100% Africa Content Courses

African Studies

• AFRI-L 100 Topics in African Society and Culture (3 cr.) (Approved topics: Gumboot Dance: Beauty from Pain; Reed Dance; Political Leadership in Africa; Southern African Culture, Song, and Dance)
• AFRI-L 202 Occultism in Africa (3 cr.)
• AFRI-L 210 Akan Popular and Oral Art (3 cr.)
• AFRI-L 231 or HIST-H 227 African Civilizations (3 cr.)
• AFRI-L 232 Contemporary Africa (3 cr.)
• AFRI-L 400 Topics in African Studies (3 cr.)
• AFRI-X 390 Readings and Research in African Studies (1-3 cr.)
• AFRI-X 473 Internship in African Studies (1-4 cr.)

Anthropology

• ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (1-3 cr.) (Approved topic: Islam in and out of Africa; other Africa-focused topics)
• ANTH-E 309 Problems in African Ethnography (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 312 African Religions (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 417 African Women
• ANTH-P 314 Early Prehistory of Africa (3 cr.)
• ANTH-P 315 Later Prehistory of Africa (3 cr.)

Art History

• ARTH-A 155 Introduction to African Art (3 cr.);
• ARTH-A 352 Art of Eastern and Southern Africa (3 cr.)
• ARTH-A 355 Art, Craft, and Technology in Sub-Saharan Africa (3 cr.)
• ARTH-A 356 Art of Central Africa (3 cr.)
• ARTH-A 453 Art of Sub-Saharan Africa I: Arts of Africa's Western Sudan (3 cr.)

Comparative Literature

• CMLT-C 261 Introduction to African Literature (3 cr.)
• CMLT-C 361 African Literature and Other Arts (3 cr.)
• CMLT-C 390 Film and Society (3 cr.) (Approved topic: African Cinema and Politics)

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

• FOLK-E 302 Music in African Life (3 cr.)
• FOLK-F 301 African Folklore/Folklife/Folk Music (3 cr.) (Approved topics: Music in African Life; African Music Performance; West African Music)

Geography

• GEOG-G 425 Africa: Contemporary Geography Problems (3 cr.)

History

• HIST-E 300 Issues in African History (3 cr.)
• HIST-E 331 African History from Ancient Times to Empires and City States (3 cr.)
• HIST-E 332 African History from Colonial Rule to Independence (3 cr)
• HIST-E 333 Conflict in Southern Africa (3 cr.)
• HIST-E 340 African History and Popular Culture (3 cr.)
• HIST-H 227 African Civilizations (3 cr.)
• HIST-J 300 Seminar in History (3 cr.) topics: African Military History; Seminar on Contemporary Africa; African History of Technology; other Africa-focused topics)

Linguistics

• LING-L 210 Topics in Language and Society (3 cr.) (Approved topic: African Communication and Culture)
• LING-L 480 Introduction to African Linguistics (3 cr.)
• LING-L 481 Language in Africa (3 cr.)

Near Eastern Languages and Cultures

• NELC-E 201 Ancient Egyptian History and Civilization (3 cr.)
• NELC-E 301 Religions of Ancient Egypt (3 cr.)
• NELC-N 204 Topics in Middle Eastern Culture and Society (3 cr.) (Approved topics: Good and Evil in Ancient Egypt; Ancient Egypt Stories and Poetry)

Political Science

• POLS-Y 338 African Politics (3 cr.)

Kelley School of Business

• BUS-L 272 Global Business Immersion: Business Law and Ethics (3 cr.) (only with Africa focus)

School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs (3 cr.) (Approved topic: African Political Economy)

Courses with 25% or higher Africa content

African American and African Diaspora Studies

• AAAD-A 100 African American Dance Company: Foundations and Practices (2 cr.)
• AAAD-A 154 History of Race in the Americas (3 cr.)
• AAAD-A 156 Black Liberation Struggles against Jim Crow and Apartheid (3 cr.)
• AAAD-A 210 Black Women in the Diaspora (3 cr.)
• AAAD-A 350 Black Atlantic (3 cr.)
• AAAD-A 360 Slavery: Worldwide Perspective (3 cr.)
• AAAD-A 407 African American and African Protest Strategies (3 cr.)
• AAAD-A 420 Transforming Divided Communities and Societies (3 cr.) (only with Africa content)
• AAAD-A 430 The Cinema of Africana Women (3 cr.)

