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African Studies

Cross-Listed Courses

African American and African Diaspora Studies

  • A500 Introduction to African & African-American Diaspora (3 cr.)

Anthropology

  • B568 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (3 cr.)
  • B600 Seminar in Bioanthropology (3 cr.) [Africa-related topics]
  • C650 Ethnography and Social Theory [with Africa content]
  • E510 Problems in African Ethnography and Ethnology (3 cr.)
  • E523 Life Histories (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • E600 Seminar in Cultural and Social Anthropology [African topics] (3 cr.)
  • E617 African Women (3 cr.)
  • E620 Seminar in Cultural Ecology (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • E644 People and Protected Areas (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • E650 African Systems of Thought (1-3 cr.)
  • E660 Arts in Anthropology (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • E677 Performing Nationalism (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • E690 Development and Anthropology (3 cr.)
  • P600 Seminar in Prehistoric Archaeology (3 cr.)

Art History

  • A552 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa (3 cr.)
  • A555 Art/Craft/Tec in sub-Saharan Africa (3 cr.)
  • A556 Art of Central Africa (3 cr.)
  • A580 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan (3 cr.)
  • A650 Problems in African Art (3 cr.)

Comparative Literature

  • C537-8 The Twentieth Century I-II (4 cr.) [with Africa Content]
  • C572 Modern African Letters (4 cr.)
  • C603 Topics in Comparative Literature (4 cr.) [African topics]
  • C611 Topics in Literary Genres, Modes, and Forms (4 cr.) [African topics]
  • C670 Topics in Cross-Cultural Studies [with Africa content] (4 cr.)

Economics

  • E592 Economic Development of Less-Developed Countries (3 cr.)

Education

  • H520 Education and Social Issues (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • H551-H552 Comparative Education I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • H560 Education and Change in Societies (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • H620 Seminar in Educational Policy Studies (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • H637 Topical Seminar (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • K780 Seminar in Special Education (1-4 cr.)
  • L601 Theoretical Issues: Study of Language and Literacies (3 cr.)
  • R640 Planning Educational Media Systems: National and International (3 cr.)
  • Z601 Theoretical Issues: Study of Language and Literature [with Africa content]

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

  • E529 Musical Cultures as Systems of Meaning (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • E698 African American Religious Music (3 cr.)
  • F501 Folklore Colloquium (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • F516 Proseminar in Folklore Theory and Method I: Materials of Folklore (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • F523 Field Work in Folklore/Ethnomusicology (3 cr.)
  • F528 Advanced Fieldwork (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • F609 African and Afro-American Folklore/Folk Music (3 cr.)
  • F617 Mid-Eastern Folklore, Life and Music (3 cr) [Topics ex. Islam Among the Folk]
  • F722 Music, (Im)migration and Diaspora (3 cr.)
  • F738 Topics: Mid-Eastern and Arab Mythology (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • F740 History of Ideas in Folklore/Ethnomusicology (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • F750 Performance Studies (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • F755 Folklore, Culture, and Society (3 cr.) [with Africa content]

French

  • F667 Studies in Francophone Literature (3 cr.)

Geography

  • G 501 Research Problems in Geography II (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • G604 Topical Seminar in Food and Agriculture (3 cr.) [with Africa content]

Geological Sciences

  • G561 Paleoecology (3 cr.) [with Africa content]

History

  • E531 African History from Ancient Times to Empires and City States (3 cr.)
  • E532 African History from Colonial Rule to Independence (3 cr.)
  • E533 Conflict in Southern Africa (3 cr.)
  • E534 History of Western Africa (3 cr.)
  • E536 History of East Africa (3 cr.)
  • E538 History of Muslim West Africa (3 cr.)
  • H665 Afro-Latin America (3 cr.)
  • H695 Colloquium in African History (4 cr.)
  • H699 Colloquium in Comparative History (4 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • H795 Seminar in African History (4 cr.)

The Media School

  • J514 International Communication (3 cr.) [with Africa content]
  • J518 Field Experience in Journalism [Uganda] (4 cr.)
  • J614 Globalization, Media, and Social Change (3 cr.) [with Africa content]

Linguistics

  • A501 Introduction to African Linguistics (3 cr.)
  • A502 Language in Africa (3 cr.)
  • A503 Bantu Linguistics (3 cr.)
  • A504 Chadic Linguistics (3 cr.)
  • A747 Seminar in African Linguistics (4 cr.)
  • L619 Language and Society (3 cr.)
  • L625 Bilingualism and Language Contact (3 cr.)
  • L636 Pidgins and Creoles (3 cr.)
  • L653-L654 Field Methods in Linguistics I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • L720 Seminar in Sociolinguistics (3 cr.)

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

  • E500-550 Elementary Hieroglyphic Egyptian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • E501-2 Elementary Middle Egyptian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • E505 Ancient Egyptian History and Civilization (3 cr.)
  • E510 Religions of Ancient Egypt (3 cr.)
  • E590 Directed Readings in Egyptology
  • E600 Intermediate Middle Egyptian (3 cr.)
  • E650 Late Egyptian Grammar and Texts
  • E660-670 Demotic Egyptian I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • E695 Graduate Topics in Egyptology (1-3 cr.)
  • N695 Religions of Ancient Egypt (3 cr.)
  • A500-A550 Elementary Arabic I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • A600-A650 Intermediate Arabic I-II (3-3 cr.)
  • A660-A670 Advanced Arabic I-II (3-3 cr.)

Political Science

  • Y657 Comparative Politics [African Politics] (3 cr.)
  • Y673 Empirical Theory and Methodology (3 cr.) [with Africa content] (3 cr.)

Public and Environmental Affairs

  • N524 Civil Society in Comparative Perspective (3 cr.)
  • N534 NGO management in Comparative Perspective (3 cr.)
  • V550 Topics in Public Affairs (3 cr.) [Africa-related topics]

Public Health

  • E655 Infectious Disease Epidemiology (3 cr.)
  • H504 Breastfeeding: Practice and Policy (3 cr.)
  • H510 Organization of School Health Programs (3 cr.)
  • H514 Health Education in Pre-K - Grade 6 (3 cr.)
  • H650 Seminar in Health Education (various topics) (1-3 cr.)

Spanish and Portuguese

  • P500-501 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World I-II (3 cr.)
  • P515 Women Writing in Portuguese (3 cr.)
  • P520 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World in Transla­tion (3 cr.)
  • P710 Seminar: African Literature in Portuguese (3 cr.)

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