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AFST 101
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Introduction to Africana Studies
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An interdisciplinary and thematic approach to the African diaspora throughout the Americas, including its motivations, dimensions, consequences, and the importance of its study. Beginning with the encounters between Africans and the Portuguese in the...
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AFST 201
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The Rumors of War Seminar
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The history of slavery and colonization with attention to the world before and after 1492. The course uses this approach to closely examine the history of the land of UR within a broader context of the 1492 moment, from the earliest days of the land...
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AFST 301
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Seminar in Africana Studies
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Surveys multidisciplinary approaches to Africana Studies, with specific emphasis on the wide range of theories and methods employed by scholars in the field.
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AFST 400
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The W.E.B. Du Bois Senior Seminar
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In depth study of the work and life of one major scholar in the field (such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Angela Davis, Walter Rodney, Sylvia Wynter, C.L.R. James, Kwame Nkrumah, etc.). Serves as the main research capstone of the major, providing a foundational...
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