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African Studies
Margo Dickinson
Department Coordinator
Carnegie 04
651-696-6381

African studies draws faculty from and cross-lists classes with many other departments.

Fall 2012 Courses - Tier ONE

ANTH 394 Gender, Power and Sexualities in Africa MWF 10:50-11:50 Shandy
FREN 407 Voix du Sud TR 1:20-2:50 Karegeye
HIST 194 African Life Histories (FYC) TR 9:40-11:10 Monson
MUSI 131 African Music TR 9:40-11:10 Mensah

 

Fall 2012 Courses - Tier TWO

BIOL/CHEM 394 Projects in Global Health W 7:00-10:00 Hoye, Chatterjea, Jansen
GEOG/ENVI 232 People, Agriculture and the Environment TR 9:40-11:10 Moseley
GEOG/ENVI 488
INTL 477		 Comparative Environment & Development Studies TR 1:20-2:50 Moseley
HIST 256 Transatlantic Slave Trade TR 1:20-2:50 STAFF
INTL/ENGL 367 Postcolonial Theory MWF 9:40-10:40 Moore
INTL 282 Intro to International Public Health MWF 10:50-11:50 Hanson
SOCI/INTL 280 Indigenous People's Movements MWF 2:20-3:20 Larson

 

Representative courses for the African Studies concentration

Anthropology

  • Medical Anthropology
  • Gender and Power in Africa
  • Peoples and Cultures of Africa
  • Culture and Globalization
  • Gender and Development in Africa

English

  • Anglophone Literature
  • Literature of the Americas
  • African Literature

French and Francophone Studies

  • Francophone Studies: Haiti, Guadeloupe, Martinique
  • West and Equatorial African Cinema

Geography

  • Geography of Africa: Local Resources and Livelihoods in a Global Context
  • Comparative Environment and Development Studies

History

  • Africa Since 1800
  • African Life Histories
  • History of Africa to 1800
  • Comparative Freedom Movements:The United States and South Africa
  • Transatlantic Slave Trade
  • Farm and Forest: African Environmental History

International Studies

  • Postcolonial Theory

Music

  • African Music

Political Science

  • Development Politics
  • Introduction to African Politics

Sociology

  • Indigenous Peoples' Movements in Global Context
  • Political Sociology

Theatre and Dance

  • African Dance