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This course emerges at the intersection of the community education and community health initiatives that students are working on in Livingstone, Zambia and scholarly, nonfiction writing, and memoirs about similar kinds of development work. While collaborating with and assisting Zambians in educational settings (schools, after school programs, adult literacy programs) or in community health arenas (clinics, home-based care, health education programs), students will critically explore how development work is conceptually framed and represented in nonfiction, fiction, and/or memoirs.
Completion of AUCC Category 2.
The reading list for the course will be drawn from the following titles:
Wainaina, Binyavanga, "How to Write About Africa" (instructor will provide a copy)
Keim, Curtis "Mistaking Afrida" (student will purchase)
Ruxin, Josh "A Thousand Hills to Heaven" (student will purchase)
Tidwell, Mike "The Ponds of Kalambayi (student will purchase)
Supplemental texts TBD (instructor will provide student with copies of these):
"Crimes against the Future: Zambian Teachers" Alternative Income Generation and the Undermining of Education"
"Dissecting the Teacher Monolith: Experiences of Beginning Basic School Teachers in Zambia"
Selected Readings from "A Life Inspired: Tales of Peace Corps Service"
Others TBD