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A detailed study of a selected African country paying attention to issues such as history, political organization, literature, art, social systems, religion, position of women, economic development and agriculture, education, health, and the environment. This will be a research course done by independent study, with the coordinator of African Studies serving as supervisor, though another faculty member with expertise in the field may be appointed. In consultation with the coordinator the student may decide to focus research on a major issue or a few major issues. A student can also fulfill the requirements of the African Country Project by preparing for and attending one South Eastern Model of the African Union.

Prerequisite: PHIL 2010 or permission of instructor. The goal of this course is to facilitate discussions that will help students be able to better articulate a response to current concerns about race and racism. In order to establish both a framework and a purpose for class discussions, content will alternate between theories from the history of race and racism of philosophers such as Immanuel Kant with current theories and events that influence thoughts about race.

Prerequisite: PHIL 2010 or permission of the instructor. This course will survey the writings of African American thinkers in such areas as African American Feminism and Womanism, Black Theology, Pan-Africanism, and Race philosophies, among others. This course will introduce students to the voices of African Americans in the discipline in philosophy, which, in turn, will help them understand how necessary it is to include diverse perspectives in the discipline.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2110 or IDST 2305. A comparative study of texts from different backgrounds and cultures. (Cross-listed as ENGL 4447.)

Prerequisite: ENGL 2110 or IDST 2305. In-depth study of African literature, with attention to its social, political, historical, and economic backgrounds. Attention to the historical development of African literature and aesthetics, and the differences and continuities between Anglophone and Francophone writers. Course is also offered as ENGL 4451. Credit may only be earned once.

The course deals with the African woman writer's preoccupation with the condition of African womanhood. (Cross-listed as ENGL 4452.)

A survey of slavery in the United States from its origins until its demise with a particular emphasis on slave culture and the slave community.

An overview of the experience of African-Americans during the era of de jure segregation in the United States South. The course will also broach the topic of segregation in the north and continued patterns of de facto segregation in the post-civil rights era. This courseis non-repeatable.

An examination of the major figures, organizations, campaigns, and ideological debates associated with the Civil Rights and Black Power era of the 1950’s-1970’s. This course is non-repeatable.

A comparative study of the thought and work of major African-American writers, intellectuals, artists, and musicians with a particular emphasis on the protest tradition apparent in black intellectual and cultural life. This course is non-repeatable.

Prerequisite: ENGL 2110 or IDST 2305. A study of selected works of African American literature. (Cross-listed as ENGL 4667.)

Prerequisite: ENGL 2110 or IDST 2305. A study of ethnically diverse American literature. (Cross-listed as ENGL 4669.)

An overview of general information on African-American visual arts and material culture in the United States. (Cross-listed as ARTS 4840.)

An introduction to the arts and material culture of sub-Saharan Africa from ancient times to the present. Emphasis on relationship of art forms to social and cultural contexts.

Examines the dominant perceptions of Africa as the backward, "dark" continent that easily succumbed to the advanced technology exhibited by Europeans to bring "the light of civilization," and addresses the development of technology in Africa throughout history.