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Students will examine how culture has influenced their health, worldviews and
realities and how this influences their understanding of and interactions with
health, sickness and healing.
Students will be able to describe the various cultural and spiritual realities of
health, according to Africans on the Continent and in the USA.
Students will be challenged to consider the alternative perspectives of health
and healing the ancestors, as well as the unborn.
Students will engage in respectful and intellectual discussions with their peers
on various topics of health, healing, sickness and death.
Students will explore their affective reactions to the topical information
presented during the semester.
Students will develop a familiarity with possible health concerns and healing
issues of African Americans.
Students will begin to develop a set of appropriate skills to help them
competently understand health within various African cultural groups in the USA.
REQUIRED TEXTS/READINGS:
Ademuleya, Babasehinde, A. The Concept of Ori in the Traditional Yoruba Visual
Representation of Human Figures. Nordic Journal of African Studies 16 (2): 212-220
(2007)
Ogundele, Samuel Oluwole. Aspects of Indigenous Medicine in South Western Nigeria.
Ethno-Med., 1 (2): 127-133 (2007)
Awojoodu, O. and Baran, D. Traditional Yoruba Medicine in Nigeria: A Comparative
Approach. Bulletin of Transilvania University of Brasov V 6 (51) 2009
Morakinyo, Aina. Culture-Bound Syndromes and the Neglect of Cultural Factors in
Psychopathologies Among Africans. African Journal of Psychiatry. September 2011
US Department of Health and Human Services. Culture Counts: The Influence of Culture
and Society on Mental Health, Mental Illness
US Department of Health and Human Services. Mental Health for African Americans
US Department of Health and Human Services. A Vision for the Future
AYODELE SAMUEL JEGEDE. (2002) THE YORUBA CULTURAL CONSTRUCTION OF
HEALTH AND ILLNESS. Nordic Journal of African Studies 11(3): 322-335 (2002)
Aina, O Morakinyo. (2011) Culturebound syndromes and the neglect of cultural factors
in psychopathologies among Africans. Afr J Psychiatry 2011;14:278-285.
OLADELE ABIODUN BALOGUN. (2007) The Concepts of Ori and Human Destiny in
Traditional Yoruba Thought: A Soft Deterministic Interpretation. Nordic Journal of African
Studies 16(1): 116130 (2007)
Akomolafe, Adebayo Clement. (2009) Decolonizing the notion of mental illness and
healing in Nigeria, West Africa
Course Evaluation
Response Papers (in class) ...................
25%
15%
10%
Class Presentation
25%
...
25%
Grading Scale
100-95 = A
94-90 = A89-87 = B+
86-84 = B
83-80 = B79-77 = C+
76-74 = C
73-70 = C69-67 = D+
66-64 = D
63-60 = D-