Cultures of the Horn of Africa 3600-7-AF1-KRA

Knowledge:
• has basic knowledge of the place and importance of African studies in the humanities and their specificity in relation to the subject and methodology (AF_W01)
• has organized general knowledge (including terminology, theory and methodology) in the scope of cultural studies (AF_W02)
• has detailed and organized knowledge of socio-cultural issues in chosen regions in Africa within the scope of natural environment and ethnic, demographic and political situation (AF_W09)
• can name and characterize basic cultural phenomena of a chosen region in Africa (AF_W10)
• demonstrates basic grasp of contemporary cultural life of a chosen region in Africa (AF_W16)
Skills:
• can indicate sources of cultural differences between the countries of Africa (AF_U02)
• can use the knowledge of history of chosen regions in Africa to analyze and interpret events taking place in the modern world (AF_U04)
• can appropriately place a chosen region in Africa in the context of circumstances pertinent to natural, geopolitical and economic environment (AF_U05)
• can use the knowledge of socio-cultural issues of a chosen region in Africa in typical professional situations (AF_U09)
• knows the state of research in chosen aspects pertaining to a chosen region in Africa (AF_U17)
Social competences:
• can establish relations and cooperate with representatives of other cultures (AF_K03)
• has awareness of the cultural distinctness and its religious, philosophical, traditional and historical roots and its significance for understanding modern world (AF_K05)
• sees the need of dialogue between cultures (AF_K06)
• perceives the positive socio-cultural values of a chosen region in the Orient or Africa and possibility to use them in own personal development and effective intercultural communication (AF_K09)

continuous assessment
final written assessment
attendance control

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1.Joanna Mantel-Niećko, Maciej Ząbek, Róg Afryki: historia i współczesność, Warszawa: Wydaw. Trio 1999;
2.Haggai Erlich , Islam and Christianity in the Horn of Africa : Somalia, Ethiopia, Sudan, London: Lynne Rienner Publishers 2010.
3.Hans Wilhelm Lockot (ed.), Bibliographia Aethiopica. 2, The Horn of Africa in English literature , Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag 1998.
4.I. M. Lewis, Peoples of the Horn of Africa: Somali, Afar and Saho , London: International African Institute 1969.
5.David W. Phillipson, Foundations of an African civilization: Aksum and the northern Horn, 1000 BC -AD 1300 , Woodbridge, Suffolk: James Currey 2012.
6.Gebru Tareke, The Ethiopian revolution: war in the Horn of Africa, Addis Ababa: Eclipse Printing Press Edition 2016.

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