Anthropology

• ANTH-A 107 Becoming Human: Evolving Genes, Bodies, Behaviors, Ideas (3 cr.)
• ANTH-A 205 Anthropology Today: Selected Topics in Current Research (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Exploring Sustainable Agriculture and Trade)
• ANTH-B 200 Bioanthropology (3 cr.)
• ANTH-B 368 The Evolution of Primate Social Behavior (3 cr.)
• ANTH-B 464 Human Paleontology (3 cr.)
• ANTH-B 466 The Primates (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 300 Culture Areas and Ethnic Groups (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Nature and Culture:Perspectives in Environment Anthropology; Photography and Ethnography; other topics with Africa content)
• ANTH-E 314 Voices of Women (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 386 Performance, Culture, and Power in the Middle East and North Africa (3 cr.)
• ANTH-E 400 Undergraduate Seminar (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Money, Materiality, and Value; other topics with Africa content)
• ANTH-E 444 People and Protected Areas (3 cr.)
• ANTH-P 210 Life in the Stone Age (3 cr.)

Art + Design, School of

• SOAD-F 301 Dress Studies: Topics in Cultural Analysis (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)

Art History

• ARTH-A 327 Survey of Islamic Art (3 cr.)
• ARTH-A 458 Topics in the Ethnographic Arts (3 cr.) (Approved topics)

College of Arts and Sciences

• COLL-C 103 Critical Approaches to the Arts and Humanities (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Ebonics: The Controversy over African American Vernacular English)
• COLL-C 105 Critical Approaches to the Natural and Mathematical Sciences (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Sister Species)

Comparative Literature

• CMLT-C 262 Cross-Cultural Encounters (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Love and War across Borders)
• CMLT-C 291 Studies in Non-Western Film (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)
• CMLT-C 301 Special Topics in Comparative Literature (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Folklore and Magical/Animist Realism)
• CMLT-C 318 Satire (3 cr.)
• CMLT-C 343 Literature and Politics (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Migrants, Refugees and Cosmopolitans)
• CMLT-C 360 Diasporic Literatures (3 cr.) (only with Africa content)
• CMLT-C 363 Black Paris (3 cr.)

Folklore and Ethnomusicology

• FOLK-E 112 Black Music of Two Worlds (3 cr.)
• FOLK-E 297 Popular Music of Black America (3 cr.)
• FOLK-E 496 African American Religious Music (3 cr.)
• FOLK-F 252 Folklore and the Humanities (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Global Pop Music)
• FOLK-F 450 Music in Religious Thought and Experience (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies faculty)

French and Italian

• FRIT-F 222 Media Studies in the Francophone World (3 cr.)
• FRIT-F 300 Reading and Expression in French (3 cr.)(Approved topics: Manger, boire...; Desire, soffrance et liberte)

History

• HIST-J 400 Seminar in History (3 cr.) (Approved topics: Indian Ocean - Cradle of Globalization; Cold War and the Civil Rights Movement)
• HIST-W 200 Issues in World History (3 cr.) (Approved topic: World War I from the Margins)
• HIST-W 300 Issues in World History (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Slavery and Unfreedom)

Hutton Honors College

• HON-H 237 Law and Society (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Coffee, Culture, and Global Exchange)

International Studies

• INTL-I 206 Peace and Conflict (3 cr.) (only with Africa content)
• INTL-I 303 Advanced Topics in Global Development (Approved topic: Comparative Politics of Natural Resources: Linking the Global and the Local)

Linguistics

• LING-L 112 Language and Politics (3 cr.)
• LING-L 306 Phonetics (3 cr.)
• LING-L 308 Morphology (3 cr.)
• LING-L 315 Introduction to Sociolinguistics (3 cr.)
• LING-L 485 Topics in Linguistics (3 cr.) (Approved topic: Advanced Phonology)

The Media School

• MSCH-F 204 Topics in Media, Culture, and Society (3 cr.) (Approved topics: Emerging Media: Nollywood Films; Migrants and Refugees in Film)

Political Science

• POLS-Y 107 Introduction to Comparative Politics (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)
• POLS-Y 343 The Politics of International Development (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)

Spanish and Portuguese

• HISP-P 290 Global Portuguese: Arts and Culture (Approved topic: Portuguese around the World)
• HISP-P 401 Literatures of the Portuguese-Speaking World II (3 cr.)
• HISP-P 405 Literature and Film in Portuguese (3 cr.)
• HISP-P 415 Women Writing in Portuguese (3 cr.)

School of Public and Environmental Affairs

• SPEA-V 160 National and International Policy (3 cr.) (Sections taught by African Studies Program faculty)
• SPEA-V 450 Contemporary Issues in Public Affairs (3 cr.) (Approved topics: Global Governance in the 21st Century; NGO Management in Comparative Perspective; Third World Development; U.S. Foreign Policy and Third World Regimes)

School of Public Health

• SPH-F 347 Human Development 2: Mid-Childhood through Adolescence (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)
• SPH-H 150 Children's Health up to Age 5 (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)
• SPH-H 414 Health Education in Pre-Kindergarten Grade 6 (3 cr.) (when taught by African Studies Program faculty)