JSIS201: The Making of the 21st Century
Winter 2015 5 Credits Final grade: 3.9 Comparative Religion and Honors |
The making of the 21st CenturyThis class has been among the most difficult courses for me at the University. I would not have taken the course if left to my own devices, but it is a required class for all International Studies majors (the umbrella under which Comparative Religion falls). The difficulty of the course stemmed from its political science/world economic focus which is far beyond anything I had studied during my time at the University.
I chose to enroll in the quiz section which was cross-listed with the honors department, affording me credit in the university departmental honors program. I am still waiting to see what this class will hold for me. The artifact I have uploaded is a paper concerning economic disparity in post-Apartheid South Africa along racial lines. It is a paper that was influenced by my study abroad in South Africa in the summer of 2013. It seeks to understand at least some of the reasons that an overwhelming number of Black South Africans find themselves in poverty despite the dissolution of economically oppressive Apartheid legislation. It focuses, in particular, on the effects of crime in perpetuating such economic inequality. |
Image: Banias. An ancient temple to the Greek G-d Pan in the Golan Heights of Israel.