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Apr 01, 2025

Course Catalog 2024-2025

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Africana Studies
	• AAST 101 - Introduction to Africana Studies
	• AAST 102 - A Dark History: Race, Ethics, and Human Medical Experimentation on Black Bodies in the US
	• AAST 122 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: Indigenous to 1898
	• AAST 123 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic: 1898-1986
	• AAST 124 - Earth Science and Social Justice
	• AAST 126 - Archives ReImagined
	• AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology and Religions: Shifting Contours and Contested Terrains
	• AAST 132 - Introduction to African Studies: Patterns, Issues and Controversies
	• AAST 139 - American Political Thought
	• AAST 144 - History of African and Caribbean Dance
	• AAST 161 - Capoeira Angola I
	• AAST 170 - Intro to Africana Dance and Choreographic Practices
	• AAST 171 - Introduction to African American Music I
	• AAST 172 - Introduction to African American Music II
	• AAST 173 - Introduction to Sequential Illustration: Serial Comic Strips
	• AAST 190 - West African Dance Forms I
	• AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms II
	• AAST 199 - Dance Forms of the African Diaspora
	• AAST 199H - Dance Forms of the African Diaspora
	• AAST 201 - From Reconstruction to the Information Age: African American History 1865 - 2000
	• AAST 202 - African American History Since 1865
	• AAST 213 - Long Walk to Freedom: South Africa Since 1948
	• AAST 215 - I’m That Gworl: The Intersection of Black Women and Queerness in Hip-Hop
	• AAST 216 - Lifting as We Climb: Historically Black Colleges and the Cultural Ideology of Education
	• AAST 217 - Unspoken Images: Complex Identities in Black Film
	• AAST 218 - M4BL: History and Practice of An Idea
	• AAST 219 - Freedom Movements: Civil Rights and Black Power
	• AAST 220 - Doin’ Time: A History of Black Incarceration
	• AAST 221 - Historic and Contemporary Debates in African American Education
	• AAST 222 - Historic and Contemporary Debates in African American Education II
	• AAST 223 - Fingerprints Across Time: Re-memoring and Africana Identity
	• AAST 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
	• AAST 225 - Social Justice in Dance
	• AAST 229 - Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean
	• AAST 231 - African American Politics
	• AAST 232 - Africana Philosophy
	• AAST 234 - Africana Popular Culture
	• AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa
	• AAST 236 - Politics and Society in Africa since the 1980s
	• AAST 241 - Rhythms of Resistance: Carnival, Dance, and the Fight for Social Justice
	• AAST 242 - Framing the Hood: Examining the “Hood Film” and its Significance in Black Art Culture
	• AAST 244 - Modern African Literature
	• AAST 248 - Resistance and Voice: Literature of the African Diaspora
	• AAST 249 - Afrofuturism and Black Speculative Fiction: Black to the Future
	• AAST 251 - How Black Women Made Modern America
	• AAST 253 - African American Political Thought
	• AAST 257 - African American History Through Film
	• AAST 261 - Framing Blackness: African Americans and Film in The United States, 1915 to the Present
	• AAST 262 - Capoeira Angola II
	• AAST 263 - Black English and Voice: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
	• AAST 264 - African American Drama
	• AAST 268 - Black Arts Workshop
	• AAST 273 - Intermediate Trust the Process: The Art of the Study in Formal and Conceptual Design
	• AAST 278 - Workshop: Playwrighting and Performance in the Time of the Black Lives Matter Movement
	• AAST 280 - Africana Philosophies of Education
	• AAST 281 - Practicum in Tutoring
	• AAST 283 - African American Business History
	• AAST 285 - African American Women’s History
	• AAST 289 - Black Wall Streets: African American Urban Experience from Progressive Era to the Great Depression
	• AAST 291 - The Abolitionist Movement
	• AAST 292 - Choreographic Practices for Black Dance, Social Dance, Street Dance, TV, and Social Media
	• AAST 302 - Marxism and the Black Radical Tradition
	• AAST 304 - Africana Humanities in Dialogue
	• AAST 323 - Folkloric Foundations
	• AAST 337 - Seminar: African Capitalists and African Development
	• AAST 341 - Critical Race Theory in Education
	• AAST 346 - Contemporary African American Literature, 1937 to the Present
	• AAST 347 - Culture, History, and Identity: Caribbean Literature and the Politics of Survival
	• AAST 348 - The Evolution of Black Queer Performance and Storytelling: 1920’s-Now
	• AAST 350 - Intermediate Seminar: Research and Practice in Africana Studies
	• AAST 355 - Feminist Theory
	• AAST 357 - Empire and Resistance in the Caribbean
	• AAST 368 - Black Arts Workshop II: African Diasporan Culture in Perfomance from Blues to Hip Hop
	• AAST 372 - The Word and The Beat
	• AAST 382 - Seminar: James Baldwin
	• AAST 450 - Senior Seminar
	• AAST 501F - AAST Junior Honors - Full
	• AAST 501H - AAST Junior Honors - Half
	• AAST 502F - AAST Senior Honors - Full
	• AAST 502H - AAST Senior Honors - Half
	• AAST 995F - Private Reading - Full
	• AAST 995H - Private Reading - Half
Anthropology
	• ANTH 101 - Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
	• ANTH 102 - Human Origins
	• ANTH 202 - Fundamentals of Linguistics
	• ANTH 203 - Introduction to Archaeology
	• ANTH 204 - Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology
	• ANTH 210 - Indigenous Peoples of Latin America
	• ANTH 212 - Ecological Perspectives on Small-Scale Societies
	• ANTH 213 - Anthropology of Food
	• ANTH 217 - Music and the Environment in Northeast Asia
	• ANTH 227 - Medical Anthropology
	• ANTH 241 - Digital Worlds: Anthropology of the Internet
	• ANTH 263 - Metaphors of Blood: Cultural Constructions of Race, Kinship, and Genetics
	• ANTH 270 - Anthropology of Religion
	• ANTH 277 - Reading Ethnography
	• ANTH 278 - Human Rights, Universalism and Cultural Relativism
	• ANTH 317 - Qualitative Methods in Environmental Anthropology
	• ANTH 322 - Language, Disability, and Sensory Ecologies
	• ANTH 353 - Culture Theory

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