Hum 211 Index Page

HUM 211:
Culture & Literature of Africa
( including African Orature & Film )
was last offered in Fall 2004 & will be offered again in Fall 2007.
Instructor: Cora Agatucci
Introductory study of representative oral arts, literature, film & related creative arts,
in English or in translation, of sub-Saharan African peoples,
examined in context of their histories and cultural traditions.
Taught with a MIC and WIC designation. Recommended preparation:
College Entry-Level Skills in reading & writing

HUM 211 (MIC-WIC) - FALL 2007
CRN # 40813 - 4 Credits
Mon & Wed 12:45 - 2:25 p.m., Deschutes 1
Instructor: Cora Agatucci - Contact Cora
See also Fall 2007 Humanities/Film offerings:
https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2008/200740/HUM.htm
& full Fall 2007 COCC Credit Class Schedule:
https://oraweb.cocc.edu/2008/200740/fullschedule.htm
Academic Calendar & Final Exam Schedule (as of 6 May 2007, not yet showing Fall 2007):
http://current.cocc.edu/Degrees_Classes/calendar/default.aspx

Fall 2007 HUM 211 Syllabus | Course Plan |
Online Course Pack Index

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FALL 2007 Required Textbooks

Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart. [First published 1958.] Expanded edition with Notes. Classics in Context (African Writers) series. London & New York: Heinemann, 2000, 1996.
ISBN-10: 0-435-905-252 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0435905255 (paperback)

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. Nervous Conditions. [First published 1988.] 4th ed. (with foreward by K. Anthony Appiah). New York: Seal Press, 2004.
ISBN-10: 1-58005-134-0 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1580051347 (paperback)

Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace. [First published 1999.] Penguin Essential Editions: Reissue ed. New York: Penguin, 2005.
ISBN-10: 0-14-303637-8 (paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-0143036371 (paperback)

Additional Fall 2007 HUM 211 Required Readings will include Handouts (distributed in class) and Online Course Pack materials (freely available on the World Wide Web).

FALL 2007 planned In-Class Film Viewings:

Keita: Heritage of the Griot [French: Keita! L'héritage du griot]. Dir. Dani Kouyaté. Perf. Seydou Boro, Hamed Dicko, Abdoulaye Komboudri, and Sotigui Kouyaté. [Videotape.] Afix Productions-California Newsreel, 1995.

I Is a Long Memoried Woman. Dir. Frances-Anne Solomon. Prod. Ingrid Lewis. Perf. Adjoa Andoh and Leonie Forbes. LedaSerene/Women Make Movies, 1990. [Videotape.] LedaSerene/Yod Video, 1991.

Chinua Achebe: A World of Ideas, with Bill Moyers. 1989, 1994. PBS Video, Public Affairs Television, WNET/New York and WWTTW/Chicago, Alexandria, VA; 1989. Films for the Humanities, 1994.

Afrique: je te plumerai [English: "Africa: I Will Fleece You"]. Dir., Prod., & Narr.: Jean-Marie Téno. [Videotape.] California Newsreel, 1992.

Chocolat. Dir. Claire Denis. Perf. Guilia Boschi, Isaach de Bankole, Francois Cluzet. France-West Germany-Cameroon, 1988. [DVD.] Orion Classics/MGM Home Entertainment, 2001.

"The world is big. Some people are unable to comprehend that simple fact.
They want the world on their own terms,
its peoples just like them and their friends,
its places like the manicured little patch on which they live.
But this is a foolish and blind wish.
Diversity is not an abnormality but the very reality of our planet.
The human world manifests the same reality and will not seek our permission
to celebrate itself in the magnificence of its endless varieties.
Civility is a sensible attribute in this kind of world we have;
narrowness of heart and mind is not."
--Chinua Achebe, Bates College Commencement Address, 27 May 1996
URL: http://abacus.bates.edu/now/Comm96/address.html [Sorry - Link broken as of 1 Jan. 2003 ~ C. Agatucci]