Courses
Smith College reserves the right to make changes to all announcements and course listings online, including changes in its course offerings, instructors, requirements for the majors and minors, and degree requirements.
100-level Courses
Fall 2013
- AAS 111 Introduction to Black Culture
- AAS 117 History of Afro-American People to 1960
- AAS (ENG) 175 African-American Literature 1900-Present
Spring 2014
- AAS 155 Intro to Black Women's Studies
200-level Courses
Fall 2013
- AAS (ENG) 245 The Harlem Renaissance
- AAS 254 Race and Identity in the Global City
- AAS 289 Feminism, Race and Resistance: History of Black Women in America
Spring 2014
- AAS 201 Methods of Inquiry
- AAS 202 Topics in Black Studies: Race and Love
- AAS 202 Topics in Black Studies: Black Music and Literature
- AAS 212 Family Matters
- AAS 232 The Black Church in the United States
- AAS 278 The 60's: A History of Afro-Americans in the United States from 1954-1970
300-level Courses
Fall 2013
- AAS 327 Race and Conflict
- AAS 370 Seminar: Modern Southern Africa
Spring 2014
- AAS 335 Seminar: Free Blacks in the U.S. Before 1865
400-level Courses
Fall 2013
- AAS 400 Special Studies
- AAS 430D Honors Project
- AAS 431 Honors Thesis
Spring 2014
- AAS 400 Special Studies
- AAS 430D Honors Thesis
- AAS 431 Honors Project
Additional courses related to Afro-American Studies
As an interdisciplinary department, we encourage students to explore course opportunities in other departments and in the Five Colleges. Some examples are listed below. Students should check departmental entries to find out the year and semester particular courses are being offered.
ANT 230 Africa: Peoples, Environment and Development Issues
ANT 271 Globalization and Transformation in Africa
CLT 256 Studies in South African Literature and Film: Topic: The Political Imagination in Contemporary South Africa
ECO 230 Urban Economics
ENG 249 Literatures of the Black Atlantic
ENG 309 Black Prison Intellectuals
GOV 204 Urban Politics
GOV 257 Refugee Politics
HST 234 Global Africa
HST 257 Early African History to 1800
HST 258 History of Modern Africa since 1800
HST 259 Aspects of African History: Women in African Colonial Histories
HST 265 Race, Gender, and United States Citizenship, 1776-1861
HST 266 The Age of the American Civil War
HST 270 Aspects of American History: Slavery in the Atlantic World
HST 371 Problems in 19th Century United States History: African-American Historical Memory
PHI 210 Issues in Recent and Contemporary Philosophy: African American Philosophy
PHI 254 African Philosophy
SOC 213 Race and National Identity in the United States
SOC 214 Sociology of Hispanic Caribbean Communities in the United States
SOC 218 Urban Sociology
SWG 201 Queer Black Studies, An Introduction **
SWG 300 The Gay 80's
THE 319 Shamans, Shapeshifters, and the Magic If
**These courses are cross-listed with Afro-American Studies
