Course Details
Country:
South Africa
Institution:
Stellenbosch University
Course Title:
Overview of SA history
Course Number:
Overview of SA history - 214
Course Description:
This course provides a general overview of South Africa’s past, opening with a focus on our ‘pre-history’: our hominid ancestors, the complex behaviors of early members of our own species, the San and Khoi people, and Mapungubwe. This is followed by a focus on our more modern history, beginning with the rise of European interest in what is today South Africa, beginning with the navigations around the Southernmost tip of Africa by Portuguese explorers such as Vasco da Gama and Bartholomew Diaz. This is followed by a look at your colonial past, including the Cape’s slave history, the expansion of the Cape Colony, how settlers came to move into the interior and found new Boer republics, and finally, how these disparate areas came to be united under one flag and government. While the expansion of European settlement, leading to the eventual creation of South Africa’s borders as we know them
Language:
English
Approved Equivalent:
HIST 387
Attachment Files:
Course outline.pdf
