Africana Studies and Research Center|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• ASRC 1822 - FWS: The African American Short Story
• ASRC 1851 - FWS: The Mercenary Menace: Reading Machiavelli’s Prince
• ASRC 1852 - FWS: Queering African American History
• ASRC 1853 - FWS: Race and Colonialism in Modern Germany
• ASRC 1854 - FWS: The World of the Black Panthers
• ASRC 1855 - FWS: The Anthropo(s)cene and African-African Diasporic Cinemas

Arabic:

• ASRC 1201 - Elementary Arabic I (crosslisted)
• ASRC 1202 - Elementary Arabic II (crosslisted)
• ASRC 1203 - Intermediate Arabic I (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2200 - Intermediate Arabic II (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3100 - Advanced Arabic I (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3101 - Advanced Arabic II (crosslisted)

Swahili:

• SWAHL 1100 - Elementary Swahili I
• SWAHL 1101 - Elementary Swahili II
• SWAHL 1107 - Elementary Swahili for Global Health
• SWAHL 2101 - Intermediate Swahili I
• SWAHL 2102 - Intermediate Swahili II
• SWAHL 3103 - Advanced Swahili I

Wolof:

• WOLOF 1117 - Elementary Wolof I
• WOLOF 1118 - Elementary Wolof II
• WOLOF 2118 - Intermediate Wolof I
• WOLOF 2119 - Intermediate Wolof II

Yoruba:

• YORUB 1108 - Introduction to Yoruba I
• YORUB 1109 - Introduction to Yoruba II
• YORUB 2110 - Intermediate Yoruba I
• YORUB 2111 - Intermediate Yoruba II
• YORUB 3110 - Advanced Yoruba I
• YORUB 3111 - Advanced Yoruba II
• YORUB 3120 - Yoruba Foreign Language Across the Curriculum (FLAC)

Zulu

• ZULU 1113 - Elementary Zulu I
• ZULU 1116 - Elementary Zulu II
• ZULU 2116 - Intermediate Zulu I
• ZULU 2117 - Intermediate Zulu II
• ZULU 3113 - Advanced Zulu I
• ZULU 3114 - Advanced Zulu II

Courses Offered by the Africana Studies and Research Center:

• ASRC 1500 - Introduction to Africana Studies (crosslisted)
• ASRC 1590 - History and Popular Culture in Africa (crosslisted)
• ASRC 1595 - [African American History From 1865] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 1900 - Research Strategies in Africana and Latino Studies (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2003 - Africa: The Continent and Its People
• ASRC 2006 - Understanding Global Capitalism Through Service Learning (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2020 - Introduction to African Philosophy (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2212 - Caribbean Worlds (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2235 - [New Visions in African Cinema] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2240 - [Perspectives on the Caribbean] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2308 - [Modern Caribbean History] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2380 - [Performing Hip Hop] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2452 - [Dress Cloth and Identity] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2543 - [In the Crossfire of Empires: Africa and World War II] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2650 - Introduction to African American Literature (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2688 - Cleopatra’s Egypt: Tradition and Transformation (crosslisted)
• ASRC 2771 - [Africa in Hollywood] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3010 - Sweetness: How Sugar Built the Modern World (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3022 - The Comic Self (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3206 - Black Women and Political Leadership (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3302 - [West Africa and the West, 1450 - 1850] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3310 - Afro-Asia: Futurism and Feminism (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3353 - African Politics (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3434 - Underground Railroad Seminar (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3480 - [Brazilian Culture through its Music] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3505 - Blaxploitation Film and Photography (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3507 - African American Literature Through the 1930’s (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3570 - [Colonized and Colonizer: African and European Writers in Conversation] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3612 - Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3626 - Dissent and Protest in U.S. History (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3977 - Body Politics in African Literature, Cinema, and New Media (crosslisted)
• ASRC 3999 - Introduction to African American Cinema (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4001 - Inequality, Environment and Post-Industrialism
• ASRC 4002 - Diasporic and Indigenous Health
• ASRC 4123 - Archipelagoes: Cartographies of Race, Sound, and Sexuality (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4212 - Black Women’s Autobiography in the 21st Century WritingHerStory (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4291 - [Marriage and Divorce in the African Context] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4301 - A Dilemma Revisited: African Americans, Inequality and K-16 Education in America (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4368 - [Reading Édouard Glissant] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4403 - New Black Southern Women Writers (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4602 - Women and Gender Issues in Africa
• ASRC 4662 - [Dark Laboratory: Black and Native Media Ecologies] (
• ASRC 4682 - Medicine and Healing in Africa (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4721 - Peace Building in Conflict Regions: Case Studies Sub-Saharan Africa Israel Palestinian Territories (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4733 - The Future of Whiteness (crosslisted)
• ASRC 4900 - Honors Thesis
• ASRC 4901 - Honors Thesis
• ASRC 4902 - Independent Study
• ASRC 4903 - Independent Study
• ASRC 6003 - Doing Research With Marginalized Populations (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6010 - Psychoanalysis and Race
• ASRC 6015 - [The Politics of Care in African Literature] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6204 - Africana Philosophy: W.E.B Du Bois
• ASRC 6207 - Black Feminist Theories: Sexuality, Creativity, and Power (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6322 - [Readings in 20th Century African-American History] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6326 - Black Women and Political Leadership
• ASRC 6368 - [Reading Édouard Glissant] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6403 - New Black Southern Women Writers (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6405 - Black Ecologies and Climate Injustice
• ASRC 6600 - Education and Development in Africa (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6602 - Women and Gender Issues in Africa
• ASRC 6662 - [Dark Laboratory: Black and Native Media Ecologies] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6819 - Urban Representation (crosslisted)
• ASRC 6900 - Independent Study
• ASRC 6901 - Independent Study
• ASRC 6902 - Africana Studies Graduate Seminar
• ASRC 6903 - Africana Studies Graduate Seminar
• ASRC 7315 - [Music in Urban Africa] (crosslisted)
• ASRC 7682 - Medicine and Healing in Africa (crosslisted)