As a transfer student a lot of my schedule this school year was occupied with classes that I have to take to meet the faculty graduation requirements.  This was an unfortunate circumstance in the fact that I had to take first year chemistry and suffer (as I mentioned below) through intro to economics.  One great class that I had to take out of meeting my graduation requirements and out of personal interest was my Intro to African Studies 250 class.  It was a relatively new course that the students of UBC had to fight for, as originally there were not any African studies courses offered at UBC.  Our professor, Dr. Suzanne James, is actually a Canadian literature professor who spent quite a few years living and teaching in Tanzania.  Our class focused on African history through the readings of a short history book as well as historical fictions.  Discussion was encouraged and I felt as though I left the class with a greater understanding of what “Africa” means to the world and to  African’s themselves.