An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the histories, cultures, and experiences of global people of African descent.

Explores the historical and contemporary treatment of race in the United States by the courts and the legislature and the construction of race as a concept and position of identity through the law.

(Also offered as ENGL 366) This is the second phase of a three-part journey through the African-American experience in search of humanity and peace. The vehicle is post-slavery books written by and about African-American people. Issues raised and the characters in the books provide the occasion for in-depth discussion of inhumanity, protests, self definition, race relationships, liberalism, etc.

Individual research into an area proposed by the student and conducted under the direction of a faculty member.

A study of European education and its psychological, sociological and cultural impact on traditional African society. {Fall, Spring}

Special topic courses in specialized areas of African-American Studies. African-American Literature; Sociopolitics: Africa; Politics of Southern Africa; Black Books III, Education and African-American Education and Free Society. {Fall, Spring}

Explorations of a variety of advanced topics in Africana Studies.