(Also offered as SWAH 101) Foundation course for all beginning students interested in reading or speaking the language. {Offered upon demand}

(Also offered as SWAH 102) This course builds directly upon AFST 101, and is designed to bring the students beyond a novice-intermediate or intermediate level of competence. Prerequisite: 101.

An interdisciplinary course that introduce students to the histories, cultures, and experiences of global people of African descent.

(Also offered as CCS, NATV, SUST, WMST 109) The course explores historical and contemporary social forces that impact ethnic communities across the Americas. Students will examine social and economic dynamics of Indigenous, Latino, Asian-Pacific, Africana communities, and women's experiences.

Survey of African-American history from the African past to the present. Themes covered are the African background, holocaust of enslavement, emancipation and reconstruction, Jim Crow, civil rights, Black power, and the post-industrial/post civil rights eras.

(Also offered as ENGL 266) The course introduces students to the African-American classics of the slavery era. Daily experiences of the characters in these books become the basis for discussing race, class, gender, revolt, freedom, peace and humanity.

(Also offered as WMST 255) This survey course reviews the contributions of Black women to the Black Diasporic story.

Special topic courses in specialized areas of African-American Studies. Community Economic Development; Race and American Law; Culture and Personality.

An introduction to African Diaspora communities, cultures, and language through a field based-practicum in various global regions.

(Also offered as POLS 329) An introductory course in the volatile politics in Africa. The various ideologies that underlie political movements and influence African governments will be explored.

Survey course of the literature and philosophy of the Black Diaspora.

A comprehensive analysis of the plight of Black people in Latin America as compared with their experiences in North America, from the 15th to 19th century.

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Special topic courses in specialized areas of African-American Studies. African-American Literature; Sociopolitics: Africa; Politics of Southern Africa; Black Books III, Education and African-American Education and Free Society. {Fall, Spring}

Explorations of a variety of advanced topics in Africana Studies.