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Course Prerequisites:
ADW 111 and/or ADW 112
The program director may approve other courses upon request. Students requesting an exception for prerequisites must present a syllabus for the course they would like to substitute.
Required Texts
Brown, Jacqueline Nassy. Dropping Anchor, Setting Sail: Geographies of Race in Black Liverpool
(Selections)
Black, Stephanie. Life and Debt. A Tuff Gong Pictures Production, 2001 (film)
Emecheta, Buchi. In the Ditch or Kahinde
Equiano, Olaudah. The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings
Selvon, Sam. The Lonely Londoners
Wells, Ida B. Crusade for Justice (Selections)
Wright, Michelle, M., Becoming Black :Creating Identity in the African Diaspora. Durham and London: Duke UP, 2004 (Selections)
Recommended Texts
Gerzina, Gretchen Holbrook. Black London: Life Before Emancipation
Gomez, Michael A. Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005
Okpewho, Isidore, Carole Boyce Davies and Ali A. Mazrui, The African Diaspora: African Origins and New World Identities. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2001
Course (Catalogue) Description:
Short term study travel courses for the African Diaspora and the World make international experience available to a wider spectrum of students. At the same time, because of a required research component, these courses strengthen the core curriculum by requiring students to identify and build on academic goals that can be scaffolded throughout the four-year experience. Ultimately, given the unique position of the African Diaspora and the World course in the core curriculum, this short-term study abroad experience reinforces and enhances one of the signature experiences of Spelman College. Specific courses under this category carry both the number, ADW 222, and a letter, A,B, or C
Course Goals
Short term study abroad courses for the African Diaspora and the World move beyond the parameters of the first-year sequence, ADW 111-112, to examine issues of migration, displacement, community formation and identity in specific geographic sites. In making globalized connections between Europe, Africa and its diasporas, these courses offer new, informed and interdisciplinary perspectives on issues shaping the world today. With the opportunity to explore interests and fascinations through travel, these courses enable students to challenge preconceptions, to discover and discard values, and develop a greater sense of global citizenship.
