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2018-2019 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED BULLETIN]
African Studies (AFST) courses
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African Studies
AFST 012F - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3
Fall
This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of the faculty in an area of the faculty member’s research interests.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
The course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester. Consult the class schedule for proper category listing. Students may take only one 12F or 12S seminar.
AFST 012S - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 1-3
Spring
This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of the faculty in an area of the faculty member’s research interests.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
The course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester. Specific titles and course descriptions are available here. Students may take only one 12F or 12S seminar.
AFST 014F - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
Fall
This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of the faculty in an area of the faculty member’s research interests.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
The course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester. This course is offered for distribution credit. Students may take only one 14F or 12F seminar and only one 14S or 12S seminar.
AFST 014S - First-Year Seminar Semester Hours: 3-4
Spring
This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of the faculty in an area of the faculty member’s research interests.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
The course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester. This course is offered for distribution credit. Students may take only one 14F or 12F seminar and only one 14S or 12S seminar.
AFST 032 - (BH, CC) Women and Development Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Examination of the historical transformation of the roles of Asian and African women in relation to the different modes of socioeconomic organization of their respective societies. Critical assessment of the impact of social, religious, economic and political systems in defining the status of women in these societies.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as ANTH 032 . Credit given for this course or SOC 032 , not both.
AFST 039 - (CC, CP) The American Experience and Africanist Dance Practices Semester Hours: 3
Fall
This is a studio course introducing students to American dance aesthetics and practices with a focus on how its evolution has been influenced by African American choreographers and dancers. An ongoing study of movement practices from traditional African dances, dances of the African Diaspora, American Jazz dance, modern dance, and American Ballet will be complemented by readings, video viewings, guest speakers and creation of dance studies.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as DNCE 039 .
AFST 043 - (LT, CC) Decolonizing the Mind: Contemporary Literature from Africa to Southeast Asia Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Examination of literary voices from Francophone countries including Senegal, Algeria, Tunisia. Topics include decolonization and the African identity, the search for self, the contradictions of life in the colonies and racism. Readings include works by Memmi, Ben Jelloun, Snow-Fall, Senghor. All works are read and discussed in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as FRLT 043 .
AFST 051 - Readings in African Thought Semester Hours: 1
Fall, Spring
Each student, in consultation with the instructor, selects a key topic or a prominent figure in the world with African experience and explores the ideas generated by and around the topic or personality.
AFST 052 - Readings in African Thought Semester Hours: 1
Fall, Spring
Each student, in consultation with the instructor, selects a key topic or a prominent figure in the world with African experience and explores the ideas generated by and around the topic or personality.
AFST 102 - (BH) African Cultures Semester Hours: 3
Every Other Year
The continent of Africa is the birthplace of humanity and an area of enormous cultural diversity. This course will examine representative contemporary African societies against a backdrop of social, political and economic change.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as ANTH 102 .
AFST 108 - (BH) Afro-American Culture Semester Hours: 3
Every Other Year
Consideration and analysis of the culture of black Americans and black communities; emphasis is on enculturation processes and social forms resulting from antecedents of African culture and pressures from the dominant American culture. Emphasis is on the legacy of slavery.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as ANTH 108 .
AFST 110 - (BH, CC) African Politics Semester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
Investigation of the political culture of Africa which combines indigenous heritage and culture with European colonial influences; and a comparative analysis of political development in African states including struggles for democratization, nationbuilding and socioeconomic development.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as PSC 110 .
AFST 111 - Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Development theories, practices and results evident in the region’s primary industries such as agriculture, pastoral farming, mining and manufacturing from the colonial period to the present. Precolonial socioeconomic formations in each country within the region are examined as background to transformations fostered by colonialism.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
One introductory course in economics. Same as ECO 111 .
AFST 111A - Politics of Race in the United States Semester Hours: 3
Every Other Year
An analysis in depth of the manner in which racial considerations have shaped the American political culture and the extent to which these considerations have affected the formation of public policy on all levels of government. The main emphasis, however, shall be on the national level.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as PSC 111 .
AFST 115 - The Afro-American in American History, 1619-1865 Semester Hours: 3
Every Other Year
From the African origins of black slavery through emancipation and the Civil War. Emphasis is given to the slave trade, the nature of black society under slavery in both North and South, the relation of the American Revolution to the antislavery movement, and the role of blacks in Abolitionism and the Civil War.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Credit given for this course or HIST 115 , not both.
AFST 116 - The Afro-American in American History, 1865 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
Every other year
Emphasis is given to the end of slavery and the successes and failures of Reconstruction, the nature of black society in the era of national segregation and the changes developing during and after the two World Wars. The struggle for civil, educational, economic and political equality is traced in the context of an emerging diversified black leadership, provided by such figures as Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Credit given for this course or HIST 116 , not both.
AFST 117A - (CC) History of Africa to 1800 Semester Hours: 3
Every other year
History of Africa from the traditional period to the beginning of the modern era. Emphasis on Bantu migration, precolonial society and the slave trade.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as HIST 117A .
AFST 118A - History of Africa, 1800 to the Present Semester Hours: 3
Every other year
The colonial period, African nationalism, independence and the apartheid system.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as HIST 118A .
AFST 119 - (HP) Blacks and Jews: Interrelation in the Diaspora Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
An examination of the relations between African-American and Jewish-Americans in the United States from the period of the “Grand Alliance” (ca., 1910-1967) to the current moment of “crisis.” Through the investigation of literature, sociological analysis, historical case studies, opinion pieces, and works of art, this course illuminates the complex and shifting relations between African-Americans and Jewish-Americans and their significance for questions of identity in the modern United States.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as HIST 119 , JWST 119R .
