African Studies
Course Descriptions:

Core Courses: 
AFST 101 Introduction to African Civilization
An interdisciplinary survey of the history, geography, literature, culture, politics
and economics, of the peoples and nations of the continent of Africa.

HIST 272 Pre-Colonial Africa
An introduction to the pre-colonial history of sub-Saharan Africa.
Special attention will be focused on the growth of Islam in West Africa, the East African city-states
and kingdoms, and the upheaval in 19th century southern Africa.
African slavery and the slave trade also will be considered.
Prerequisites: History 101-102 or 103-104.

 HIST 273 Modern Africa
A history of the development of Africa during the modern period, including European penetration, the Colonial era, African resistance and independence, and contemporary issues.
Prerequisites: History 101-102 or 103-104.

Elective Courses:
AFST 202 Special Topics in African Studies

ANTH 322 Peoples and Cultures of Africa
A review of the major socio-cultural developments in prehistoric and historic Africa.
Prerequiaite: ANTH 101 or persmission of the instructor.

ENGL 352 Major African Writers
An introduction to contemporary literary masterpieces of major African authors.
Works will include fiction, poetry, and drama.

ENGL 353 African Women Writers
An introduction to the writings of African women, including ABuchi Emechet, Mariama Ba,
Fadhma Amrouche, Nadine Gordimer, and others.

HIST 372 North Africa (The Maghrib)
The people of the Maghrib, the era of the Ottoman conquest, Europan conquest and colonialism, nationalism, and current problems in the region, also the Maghribi role in the Organization of African Unity and the Arab League.
Prerequisites: History 101-102 or 103-104.

HIST 373 West Africa Since 1800
An advanced course in modern West African History, dealing with both English and French West Africa following both a thematic and chronological approach

HIST 361 Special Topics
An intensive examination of major themes in African history since 1500. Specific topic will be listed with the course title when offered.
Prerequisites: History 101-102 or 103-104.

HIST 473 Pan Africanism/ OAU
This course will critically examine the cultural and political contexts involved in the unification and homogenization of continental Africans and those of the diaspora, the reasons for the founding of the Pan-African Movement, the convening of the Pan-African Congress of 1900, the significance of the 1945 Manchester Congress, and the formation of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 and its contemporary role in the regional unification of the continent.
Prerequisites: History 101-102 or 103-104 and permission of the instructor and the department chair.

POLS 322 Politics of Africa Politics of Africa surveys political and related economic and social dynamics in selected African nations.

POLS 339.080 African Wars
African Wars and their catastrophic human costs can be seen as a function of adjusting to postcolonial statehood and to the failures in meeting the requirements of shifting development paradigms. Without doubt, the impacts of colonialism, decolonisation, the Cold War and the semi-coerced adherence to international economic regimes have had a profound impact on African political authority and the way conflicts have been fought on the continent. while true, a more nuanced look reveals that conflict in Africa is also shaped by: poverty, patrimonial politics, corruption, the instrumentalisation of foreign aid, of ethnicity, identity and religion, economic agendas and the competition for resources.

POLS 366 International Diplomacy Studies
This course will examine violence in Africa since independence through to its contemporary wars, with emphasis on the latter.

 FREN 470 African Literature of French
The evolution of the major genres of the African Literature in French south of the Sahara from 1808 to presents and a study of the main literary currents of some of the significant works of the major writers.
LT 150-450 African Literature in Translation

GEOL 290.001 Geology and Development of Modern Africa
Prerequisites: GEOL 101 or 103 and GEOL 105 or HONS 155 and 156
Course topics are: Nile River - geology, history and civilization
Sahara/Sahel - climate change
Rift Valley - tectonics, volcanism, and hominids
South Africa - early mining efforts and Apartheid development