Africana Studies Minor

African Content Courses

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• AAST 124  /  GEOS 124 - Earth Science and Social Justice
• AAST 131 - Traditional African Cosmology and Religions: Shifting Contours and Contested Terrains
• AAST 132 - Introduction to African Studies: Patterns, Issues and Controversies
• AAST  /  DANC 190 - West African Dance Forms I
• AAST  /  DANC 191 - West African Dance Forms II
• AAST  /  DANC 199 - Dance Forms–African Diaspora
• AAST  /  DANC 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
• AAST 235 - Government and Politics of Africa
• AAST 236 - Politics and Society in Africa since the 1980s
• AAST 248 - Resistance and Voice: Literature of the African Diaspora
• AAST 280 - Africana Philosophies of Education
• AAST  /  DANC 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin
• ARTH 154 - Approaches to African Art
• ARTH 271 - Looking for Africa in Brazil
• ARTH 272 - Sacred Arts of Vodou and Santería
• ARTH 283 - Gender and Power in the Arts of Africa
• ARTH 371 - African Art in Museums: From Collection to Display

African American Content Courses

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• AAST 171 - Introduction to African American Music I
• AAST 172 - Introduction to African American Music II
• AAST  /  DANC 199 - Dance Forms–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  /  DANC 224 - Beginning Choreography in Cultural Traditions
• AAST 231 - African American Politics
• AAST 232 - Africana Philosophy
• AAST 234 - Africana Popular Culture
• AAST 258 - Intermediate: 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 268 - Black Arts Workshop
• AAST 280 - Africana Philosophies of Education
• AAST 282 - Black Nationalism
• AAST 291  /  POLT 291 - The Abolitionist Movement
• AAST 341 - Critical Race Theory in Education
• AAST  /  DANC 370 - Djapo Dance @ Oberlin
• ARST 172 - Introduction to Narrative Art Seminar
• ARTH 271 - Looking for Africa in Brazil
• ARTH 282 - Black Feminist Art: Contemporary Feminist Practices from Africa and its Diasporas
• ARTH 382 - The Feminine as Method for Art Histories of the Black Atlantic

Caribbean Studies Content Courses

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• 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  /  DANC 161 - Capoeira Angola I
• AAST 227 - Saint Domingue/Haiti in the Atlantic World
• AAST 229 - Radical Thinkers and Movements in the Caribbean
• AAST  /  DANC 262 - Capoeira Angola II
• AAST 347 - Culture, History, and Identity: Caribbean Literature and the Politics of Survival
• AAST 357 - Empire and Resistance in the Caribbean (Haiti, Jamaica, Grenada, & Trinidad)
• AAST 363 - Capoeira Angola III
• ARTH 282 - Black Feminist Art: Contemporary Feminist Practices from Africa and its Diasporas
• ARTH 382 - The Feminine as Method for Art Histories of the Black Atlantic

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.