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  • AAS 4570

    Advanced Research Seminar in African-American & African Studies
     Rating

    4.33

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.18

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Reading, class discussion, and research on a special topic in African-American and African Studies culminating in the composition of a research paper. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor. Primarily for fourth-year students but open to others.

  • AAS 2559

    New Course in African and African American Studies
     Rating

    4.43

     Difficulty

    2.29

     GPA

    3.32

    Last Taught

    Summer 2025

    New course in the subject of African and African American Studies

  • SWAH 1020

    Introductory Swahili II
     Rating

    —

     Difficulty

    —

     GPA

    3.33

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Prerequisite: SWAH 1010.

  • SWAH 2010

    Intermediate Swahili I
     Rating

    —

     Difficulty

    —

     GPA

    3.34

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Develops skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing, and awareness of the cultural diversity of the Swahili-speaking areas of East Africa. Readings drawn from a range of literary and journalistic materials. Prerequisite: SWAH 1020

  • AAS 1559

    New Course in African and African American Studies
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    1.00

     GPA

    3.40

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    New course in the subject of African American Studies.

  • AAS 3559

    New Course in African and African American Studies
     Rating

    2.89

     Difficulty

    3.33

     GPA

    3.41

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    New course in the subject of African and African American Studies.

  • AAS 2224

    Black Femininities and Masculinities in the US Media
     Rating

    4.31

     Difficulty

    2.75

     GPA

    3.42

    Last Taught

    Summer 2025

    This course, taught as a lower-level seminar, will address the role the media has played in creating images and understandings of 'Blackness' in the United States, particularly where it converges with popular ideologies about gender.

  • AAS 3810

    Race, Culture and Inequality
     Rating

    5.00

     Difficulty

    2.00

     GPA

    3.46

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This course will examine how culture matters for understanding race and social inequality. It will survey social science research about cultural forms such as everyday discourse, styles of dress, music, literature, visual arts, and media as they relate to race and inequality.

  • AAS 1010

    Introduction to African-American and African Studies I
     Rating

    4.38

     Difficulty

    2.13

     GPA

    3.48

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This introductory course surveys the histories of people of African descent in Africa, the Americas, and the Caribbean from approximately the Middle Ages to the 1880s. Emphases include the Atlantic slave trade and its complex relationship to Africa; the economic systems, cultures, and communities of Africans and African-Americans in the New World, in slavery and in freedom; the rise of anti-slavery movements; and the socio-economic systems that replaced slavery in the late 19th century.

  • AAS 3500

    Intermediate Seminar in African-American & African Studies
     Rating

    3.87

     Difficulty

    2.70

     GPA

    3.54

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    Reading, class discussion, and written assignments on a special topic in African-American and African Studies. Topics change from term to term, and vary with the instructor.