Africana Studies Minor

African Content Courses

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• AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology and Religions: Shifting Contours and Contested Terrains
• AAST 132 - Introduction to African Studies: Patterns, Issues and Controversies
• AAST 190 - West African Dance Forms I
• AAST 191 - West African Dance Forms II
• AAST 199 - Dance Forms of the African Diaspora
• AAST 203 - Introduction to the Early History of Africa
• AAST 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
• AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa
• AAST 236 - Politics and Society in Africa since the 1980s
• AAST 237 - Colonial America, 1880’s-1960
• AAST 248 - Resistance and Voice: Literature of the African Diaspora
• AAST 280 - Africana Philosophies of Education
• AAST 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin
• ARTH 154 - Approaches to African Art
• ARTH 271 - Looking for Africa in Brazil
• ARTH 272 - Sacred Arts of Vodou and Santeria
• ARTH 371 - African Art in Museums: From Collection to Display
• DANC 191 - West African Dance Forms II
• DANC 199 - Dance Forms–African Diaspora
• DANC 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
• DANC 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin

African American Content Courses

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• AAST 117 - Immigrant and Second-Generation American Narratives
• AAST 171 - Introduction to African American Music I
• AAST 172 - Introduction to African American Music II
• AAST 199 - Dance Forms of the African Diaspora
• AAST 202 - African American History Since 1865
• 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 220 - Doin’ Time: A History of Black Incarceration
• AAST 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
• AAST 231 - African American Politics
• AAST 232 - Africana Philosophy
• AAST 234 - Africana Popular Culture
• AAST 258 - Problems: Talking Book
• AAST 261 - Framing Blackness: African Americans and Film In The United States 1915 to the Present
• AAST 263 - Black English and Voice: An Introduction to Sociolinguistics
• AAST 264 - African American Drama
• AAST 265 - We Real Cool: Considering Afrofuturism in Black Performances
• AAST 268 - Black Arts Workshop
• AAST 280 - Africana Philosophies of Education
• AAST 282 - Black Nationalism
• AAST 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin
• ARTH 271 - Looking for Africa in Brazil
• DANC 199 - Dance Forms–African Diaspora
• DANC 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
• DANC 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin

Caribbean Studies Content Courses

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• AAST 122 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic Part I: Introductory
• AAST 123 - Caribbean Survey: Cuba, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic Part II: Introductory
• AAST 161 - Capoeira Angola I
• AAST 227 - Saint Domingue/Haiti in the Atlantic World
• AAST 229 - Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean
• AAST 262 - Capoeira Angola II
• AAST 347 - Culture, History, and Identity: Caribbean Literature and the Politics of Survival
• AAST 363 - Capoeira Angola III
• AAST 391F - Dance Diaspora - Full
• DANC 161 - Capoeira Angola I
• DANC 262 - Capoeira Angola II

Multidisciplinary Distribution Requirement

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Students are expected to take at least one full course or the equivalent from three of the Department’s five fields: education, politics, history, literature or fine arts.