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AFST 280B - Special Topics
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AFST 280D - Special Topics
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AFST 280E - Special Topics
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AFST 280F - Special Topics
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AFST 280H - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 280I - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 280L - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 280N - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 280P - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 280R - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 281G - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 281K - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 283A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 283F - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 284A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 284C - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 285C - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 285D - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 288A - Special Topics
Credits: 2
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AFST 289J - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 317 - African Women & Feminism
Credits: 4
An interdisciplinary approach to issues of importance to African women drawing extensively from a range of theoretical writings, literary and/or filmic works to study the political, social and economic roles of women. Paying close attention to culture, it examines the impact of colonialism, nationalism, dictatorship and military rule on women’s autonomy, agency and rights within and outside the family. This course is offered in the spring.
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AFST 325 - Healing in African History
Credits: 4
Health and Healing are topics of intense interest to all human societies. There is a tradition in Africanist historiography that examines the political theory of statecraft in Africa through the metaphor of ‘public healing’. Beginning with that tradition, this course looks at the history of African healing traditions, and how they relate to contemporary traditions of resistance and resilience within African and African diaspora communities. Prerequisite: AFST 101 and at least one other AFST course. Offered every other spring.
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AFST 329 - Advanced African Dance
Credits: 4
Dance is one of the oldest art forms in Africa. It reflects the culture of people in many contexts. This course expands on intro class in authentic African dance traditions from Ghana. It explores the meaning, values and various contexts in which dance is performed among Ghanaian societies. More in depth study of various movements, gestures and expressions as a significant means of communicating ideas and enforcing social bonds. Students will also learn new songs that accompany the dances to deepen their understanding and interrelatedness of holistic African and Ghanaian music and dance cultures. Pre-requisite: THEA 229.
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AFST 340 - Women & U.S. Criminal Jus Sys
Credits: 4
Examines the types of offenses for which women are arrested, the punishment they receive, and the treatment they face once institutionalized. Attention is also given to how women respond to the conditions of incarceration.
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AFST 345 - Race, Philosophy and the Law
Credits: 4
This course examines the impact of race on the law, contemporary legal matters and the criminal justice system, legal rationalizations of whiteness and colorblindness, and the philosophical justifications of white supremacy. Readings will be drawn from philosophy, law and sociology, and will vary from year to year at the discretion of instructor. This course will be taught once per year.
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AFST 360 - Refugee and Immigrant Health
Credits: 4
Millions that make up the foreign-born population in the U.S. include migrant workers, permanent settlers, visitors, refugees and asylum seekers from every corner of the globe. While they leave behind health risks such as malaria, acculturation into the American lifestyle can present them with new chronic disease risks such as obesity. This course will examine the health issues facing these populations, and how their health is mediated through home country experiences and exposures, culture, language, healthcare services, the legal landscape, economic opportunities, and xenophobia. It will examine the history of immigration and refugees policies in America, and its health implications.
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AFST 367 - African Kingship
Credits: 4
As living ancestors, African kings and queens were seen as socio-political and spiritual leaders. However, the kingship nowadays does not enjoy the same power and authority as the past. Why? The course, therefore, studies divine kingship, systems of succession, king-making rites, and how the West undermined the authority of traditional rulers through policies like assimilation and direct and indirect rule. Course offering varies.
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AFST 370 - Christ & Jews in Islamic Spain
Credits: 4
This course acquaints students with the contribution of Muslims, Christians and Jews to Al-Andalus (Islamic Spain & Portugal), from the eighth century to the 1400’s. In the Islamic far west, Andalusian society was different from what existed in the Arabic-Islamic East and far more developed and sophisticated than any civilization Europe had known. During this time period, Al-Andalus was the most materially advanced area of Europe. Ethnic (Arabs, Iberians, North Africans) and religious minorities such as Christian Muwallads and Mozarabs enjoyed a high degree of tolerance and, like the Jews, formed prosperous and erudite communities. Women were, with the exception of those of Baghdad, the envy of even other Arabic-Muslim women. Cordoba was the most splendid city on the European continent with magnificent buildings, gardens, libraries, baths. There was a stable political system that facilitated opulence, education, beautiful homes, well-designed cities and towns, art and scholarship. This course will examine the civilization and culture of Islamic Spain and the contribution of each of the religious groups to its greatness.
