Courses

This section lists the courses for the Interdisciplinary PhD in Social Studies at MISR

Year One: Semester I

Core Courses

  • SSR7104: Major Debates in the Study of Africa
  • SSR7105: Pre-modern and modern Political Thought
  • SSR7106: The History of Economic Theory

Year One: Semester II

Core Courses

  • SSR7205: Africa Before Western Hegemony
  • SSR7206: Theories of Culture and Society
  • SSR7207: Feminist Political Economy
  • Electives (None)

Year Two: Semester I

Core Course

  • SSR8102: Colonialism, Post-Colonialism, and Decolonization

Electives (Choose at least two courses)

  • SSC8103: Thematic Seminar: Cultural Studies
  • SSE8104: Statistical Methods
  • SSE8103: International Political Economy
  • SSE8105: Late Industrialization
  • SSH8103: Gender in History
  • SSH8104: Slavery and Slave Trade
  • SSH8105: Thematic Seminar: Historical Studies
  • SSH8106: Historical Research and Sources in African History
  • SSP8104: Power, Society and Custom before and after Colonialism
  • SSP8102: Contemporary Western Social and Political Thought
  • SSP8103: Human Rights and Politics

Year Two: Semester II

Core Course

  • SSR8201: Research language (Any language e.g.Kiswahili, Luganda, Arabic, Geez, French, Luo etc.)

Electives Courses (Choose at least two course)

  • SSC8204: Studies in contemporary African Popular Arts and Cultures
  • SSC8205: Development, Culture and Social Change
  • SSC8206: Gender, Culture and Modernity
  • SSC8207: Ethnographic and interdisciplinary Methods in Social Studies
  • SSC8203: African Literature and the Critical traditions
  • SSE8203: Thematic Seminar: Political Economy
  • SSE8205: The Agrarian Question in Modern History
  • SSH8204: History and Historicism
  • SSP8204: The Modern State and Colonial Subject
  • SSP8205: Thematic Seminar: Political Studies

Year Three: Semester I

Core Courses

  • SSR8102: Research Colloquium
  • SSR8103: Comprehensive Examinations 1 (Thematic Bibliographies)
  • Electives (None)

Year Three: Semester II

Core Courses

  • SST8201: Taught Tutorial
  • SSR8203: Research Colloquium
  • SSR8204: Comprehensive Examinations 2 (Place specific)
  • Electives (None)

Year Four: Semester I

Core Course

  • SSR9101: Fieldwork Report
  • Electives (None)

Year Five: Semester I

Core Course

  • SSR9102: Research Colloquium
  • Electives (None)

Year Five: Semester II

Core Course

  • SSR9202: Research Colloquium
  • SSR 9203: Final Dissertation 
Course Descriptions
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