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West Africa and Brazil

The course discusses relations between West Africa and Brazil through the centuries since the 16th century. It highlights trade, human, diplomatic, and cultural exchanges that occurred over the five centuries between the two sides. Through lecture and students own research, and seminar presentations, a deeper understanding of the ties that came to exist between West Africa and Brazil through the slave and other types trade and exchanges is expected from this course.

Course Code: 
HIS 803
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 800
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Historiography of Africa

The course examines the nature of the writing of African history over the years, the persons who have written, the readership for which they wrote, the sources and methodology used and the assumptions and presumptions of the different types of historical writing on Africa. It alerts students to the need to distinguish between fact and fantasy or prejudice.

Course Code: 
HIS 802
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 800
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Economic and Social History of Ghana

The course examines the important economic and social development that occurred in Ghana after the abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and its replacement by legitimate trade, the expansion of British economic activity, European missionary activity, imposition of British rule and the social and economic consequences of these developments for the people of Ghana.

Course Code: 
HIS 801
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 800
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History
Degree Type: 
Master of ArtsDepartment of History
Programme Duration: 
1 year (Standard Entry)
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Entry Requirements: 
  1. Have a first degree with at least, Second Class Lower Division in History, African Studies, Political Science/Studies, B.Ed. Arts with History Major and other related humanities.
  2. Submit an official transcript of academic record.
  3. Submit at least, two referees’ report, one of which must be from a former lecturer.
  4. Satisfy any additional requirements prescribed by the University of Cape Coast, College of Humanities and Legal Studies, Department of History.

Project Work / Long Essay

This course gives students the opportunity of researching into a topic of their choice and writing long essays on the topic.

Course Code: 
HIS 499
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Post Independence Africa

The course examines the problems that African states faced on attaining independence and the various ways in which the leaders addressed the problems of creating nation states, stable political systems and achieving social and economic development. The course also interrogates foreign interventions in African domestic affairs and how these affected the economic, political and cultural trajectories of African states in the post-colonial era. The course further explores the lessons from the successes and failures of the post-colonial Africa project.

Course Code: 
HIS 424
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Europe in the Inter-War Years

This course examines the factors in the major events that brought irreversible political, social, economic and cultural changes not only to Europe, but also to all other continents. It explores the pervasive consequences of the First War and the ways in which the chain of events triggered by this war contributed to the outbreak of the Second World War. The course provides students with an understanding of the major European states and how these dovetailed into continental diplomacy. It provides the broader context within which some celebrated totalitarian regimes and their key personalities burst onto the European political landscape and the impact of these on European and world politics. The course enables students to draw parallels between totalitarianism in Europe and early independent Africa.

Course Code: 
HIS 415
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Modern Latin America, 1825 – 1970

The course expands the story of Latin America from the time of their independence at the beginning of the nineteenth century. It surveys the challenges Latin Americans faced at independence and how they tried to meet these up to 1970. The course studies the histories of specific countries at various periods of the post-colonial period as illustrations of the generalizations that are made about the twenty countries. It provides students with the opportunity to compare the post-colonial experiences of a region outside Africa which fell under European colonial rule with those of independent Africa.

Course Code: 
HIS 413
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Colonial Latin America

This course deals with the history of the society and government institutions that Spain and Portugal began to build from the time they arrived in the New World i.e. from 1492. The confrontation between the Old-World people and the indigenous population of the Americas as well as the results of that confrontation in the political, social, economic and religious spheres will be the subject of discussion. It is expected that at the end of the course, students will be able to explain how Latin American society was built as well as peculiar institutions and challenges they have faced. This should provide a basis of comparison with what has happened and is going on in our part of the world.

Course Code: 
HIS 410
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
Second Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

Eastern, Central and Southern Africa, 1800 – 1960

The course examines the ways in which new political systems emerged in the Bantu areas of East, Central and Southern Africa engaged with the outside world. It discusses the creation of the Omani economic empire along the coast of East Africa, the creation of new political systems in the Great Lakes region. The course analyses the nature of European activities and African responses to them in East, Central and Southern Africa.

Course Code: 
HIS 409
No. of Credits: 
3
Level: 
Level 400
Course Semester: 
First Semester
Select Programme(s): 
History

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