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AFST 372 - Arabic Civilization & Culture
Credits: 4
This course aims to give an overview of the Civilization and Culture of the Arab people, starting with the advent of Islam-we will, nevertheless, examine pre-Islamic Arabic societies-and continuing through the present. A selection of texts-print and electronic in English-dealing with and pertaining to different aspects and areas of Arabic life, civilization and culture, will be read and discussed. These texts have been selected with the intent to compare and analyze approaches in those written by Arabic writers and those written by non-Arabic writers. Among the topics to be covered are-but not limited to: The origins of the Arabs; pre-Islamic Arab society; Arab-Islamic society and the Islamic Empire; Arab culture and its contribution to world culture; Baghdad and Cordoba; Arabic Africa; Some causes of decadence and fall of the Arab-Islamic Empire; Western Infiltration and Colonialism (18-20 C); “Independence” and the creation of Nation-States. We will also analyze and discuss modern post-colonial concerns and problems and challenges that the area has confronted in the wake of neo colonialism.
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AFST 376 - African Cultural Traditions
Credits: 4
Course examines African culture traditions through select representative African ethnic groups. It focuses on psychosocial and developmental ritual practices-gestation, naming, puberty, marriage, eldership, funerary and medico-magical rites-undergirding life cycles. The course looks at the viability of some cultural practices like female genital mutilation (clitoridectomy), scarifications and sacrifices for magico-medical rituals, as Africans attempt to re-order their lives in a rapidly changing world. Course offerings varies.
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AFST 379 - Contemporary Art:Afri/Diaspora
Credits: 4
The course explores contemporary visual arts of Africa and the African diaspora in the last three decades. It studies how African and African Diaspora artists and art theorists in Africa, Europe, America and the Caribbean have influenced and interacted with one another in this globalized world of migrations, global co-operations, biennials, and exhibitions. While studying how these interactions have been informed by the cultures and civilizations in the respective regions, the course will highlight the conceptual and methodological issues that are of interest to artists in this expansive tri-dimensional world. Pre/co-requisites: Any introductory Africana course will serve as a prerequisite.
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AFST 380A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380B - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380C - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380F - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380H - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380I - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380L - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380M - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380N - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380R - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380S - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380T - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380V - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 380Z - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 381A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 381B - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 381M - Special Topics
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AFST 382E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 382R - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 383A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 383C - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 383P - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 384E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 386A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 386F - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 387A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 388R - Special Topics
Credits: 2
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AFST 389D - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 389E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 389F - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 389J - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 395 - Internship
Credits: Variable
Exclusively for juniors and seniors who will work with Global Publications Office. Mandatory Pass/Fail. Students who wish to participate in an internship and who have previously been convicted of a felony are advised that they will be asked about their prior criminal history. This may impede your ability to participate in certain internships. Students who have concerns about such matters, or are looking for additional information, are advised to contact the dean’s office of their intended academic program.
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AFST 397 - Independent Study
Credits: Variable
Meets special needs and interests of advanced students on tutorial or seminar basis. It can only be taught by Africana faculty. Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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AFST 400 - Racism in Big Data
Credits: 4
In the Big Data world, data is the new frontier of racism. Citizens require proficiency in Data Science application tools to uncover algorithmic racism and biases that entrench injustice and inequality. This course introduces students to a data visualization application for analyzing trends and patterns and for critically developing strategies to combat racism. Students will learn the fundamental concepts of data visualization in the process of manipulating Open City Data to search for hidden racial biases encoded in the records of hospitals, the courts, city government, police, and prisons. Seniors Only. .
