Courses
African Studies Courses and Requirements
All courses offered by the Department of Africana Studies satisfy Harpur College of Arts and Sciences requirements. A cross-disciplinary major (BA program), a minor in African Studies and a concentration in Africana Studies are available.
Please refer to the Spring or Fall Schedule for the list of courses being offered that semester. Then, refer to the list below as it provides printable syllabi for all Africana Studies courses and cross-listed courses*:
- AFST 101: Introduction to Africana Studies
- AFST 180D: Introduction to African Art
- AFST 180E: Introduction to African Religion
- AFST 180R: Music Cultures of Africa, Caribbean and Latin America
- AFST 188B: African Music Ensemble
- AFST 212: African Intellectual Traditions
- AFST 235: Muslim Peoples
- AFST 280D: Youth and Popular Culture in North Africa
- AFST 280U: Feminist & Diasporic Performance Art
- AFST 281K: Afro-Brazilian & Caribbean Religions
- AFST 283A: Introduction to African History
- AFST 283F: Islamic Cultures in Africa
- AFST 283G: West African History to 1800
- AFST 284C: Black Nationalism
- AFST 287F: Contemporary African & African American Arts
- AFST 317: African Women and Feminism
- AFST 373: The African Novel
- AFST 378: African Metaphysics
- AFST 380A: Music Traditions of Africa & Diaspora
- AFST 380C: Introduction to Arabic Civilization and Culture
- AFST 380E: The World and the 1960's
- AFST 380I: Literature of North Africa and the Middle East
- AFST 380P: Nationalism & Social Movement in Colonial Africa
- AFST 380R: Muslims, Christians and Jews in Islamic Spain: The Cohabitation of Cultures
- AFST 381A: Arab Cinema
- AFST 381G: Sociology of Colonialism
- AFST 382: Law and Society
- AFST 383A: Topics in North African History
- AFST 384E: Economic Development in Africa
- AFST 385E: African American Heritage in Poetry & Jazz
- AFST 386A: The Making of the African Diaspora
- AFST 386F: Issues in Writings and Films by North African and Middle Eastern Women
- AFST 387A: Contemporary Art: Africa/Diaspora
- AFST 389E: Black Child & Adolescent Development
- AFST 480A: 21st Century Longings in Transit
- AFST 480B: Haunting, Memory, Migrations for Tomorrows
- AFST 480M: Black Movements
- AFST 480S: Feminist and Diasporic Performance Art
*Syllabi are updated, the latest, by the start of each semester. Syllabi that are not updated for that semester will only give you an idea of the course and the professor reserves the right to modify it.
