Sample Courses

Sample courses in the Africana Studies Program.

Africana Studies

  • Introduction to Africana Studies
  • Black Europe

Anthropology

  • Anthropology of Africa
  • Race, Racism and Anthropology
  • Genders & Sexualities
  • Seminar: African Informal Economies

Arabic

  • Elementary Arabic 1 & 2
  • Intermediate Arabic 1 & 2
  • Third Year Arabic
  • Introduction to Arabic Culture

Center for Interdisciplinary Studies

  • Intro to Global Health
  • HIV/AIDS in Global Perspective
  • Critical Issues/Global Health
  • Pop Culture, Race & Sexuality

Education

  • Understanding Urban Schools
  • Multicultural Education

English

  • African American Literature
  • Contemporary African American Literature and Culture
  • Toni Morrison
  • Black  Urban Experience
  • Abolition Rhetoric

French

  • Francophone Literature
  • Francophone Protest Poetics

History

  • American Slavery, American Freedom
  • African Colonial Lives
  • Afro-Latin America
  • Early Africa to 1800
  • Modern Africa since 1800
  • Radicalism in America
  • The Civil Rights Movement
  • South Africa and Apartheid
  • Colonial Latin America
  • Afro-Latin American Religions (Seminar)
  • Nationalism in Modern Africa
  • Black Biographies (Seminar)
  • Resistance & Revolution in Modern Africa

Music

  • Global Pop
  • World Music
  • African American Music: From Blues to Rap
  • Jazz Improvisation 1
  • Musical Cultures of Brazil

Philosophy

  • Intro to Africana Philosophy
  • Black Feminist Philosophy

Political Science

  • African Politics
  • Political Violence
  • Women, War and Violence

Religious Studies

  • African American Religions
  • Islam
  • Liberation Theology
  • Race & Religion
  • The Quran

Sociology

  • Race, Crime, and Justice
  • Race and Power
  • Environmental Racism
  • Education and Society

Studies in World Literature

  • Topics in African Cinema
  • African and Caribbean Poetry

Theatre

  • Jazz Dance 1-2
  • Jazz Dance 3-4
  • Afro-Haitian Dance
    Hip Hop/Breaking
  • Decolonizing Dance History

Visual Arts

  • Art of Africa & the Americas