HIST385

(Study Abroad course) This course will take a particularly unique perspective. The history of a people is more than the description of their condition over a period of time. It is also the understanding of that history's "turning points": the periods, people, philosophies, and events around which the direction of a people is changed or cemented. The material presented in this course will be selected and organized to illuminate these "turning points" in South African history; i.e., The Coming of the Dutch, Early South African Resistance, Formation of the ANC, The Sharpeville Massacre, The Soweto Riots, World Sanctions, Ending Apartheid, Democracy and The Transition.