AFCS - Africana Studies |
2025-2026 UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES CATALOG
Effective 1 June 2025 through 31 May 2026
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Course Descriptions
| Global Citizenship Program Knowledge Areas听听(....) |
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| ARTS | Arts Appreciation |
| GLBL | Global Understanding |
| PNW | Physical & Natural World |
| QL | Quantitative Literacy |
| ROC | Roots of Cultures |
| SSHB | Social Systems & Human Behavior |
| Global Citizenship Program Skill Areas (....) |
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| CRI | Critical Thinking |
| ETH | Ethical Reasoning |
| INTC | Intercultural Competence |
| OCOM | Oral Communication |
| WCOM | Written Communication |
| ** Course fulfills two skill areas | |
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AFCS 1000 Introduction to Africana Studies (3)
Provides a broad overview of the field of Africana studies -- its unique content, core concepts and perspectives, and some major trends that have shaped and continue to shape the field.听This is a survey course designed to introduce students to the field of Africana studies. Its main focus will center on the substantive content of the field, a critical study of Africa and peoples of African origin in Africa and abroad. This focus will include examining the major theoretical, methodological and epistemological questions defining the continued evolution of Africana studies. Both classic and modern studies and texts in the field of Africana studies will be covered in order to give students a grounding in the intellectual history of the field. GCP Coding: (ROC) (INTC)
AFCS 1500 Survey of African History (3)
Provides an historical survey, continent wide in scope, of the experiences of Africa and its people from pre-historic times to the present.
AFCS 2200 Globalization and Contemporary Africa (3)
This is an interdisciplinary course designed to study the various dimensions by which globalization impacts the challenges and opportunities facing the African continent in its struggle to overcome the burden of underdevelopment. This course will critically