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AFST 410 - AI, Deepfakes, Race & Gender
Credits: 4
Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new frontier of racism and sexism. Big Data, the fodder for data mining, data analytics, and predictive programs, conceal racialized biases and gender inequalities as neutral computational bits and mathematical processes. This course examines algorithmic biases of data mining, facial recognition, predictive risk models, and deepfakes on race (communities of color) and gender in America. It explores the damaging real-life consequences on social justice of the racial and gender biases in ai-neural networks. It considers ways that algorithmic literacy can responsibly combat algorithmic oppression. Seniors only. Must have at least two 300 or 400-level AFST courses.
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AFST 425 - Africa in World History
Credits: 4
This is an advanced seminar for Africana studies majors or minors. It examines Africa in a global context, in early, early modern and modern world history, by reading some of the latest transnational and global historical approaches to the African past and present. Students will explore the historical roots of contemporary issues of trade, politics, international relations, slavery, colonialism and development in Africa and the African diaspora. The goal of the seminar is to relate current events and contemporary geopolitics to their historical antecedents, in order to understand Africa’s changing place in the contemporary global order. No freshmen or sophomores permitted. Prerequisite: AFST 101 and at least one other AFST course.
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AFST 430 - N.African Women Writers & Film
Credits: 4
Course required for the Africana Major/Minor: Women in North Africa have struggled for rights and recognition of their role as full members of society from colonial times to post?colonial present states. Though not encouraged, andsometimes denied, education has allowed the women who got it to speak loudly and denounce wrongs suffered by women in the name of tradition and the religion of Islam through skewed readings and interpretations by the maledominated society. Modern North African women writers and film directors tackle several themes hitherto taboo in Arabic?Islamic societies and question tradition as maintained in those societies to serve the ?male elite? as FatemaMernissi calls it. The themes of recovery of identity, re?description of stereotypes about women and resistance to colonialism and occupation, including the occupation of the women?s bodies, even ?rights within the religion? are unveiled and questioned. These questions are springboards to criteria that may be used to examine representative North African (Maghrebi) women artistic, literary and film production. We will examine how relations of the women with the self and the other are expressed those texts in the light of the contemporaneity and as vehicles of the ever changing culture of that area being affected by the rampant globalism. Restriction: Junior or Senior Standing. Offered regularly.
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AFST 450 - Global Health
Credits: 4
This course is designed to explore the impact of globalization on health while examining the relationships between culture and health promotion/disease prevention issues globally. Students will analyze the cultural, social, economic, political and environmental factors that impact health and development in Non-Western contexts. A multi-disciplinary perspective entailing but not limited to, history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, and public health will be offered by way of reading assignments, didactic instruction, class discussions, and course assignments.
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AFST 462 - Lit. of N. Africa & M. East
Credits: 4
The course will focus on the Arabic literature of North Africa and the Middle East and will provide an overview of the wide range and themes of this literature as presented by the authors whose works we will examine this semester. The course will focus on a century of modern Arabic literature and the development of representation of women, men in their various ascribed roles in Arabic-Islamic societies and how these roles are being challenged by colonialism, post colonialism and Imperialism/globalization. The remarkable experiences the characters go through and the struggles that the writers document to make their voices heard within their respective societies is quite an achievement in its own. A new model of the Arabic person emerged encouraging (albeit timidly) both men and women to liberate themselves, manage their own lives, unravel societal hypocrisies and to do away with things past that restrict their pursuit of happiness and self-realization (e.g., career, social or political movement or, even, new styles of love and life defying convention and social norms). As the West grew more powerful it began launching expeditions to investigate how non-Western societies functioned and how to overcome them and eventually add them to its growing empires. The seminar explores many themes and works by Arabic writers who created new narratives, poetic and visual languages and a new consciousness about the modern Arabic World both in Africa and Asia. Some of the works we will read will examine not only the relationship of the West with the Arabic World, but issues that existed before colonialism and during the difficult birth of the various Arabic “Nation States”. This course is offered in the spring.
