Africa: The Vibrant Continent
This unique summer offering combines our popular “What Teachers Need to Know: Africa” podcast series with the flexibility of an online course. Complete the four-part series at your own-pace during the month of July.
Self-Guided Online Course
Date
Wednesday July 5 – Tuesday August 1, 2023
Location
Self-paced asynchronous; approximately 3 hours per session
PDPs/Credits
10 PDPs
Fee
Partnership educators: no cost
Non-partnership educators:
Especially for grades 6 through 12
The African continent is home to a multitude of diverse and vibrant histories, cultures, and political landscapes. In this independent and self-paced online course we will examine these rich African worlds thematically, exploring resistance and resilience, innovation and identity, historical memory and representation, and hope and healing.
This self-paced multimedia experience is anchored by Primary Source’s What Teachers Need to Know: Africa Edition podcast series, produced in collaboration with Boston University’s African Studies Center. Each session will explore these themes through podcast episodes, online media, and scholarship, introducing a wealth of teaching resources that challenge us to expand the way Africa exists in classrooms today.
Standards: [6.T3] The Middle East and North Africa, [6.T4] Sub-Saharan Africa, [WHI.T1] Dynamic interactions among regions of the world, [WHII.T3] The global effects of 19th century imperialism