New Courses
Winter 2009 - NELC 380: Everyday Life in South Asia - Call# 21857-3
Introduction to the cultural diversity of South Asia through the study of everyday life and media representations.
Instructor: Professor Margaret Mills - Class Schedule: TR 1:30-3:18PM - Credit: U 5
The cultural weatkth and diversity of South Asia (India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka) mainly comes to the attention of the American public in the form of brief news reports on sectarian and other violence or concerning interruptions of national and international political processes. This course is designed for those who want to know more about how members of the culturally, religiously, and professionally diverse population of this important region experience, manage, and find meaning in their everyday lives. Anthropologists, historians, folklorists, and scholars of religion, media and cultural studies all contribute different insights on this subject. The broad-ranging essay collection of Mines and Lamb, (eds.), Everyday Life in South Asia, will ground the course, balanced with readings on contemporary folklore in everyday use and several documentary and feature films.
Somali Language Courses Now Offered in African American and African Studies (AAAS)Somali language instruction is now offered at Ohio State in the African American and African Studies Department. With funding from the Department of Education’s Undergraduate International Studies and Foreign Language grant, the Center for African Studies has supported the start up of Somali language courses. Four of these courses are now offered by the Department of African American and African Studies (AAAS). Instruction began in W07 with a part-time lecturer. In Su07, College of Humanities approved a unique prefix for these courses (Somali 101, 102, 103, and 104) and Somali was approved to fulfill A&S foreign language requirement. In Spr08, enrollment was 33 in Somali 103 and 32 in Somali 104. Students who are heritage speakers from Columbus’s Somali community, who wish to improve their literacy and speaking skills, make up a growing number of the upper level courses.
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