NOTE: Students that have taken AFST 362 will not receive credit for AFST 462.
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AFST 463 - Contemporary Ecologies
Credits: 4
Contemporary Ecologies: Imaging Survival offers an introduction to and hands-on experience of ecological aesthetics. Drawing from African and Asian diasporic art, theory, literatures, and the feminist, queer, urban, and virtual perspectives they engender, we will bring analysis and imagination to bear on rising sea levels, tsunami, drought, coral reefs, and expanding cityscapes such as Nairobi and Beijing. Eschewing the lens of pessimism that foresees insurmountable problems and bleak futures for humans and non-humans, especially in the southern hemisphere, we will examine the interconnections of power, landscapes, and mindscapes through engagement with visual, sonic, and multi-media cosmologies of transformation. Offered every Fall.
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AFST 475 - West Meets East in N. Africa
Credits: 4
Orientalist travel accounts grew out of the consciousness of the culture Europe began to develop as unique and separate from other cultures. As well, the growing economic and military powers consolidated a feeling of superiority that would govern Europeans’ attitudes vis-a-vis non-Europeans. It was mainly economic interests that led to the imperialistic enterprises in the Arab-Islamic and African lands. Expeditions by westerners in N. Africa, the first Orient, prior to and during colonialism served as frameworks for orientalists to produce extensive works eroticizing, but often demonizing the Arab-Muslims. This course examines North African and Middle Eastern Orientalist literature and film. Western travel literature and other European and American sources will provide a vehicle to explore the way that economic, geo-political and cultural factors came to inform this historically intense relationship between East and West. Pre-requisites: any 100 or 200 level AFST course or it’s cross listing.
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AFST 480A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480B - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480C - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480F - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480G - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480K - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480L - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480M - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480N - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480P - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480R - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480S - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 480T - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 481A - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 481E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 481M - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 483E - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 485B - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 486G - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 488H - Special Topics
Credits: 4
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AFST 490 - Senior Seminar
Credits: 4
Advanced general survey and analysis of critical problems in Africana studies. Prerequisite: senior standing
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AFST 491 - Practicum In College Teaching
Credits: Variable
Independent study through teaching in particular Africana studies course. Course instructor directs students in preparation of syllabi, other course materials, devising and reading examinations; lecturing and/or leading discussion; academic counseling. May be repeated for a total of no more than eight credits. Credit may not be earned in conjunction with course in which student is currently enrolled. Does not satisfy major or Harpur Distribution requirements. Prerequisite: consent of instructor. Pass/Fail only.
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AFST 495 - Internship Project
Credits: Variable
Internship project under guidance of faculty member, in an institution, agency or program. Written analytical term report of project work required. Prerequisites: prior arrangement with and consent of chosen instructor. Four credits of internship may be counted toward major. Students who wish to participate in an internship and who have previously been convicted of a felony are advised that they will be asked about their prior criminal history. This may impede your ability to participate in certain internships. Students who have concerns about such matters, or are looking for additional information, are advised to contact the dean’s office of their intended academic program.
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AFST 497 - Advanced Independent Study
Credits: Variable
Prerequisite: consent of instructor.
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AFST 499 - AFST Honors Thesis
Credits: Variable
Honors essay for seniors, under supervision of faculty member. Prerequisites: approval must be given by director of undergraduate studies and the faculty member concerned.
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AMS 105 - Daily Life in Greece and Rome
Credits: 4
Explore the daily life of ancient Greeks and Romans by examining aspects such as their economies to their legal systems, theater, religion, athletics, and art. By considering Greece and Rome side by side and placing these varied social and historical aspects within a comparative framework, this course will highlight not only similarities and differences that existed between these civilizations in the ancient world but also make connections to the twenty-first century. This course will not only focus on elites and their political structures but also on the lives of people like artists, bakers, prostitutes, slaves, and gladiators. Offered regularly.
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