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Six semester courses on Africa are required. Courses with at least 40 percent of their material on Africa may also count toward the minor. The expected distribution pattern will be two courses drawn from each of the following three fields:

AFS 300  Capstone Colloquium African Studies

Arts, Literature and Humanities

ARH 130          Introduction to Art History:  Africa, Oceania, and Indigenous Americas

CLT 205            Twentieth-Century Literatures of Africa

CLT 266            South African Literature and Film

CLT 267            African Women’s Drama

CLT 271            Writing in Translation: Bilingualism in the Post Colonial Novel

CLT 305            Studies in the Novel:  The Modern African Novel: Texts and Issues

CLT 315            The Feminist Novel in Africa

DAN 377          Interpretation and Analysis of African Dance

FYS 165            Childhood in the Literature of Africa and the African Diaspora

Historical Studies

AAS 218           History of Southern Africa (1600-1900)

AAS 370           Seminar: Modern Southern Africa

HST 101            Biography and History in Africa

HST 256            Introduction to West African History

HST 257            East Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries

HST 258            History of Central Africa

Social Sciences

AAS 202           Topics in Black Studies: Anthropology of the African Diaspora

ANT 230           Africa: Population, Health and Environment Issues

ANT 271           Globalization and Transnationalism in Africa

ANT 272           Women in Africa

ANT 348           Seminar: Health in Africa

ECO 214           Economies of the Middle East and North Africa

GOV 227          Contemporary African Politics

GOV 232          Women and Politics in Africa

GOV 233          Problems in Political Development

GOV 321          Seminar: The Rwanda Genocide in Comparative Perspective

GOV 347          Seminar: North Africa in the International System

 



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