Courses

A course dealing with the basic origin and orientation of the study of the African American experience. It is concerned with the relationships between African American Studies, Africana Studies, and other related fields of study. Its focus is a multi-dimensional and interdisciplinary perspective and approach to the African American experience.

Black women’s history from the precolonial era to the present; emphasis on the cultural, political, legal, economic, sexual, social, and religious factors that shaped their experiences across the African Diaspora and the world.

Black women’s history from the precolonial era to the present; emphasis on the cultural, political, legal, economic, sexual, social, and religious factors that shaped their experiences across the African Diaspora and the world.

Black women’s history from the precolonial era to the present; emphasis on the cultural, political, legal, economic, sexual, social, and religious factors that shaped their experiences across the African Diaspora and the world.

Students examine the problems, potentials, and upheavals of Modern Africa. conflicts, apartheid, the emergence of African nationalism, the end of white stability in contemporary Africa.

Students examine the history of Africa between 16,000 BC and 1800 AD. Topics evolutions in agriculture and technology; trade and commerce; the Indian Ocean institutions.

Part of a semester abroad course in South Africa. Management of wildlife and natural resources within the ecological, political, social, historical, and economic context of South Africa.

This course explores the development of African diaspora archaeology in the North American context. Students will learn how material-based perspectives of history offer unique insights on the experiences of marginalized communities. The principal focus will be on the southern United States and will include additional perspectives from the American West, the Caribbean, and South America.

Examination of African influence throughout the Americas (e.g., Candomblé in Brazil, Vodou in the Caribbean, African-American religions in North America), focusing on the interplay between religion, culture and politics. Humanities

This course explores the art forms informed by the history, people, and culture of the African Diaspora, with a heavy emphasis on dance in the body. The process by which dance is examined includes influences of music, literature, visual art, and theater with context rooted in traditions, rituals, spiritual systems, and social economics.