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Class Detail:
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FA 2009
Classical Civilization
CLCIV
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First-year Seminar in Classical Civilization (Composition)
Section
001
Africa, Race and Ethnicity in Ancient Mediterranean
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Credits:
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4
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Requirements & Distribution:
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FYWR
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Other:
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FYSem, WorldLit
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Waitlist Capacity:
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10
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Advisory Prerequisites:
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Enrollment restricted to first-year students, including those with sophomore standing.
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Repeatability:
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May not be repeated for credit.
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Primary Instructor:
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Asso,Paolo
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(real time availability for all sections)
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In this course we suggest that the idea of Africa was fabricated in classical antiquity by non-African peoples. We shall study this idea of Africa as it relates to
questions of identity, race, and ethnicity, both ancient and present. Readings are selected from ancient and modern texts,
and include Herodotus, Aristotle, Tacitus, Appiah, Said, Isaac, and Obama.
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Course Syllabi
Syllabi are available to current LSA students. IMPORTANT: These syllabi are provided to give students a general idea about the courses, as offered by LSA departments and programs in prior academic terms. The syllabi do not necessarily reflect the assignments, sequence of course materials, and/or course expectations that the faculty and departments/programs have for these same courses in the current and/or future terms.
Search for Syllabus
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Textbooks/Other Materials (data maintained by department in Wolverine Access)
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ISBN: 039474067X
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Orientalism, Author: Edward W. Said., Publisher: Vintage Books 25. annive 1979
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 9780140440348
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The histories, Author: Herodotus., Publisher: Penguin Books 1981
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 9781844673285
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The other, Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski ; translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ; with an introduction by Neal Ascherson., Publisher: Verso 2008
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 1400078784
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Travels with Herodotus, Author: Ryszard Kapuscinski ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska., Publisher: Vintage Books 1st Vintag 2008
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 0192833006
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Agricola and Germany, Author: Tacitus ; translated with an introduction and notes by Anthony R. Birley., Publisher: Oxford University Press 1999
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 9780199206582
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Geopolitics : a very short introduction, Author: Klaus Dodds., Publisher: Oxford University Press 2007
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 9780192802484
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African history : a very short introduction, Author: John Parker, Richard Rathbone., Publisher: Oxford University Press 2007
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 0195068513
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In my father's house : Africa in the philosophy of culture, Author: Kwame Anthony Appiah, Publisher: Oxford Univ. Press 1992
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 081292343X
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Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance, Author: Barack Obama., Publisher: Times Books 1st ed. 1995
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 0192803468
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Egyptian myth : a very short introduction, Author: Geraldine Pinch., Publisher: Oxford University Press 2004
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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ISBN: 9780691116914
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The invention of racism in classical antiquity, Author: Isaac, Benjamin H., Publisher: Princeton University Press 2004
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Required
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Other Textbook Editions OK.
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