Wikipedia:WikiAfrica/Stubs/UCT African Studies Unit

UCT African Studies Unit - is one part of an interdisciplinary teaching and research cluster that makes up African Studies at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in South Africa. The African Studies Unit and its affiliated partner, the Centre for African Studies, sits within the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics. The African Studies Unit offers a full academic programme that concentrates on the graduate level, but is also involved in some undergraduate courses. Students in the African Studies Unit are interested in critical, interdisciplinary, Africa-focused scholarship that thinks outside of the framework of an inherited set of knowledge projects, and are interested in the critical and intellectual traditions of the global south.

Courses

 * Critical Issues in Heritage Studies http://www.africanstudies.uct.ac.za/courses/critical-issues-in-heritage-studies/This course looks at heritage policy, theory and practice within the broader context of culture, identity and history. Students work in small groups and are expected to contribute to discussions and formulate their own positions. They will be assisted with shaping of research projects.

Projects
The Trilateral Reconnections Project facilitates student and faculty exchanges and joint research projects between the University of the West Indies, Brown University and the University of Cape Town. The Coca Cola Foundation is sponsoring a program for Masters and PhD candidates from the University of Cape Town and the University of the West Indies to travel to one of the three universities to conduct research for their thesis or dissertation.

Curate AfricaCurate Africa is a project which sets out to curate images of Africa across several themes to challenge the histories of representation concerned with African people and places.