AFST 120 - (BH, CC) African Labor Economics Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Work, working people and working class movements in modern Africa are the focus of this introductory course. Through contemporary and historical cross-country studies of workers in a wide variety of economic, political and institutional settings, we will evaluate rival perspectives on a host of interesting and controversial topics. These include changing occupational and industrial formations, gender and racial/ethnic gaps in jobs and income, poverty and inequality, immigration, urban informal employment, worker training and health care, labor unions, government’s regulatory and job creation roles. This is a distribution course in both the Behavioral Social Sciences and the Cross-Cultural categories.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
One introductory economics course or LABR 001A or instructor’s permission. Credit given either for this course or ECO 120 or LABR 120 , not both.
AFST 121 - The Francophone Experience in Sub-Saharan Africa Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
An introduction to African cultures from the colonial era to post-colonialism through an analysis of literature and film.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
FREN 111 or 113 . Same as FREN 121 .
AFST 122 - Health and Disease in Africa: A Medical Anthropology Perspective Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course focuses on the myriad factors contributing to disease in Africa and the various ways in which African cultures respond behaviorally to disease and illness. We explore the etiology and clinical manifestations of disease and illness and the practices directed toward the alleviation of disease and the promotion of health against a backdrop of the political economy of African nations.
AFST 123 - Life and Death in the Black Community Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course introduces students to the impact of race, class and gender on the health status of African Americans in the United States. It focuses on concepts of race, ethnicity and the perception of human differences; the biological basis of human variation; and the impact of state policies on patterns of disease, reproduction, and death among African Americans with an emphasis on the ethical questions these policies pose.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
One of the following: HIST 115 , 116 ; ANTH 108 .
AFST 124 - The Francophone Experience in North Africa Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
An introduction to Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian cultures from the colonial era to post-colonialism through an analysis of literature and film.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
FREN 004 . Same as FREN 122 .
AFST 134 - (BH) Race Relations in the United States Semester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
Examination of major patterns of racial and ethnic relations in the United States. Historical, contemporary and cross-cultural data are combined with prevalent theoretical perspectives to provide a basic understanding of race and ethnic relations as enduring and embedded aspects of United States society. Topics covered include the political and economic dynamics of race relations, institutional racism, prejudice and discrimination. Particular attention is paid to the African-American experience from slavery to the present.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Credit given for this course or SOC 134 , not both.
AFST 139 - (LT, CC) The African Novel Semester Hours: 3
Introduces selected African novelists of the 20th century such as Chinua Achebe, Sembene Ousmane, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta and Solomon Mutswairo. Analysis of African literary themes, such as traditional and modern conflicts, resistance to colonialism, effects of independence, neocolonial dilemmas and images of the African woman.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as ENGL 139 .
AFST 140 - African American Literature I Semester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
The origins of an African American literary tradition from the Colonial period to the early 20th century. Themes include the African Diaspora, slavery, folk culture, race, and social equality. Such authors as Equiano, Wheatley, Douglass, Brown, Jacobs, Harper, Washington, and Du Bois.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
WSC 001 . Credit given for this course or ENGL 140 , not both.
AFST 141 - (LT) African American Literature II Semester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
The growth of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Such topics as migration, African heritage, protest, vernacular, and gender. Writers include Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, Walker, Morrison, and Wilson.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
WSC 001 . Credit given for this course or ENGL 141 , not both.
AFST 142 - (CC) Archaeology of the African Diaspora Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course examines archaeological and historical studies of people of African descent in the Americas, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade to the early twentieth century. The major objective of this course is to understand the diverse material worlds of African Diasporic communities within the greater historiographies of the Atlantic world. The course reviews archaeological methods, material patterns of African and African-American cultural practices, and the public meanings of minority archaeologies.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as ANTH 142 .
AFST 143 - Economic Development Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Problems of the developing economies of the world, theories of development, requirements for and obstacles to economic development, policies to promote economic redevelopment.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
One introductory course in economics. Same as ECO 143 .
AFST 154 - African Humanism Semester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
African philosophical and religious systems, attitudes and the ways in which those attitudes are reflected in intellectual ideas and national cultures.
AFST 155 - African Humanism Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
Pan-African protest, revolt and rebellion from the Haitian Revolution to the present.
AFST 156 - Economic and Social History of the Caribbean from Slavery to National Independence Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
The plantation economy and the evolution of social classes in selected countries.
AFST 157 - African National Liberation Movements Semester Hours: 3
Fall, Spring
Theory and practice. Ideologies, politics and programs of movements in Namibia and South Africa.
AFST 168 - (CC) Caribbean Experience in Literature Semester Hours: 3
An exploration of the literature of the English-speaking Caribbean (Antigua, Barbados, Belize, Guyana, Jamaica, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, and Trinidad). Emphasis is placed on the ways in which this literature deals with the experience of slavery, colonization, and independence and the ways in which it treats such issues and themes as regional identity, color, race, class, gender, and family relations. Attention is also given to the ways in which the literature and culture of the Caribbean makes use of such cultural elements as Carnival and vernacular Africanized English known as patois and creole.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
WSC 001 . Same as ENGL 168 .
AFST 187 A-Z - (CC) Special Topics Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
These courses deal with innovative or advanced topics and may include field projects. Students prepare individual projects on a research theme.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Specific titles and course descriptions for special topics courses are available in the online class schedule.
AFST 193 - (LT) The Color of Literature Semester Hours: 3
Periodically
This course explores works by ‘writers of color’ and investigates the notion of assigning racial, ethnic, and cultural identity labels to works of literature. Does literature have a color? Can it? How is this relevant to literary study? In a cross-cultural context, we will examine how works of literature reflect the history and discussion of race, ethnicity, and culture in a given society. These works also participate in and give form to issues and debates that extend beyond the work back into society at large.
Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes:
Same as CLL 193 .
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