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Undergraduate Seminar (398-0-81)

Topic

African Youth Media

Instructors

Clovis Bergere

Meeting Info

Northwestern Qatar Room 1-245: Mon, Wed 4:00PM - 5:15PM (AST)

Overview of class

This course examines African media through the lens of youth. We interrogate how African youths consume, create, and circulate media, as well as how African media constructs youth as historically changing and contested social category. We read closely and critically popular media covering the late colonial period to the present.

Registration Requirements


  • Prerequisites: None

  • Open to sophomores and above, MIT majors only

  • Open for Cross Registration

  • Satisfies Africana Studies Minor and Media and Politics Minor

Enrollment Requirements

Enrollment Requirements: Registration is reserved for COMM Majors who are Sophomores and above.