Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC)Arts and Sciences

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ASRC 1120
Wonder Women

This course brings together students, faculty, and invited guests to discuss the art of leadership and the opportunities and challenges women in leadership roles have encountered in their careers and how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COMM 1120, DSOC 1120

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  •  9468 ASRC 1120   LEC 001

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  • This is a Learning Where You Live course.

ASRC 1121
Reel Africa

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  • 17846 ASRC 1121   SEM 101

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ASRC 1201
Elementary Arabic I

This two-course sequence assumes no previous knowledge of Arabic and provides a thorough grounding in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It starts with the alphabet ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6032 ASRC 1201   SEM 102

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6033 ASRC 1201   SEM 103

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6034 ASRC 1201   SEM 104

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8394 ASRC 1201   SEM 105

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ASRC 1203
Intermediate Arabic I

In this two-course sequence learners continue to develop the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing and grammar foundation through the extensive use of graded materials on a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1203

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6036 ASRC 1203   SEM 102

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1203

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8610 ASRC 1203   SEM 103

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ASRC 1500
Introduction to Africana Studies

This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas.  This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 1500, GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7840 ASRC 1500   LEC 001

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  • This course will not fulfill the introductory course requirement for Government.

ASRC 1595
African American History From 1865

Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction "Nadir" of black life; the mass black ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 1595, HIST 1595

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8929 ASRC 1595   LEC 001

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ASRC 1650
Philosophy of Race

This course offers an introduction to the philosophy of race. It canvasses key debates in the field concerning the metaphysical status of race, the relationship between the concept of race and racism (and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 1650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18813 ASRC 1650   LEC 001

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ASRC 1816
FWS: Writing Black Life Experience and Black Lives

An examination of selected works by Zora Neale Hurston which allows the students to study this writer and simultaneously address issues of self-invention, creativity, the imagination and the writing of ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18207 ASRC 1816   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/

ASRC 1825
FWS: Educational Innovations in Africa and Diaspora

This course deals with educational innovations geared to promoting equal opportunity based on gender, race and class, in Africa and the African Diaspora. After an introduction of the concepts and theories ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18208 ASRC 1825   SEM 101

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    • TR Uris Hall 398

    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/

ASRC 1832
FWS: Thinking Heidegger: Reading Was Heisst Denken

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18773 ASRC 1832   SEM 101

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  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/

ASRC 2003
Africa: The Continent and Its People

An introductory interdisciplinary course focusing on Africa's geographical, ecological, social and demographic characteristics; indigenous institutions and values; multiple cultural heritage of Africanity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9182 ASRC 2003   LEC 001

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ASRC 2235
New Visions in African Cinema

This undergraduate course introduces the formal and topical innovations that African cinema has experienced since its inception in the 1960s. Sections will explore, among others, Nollywood, sci-fi, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2235, ENGL 2935

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9409 ASRC 2235   SEM 101

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ASRC 2543
In the Crossfire of Empires: Africa and World War II

World War II was one of the most transformative periods in the history of the 20th century. As a result, scholars, writers and filmmakers continue to re-examine the war from multiple angles. Nonetheless, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2543

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16625 ASRC 2543   LEC 001

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ASRC 3022
Dave Chappelle: American Comic

Using Iceberg Slim's "Pimp," Sigmund Freud's writing on humor, Richard Pryor's "Pryor Convictions" (inter alia), as well as Chappelle's own work (from his standup routines to clips from the "Chappelle ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16124 ASRC 3022   SEM 101

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ASRC 3031
Race and Revolution in the Americas: 1776-1900

This course will examine the "age of democratic revolutions" in the Americas from the perspective of the Black Atlantic. During this momentous era, when European monarchies were successfully challenged ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3032, HIST 3031, LATA 3031

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16773 ASRC 3031   LEC 001

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ASRC 3100
Advanced Arabic I

In this two-semester sequence, learners will be introduced to authentic, unedited Arabic language materials ranging from short stories, and poems, to newspaper articles dealing with social,  political,  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 3201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6037 ASRC 3100   SEM 101

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ASRC 3206
Black Women and Political Leadership

This course studies the life experiences and political struggles of black women who have attained political leadership. It will study their rise to political power through an examination of the autobiographies ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6326, ENGL 3606, FGSS 3206

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16120 ASRC 3206   SEM 101

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ASRC 3310
Afro-Asia: Futurism and Feminisms

This course explores cultural representations of Afro-Asian intimacies and coalition in novels, songs, films, paintings, and poems. What affinities, loves and thefts, and tensions are present in cultural ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16126 ASRC 3310   SEM 101

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ASRC 3353
African Politics

This is an introductory course on the politics of Sub-Saharan Africa. The goal is to provide students with historical background and theoretical tools to understand present-day politics on the continent. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 3353

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19075 ASRC 3353   LEC 001

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  • 19076 ASRC 3353   DIS 201

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  • 19077 ASRC 3353   DIS 202

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  • 19078 ASRC 3353   DIS 203

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  • 19079 ASRC 3353   DIS 204

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ASRC 3550
Modeling Race, Fashioning Beauty

This course explores written and visual biographies of African American and African women in the fashion industry as a launching point for thinking about beauty, race, gender and class. Some of the questions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3560, FGSS 3540

