Culture, and Identity: American Influences on South Africa and Lesotho
by Scott Rosenberg, Wittenberg University (SAFUNDI)
"South African Christian Music: A) Christian Music in the Western Tradition," by Barry Smith (Christianity in South Africa, Ch. 20)
"South African Christian Music: B) Christian Music Among Africans," by David Dargie (Christianity in South Africa, Ch. 20)
Week 8 – Race, Ethnicity and Education
From Exclusion to Inclusion: A Historical Comparison of the Educational Experiences of Black South Africans and African Americans
by Kimberly Lenease King, Auburn University (SAFUNDI)
Week 9 – Race, Ethnicity and Residential Segregation
Residential Segregation in South Africa and the United States: Evaluating the Sustainability of Comparative Research
by Grant Saff, Hofstra University (SAFUNDI)
Week 10 – Transplanting of Christianity
"Settlement, Conquest and Theological Controversy: The Churches of Nineteenth-century European Immigrants," by Rodney Davenport
"A Battle for Sacred Power: Christian Beginnings Among the Xhosa," by Janet Hodgson
"Kingdoms of This World and the Next: Christian Beginnings among Zulu and Swazi," by Norman Etherington
Week 11 – Churches of Modern South Africa
"Modernization and Apartheid: The Afrikaner Churches," by Johann Kinghorn
"Grappling with a Colonial Heritage: The English-speaking Churches under Imperialism and Apartheid," by John W. De Gruchy
"A Branch Springs Out: African Initiated Churches," by Hennie Pretorius and Lizo Jafta
Week 12 – Race, Ethnicity, Christianity and Gender
"The Struggle for Sunday: All-male Christianity in the Gold Mine Compounds," by Tshidiso Maloka
"Power in Prayer and Service: Women's Christian Organizations," by Deborah Gaitskell
Week 13 – Christianity, Power and Race
"Millennial Christianity, British Imperialism, and African Nationalism," by Wallace G. Mills
"The Benevolent Empire and the Social Gospel: Missionaries and South African Christians in the Age of Segregation," by Richard Elphick
"Creation and Apartheid: South African Theology since 1948," by Eugene M. Klaaren
"Christianity and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle: the Prophetic Voice within
Divided Churches," by Peter Walshe
Week 14 – South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Long Night’s Journey into Day (Documentary)
Reacting to Amy Biehl: Perspectives from South Africa and the United States
by Steven Gish, Auburn University Montgomery (SAFUNDI)
Week 15 – Semester Wrap-up; Final preparations for trip to South Africa
Take Home Mid-Term Due
May 14-June 12 in South Africa
Leave San Diego May 14
Cape Town: May 15–May 28
Shosholoza Meyl cross country train ride: May 28-29
Kruger National Park: May 29 – May 31
Loskop Dam Valley farmers/Ndlovu Medical Centre: May 31-June 4
Johannesburg/Soweto: June 4-12
Return to San Diego: June 12
Travel Journal to be handed in on our last day in South Africa.
Take Home Final and the reviews of Long Walk to Freedom, Songs of Zion and No Future Without Forgiveness are due July 31 (more than a month after we return).