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CURRENT MAJOR COURSE:
The MODEL AFRICAN UNION
PAS-37020
Spring 2013
Kent State University
9:15-10:3; Tuesday & Thursday

This interdisciplinary undergraduate course allows students to do three things: Learn about Africa’s major challenges in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries; study African politics “in practice” and the achievements and obstacles of the African Union (AU) by meeting with African diplomats and scholars in Washington D.C.; and learn African history by preparing for, attending, and writing about a simulated summit of the African Union in Washington D.C. from February 21 through 24, 2013.

Students will study past a