Arts, Sciences, and Engineering History
Course Section Listing Course Course Title Term Credits Status
COURSE_SECTION-3-151489 HIST 220-1 Art History and Ethnoarchaeology of West Africa Spring 2023 4.0 Open
Schedule:
Day Begin End Location Start Date End Date
TR 1230 1345 Lattimore Room 413 01/11/2023 05/06/2023
Enrollment: Enrolled     
10
Capacity     
20
Co-Located: AHST 232-1, ANTH 296-1, ATHS 212-1 (P), HIST 220-1
Instructors: William Gblerkpor
Description: This course explores how climate change is causing the loss and damage of cultural heritage sites across Africa. It examines the continent’s cultural landscape heritage and assesses threats and impacts of rising temperatures, wetter climates, rising sea levels, and human migration on the survival and futures of Africa’s past. Africa’s long history of humankind and the peoples encounters with other cultures of the world, have created and shaped a rich and diverse cultural heritage that needs safeguarding
Offered: Fall