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16144 ASRC 3550   SEM 101

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ASRC 3612
Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble

Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble is an introductory performance course where students learn performance traditions from across West Africa. No prior experience is necessary. Students may choose to focus ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3612, PMA 3212

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  •  9602 ASRC 3612   STU 501

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ASRC 3742
Africans and African Americans in Literature

When an African and an African American meet, solidarity is presumed, but often friction is the result. In this course, we will consider how Africans and African Americans see each other through literature. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3732, ENGL 3742

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16376 ASRC 3742   SEM 101

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ASRC 4509
Toni Morrison's Novels

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955.  To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16139 ASRC 4509   SEM 101

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Syllabi: none

  • 18961 ASRC 4509   SEM 102

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ASRC 4733
The Future of Whiteness

How should anti-racist people respond to the new racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States? What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? How can ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •  8832 ASRC 4733   SEM 101

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ASRC 4900
Honors Thesis

For senior Africana Studies majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5363 ASRC 4900   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6188 ASRC 4900   IND 604

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6594 ASRC 4900   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6189 ASRC 4900   IND 608

    • TBA

    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6190 ASRC 4900   IND 609

    • TBA

    • Hassan, S

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6191 ASRC 4900   IND 610

    • TBA

    • Farred, G

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6595 ASRC 4900   IND 612

    • TBA

    • Richardson, R

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7100 ASRC 4900   IND 615

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7465 ASRC 4900   IND 616

    • TBA

    • Aching, G

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7466 ASRC 4900   IND 617

    • TBA

    • Rooks, N

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7564 ASRC 4900   IND 618

    • TBA

    • Byfield, J

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8411 ASRC 4900   IND 622

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    • TBA

    • Taiwo, O

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8429 ASRC 4900   IND 623

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    • TBA

    • Grovogui, S

ASRC 4902
Independent Study

For students working on special topics, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7565 ASRC 4902   IND 601

    • TBA

    • Byfield, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5365 ASRC 4902   IND 602

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6215 ASRC 4902   IND 604

    • TBA

    • LaBennett, O

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6596 ASRC 4902   IND 607

    • TBA

    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6216 ASRC 4902   IND 608

    • TBA

    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6217 ASRC 4902   IND 609

    • TBA

    • Hassan, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6218 ASRC 4902   IND 610

    • TBA

    • Farred, G

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6219 ASRC 4902   IND 612

    • TBA

    • Richardson, R

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7082 ASRC 4902   IND 615

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7209 ASRC 4902   IND 616

    • TBA

    • Ademoyo, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7469 ASRC 4902   IND 617

    • TBA

    • Aching, G

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7470 ASRC 4902   IND 618

    • TBA

    • Rooks, N

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7566 ASRC 4902   IND 619

    • TBA

    • Bulugu, H

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7567 ASRC 4902   IND 621

    • TBA

    • Staff

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ASRC 6131
A Greater Caribbean: New Approaches to Caribbean History

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6131, LATA 6131

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17955 ASRC 6131   SEM 101

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  • Enrollment limited to: Graduate Students.

ASRC 6326
Black Women and Political Leadership

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3206, ENGL 3606, FGSS 3206

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 19120 ASRC 6326   SEM 101

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ASRC 6513
Toni Morrison's Novels

Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison received her M.A. in English at Cornell University in 1955.  To study her, in a way, is to gain a deeper understanding of how she journeyed on from her days as a student here ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17666 ASRC 6513   SEM 101

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Syllabi: none

  • 18970 ASRC 6513   SEM 102

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ASRC 6610
Afro-Asia: Futurism and Feminisms

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 19121 ASRC 6610   SEM 101

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ASRC 6900
Independent Study

Independent study course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6029 ASRC 6900   IND 601

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    • TBA

    • Staff

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6197 ASRC 6900   IND 602

  •  
    • TBA

    • Ademoyo, A

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6198 ASRC 6900   IND 603

  •  
    • TBA

    • Staff

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6597 ASRC 6900   IND 605

  •  
    • TBA

    • Boyce Davies, C

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6199 ASRC 6900   IND 606

  •  
    • TBA

    • Assie-Lumumba, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6200 ASRC 6900   IND 607

  •  
    • TBA

    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6201 ASRC 6900   IND 608

  •  
    • TBA

    • Farred, G

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6598 ASRC 6900   IND 610

  •  
    • TBA

    • Richardson, R

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7081 ASRC 6900   IND 612

  •  
    • TBA

    • Staff

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7386 ASRC 6900   IND 613

  •  
    • TBA

    • Byfield, J

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7467 ASRC 6900   IND 614

  •  
    • TBA

    • Aching, G

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7468 ASRC 6900   IND 615

  •  
    • TBA

    • Rooks, N

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7718 ASRC 6900   IND 616

  •  
    • TBA

    • Bulugu, H

Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7976 ASRC 6900   IND 622

  •  
    • TBA

    • Staff

ASRC 6902
Africana Studies Graduate Seminar

This class is the first in a two-part course sequence offered in the fall and spring semesters annually. In this hybrid theory and methods course, students will read historiographic, ethnographic, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: History, Political and Social Analysis

  •  7839 ASRC 6902   SEM 101

  •