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Course Descriptions
Core Course Description
AFR 200. Introduction to Africana Studies (4) (GEN. ED. #10)
Rather than teaching the history and culture of Africa or communities in the African diaspora, “Introduction to Africana Studies” aims to provide students in the Africana studies minor with key theories, approaches, and critical lenses that they may use in ensuing coursework and research in the Africana minor program. This reading- and writing-intensive course covers such topics as: basic geographical and demographic information about the continent of Africa and the African diaspora; the history of Africana studies in academe; theories that embrace the view that there are many Black experiences, rather than one overarching worldview; approaches toward the examination of Black identities within the context of gender, race, sexuality, and class; and select, exemplary humanistic/social scientific research by pioneering scholars in Africana studies.
100- AND 200-Level Courses By Theme
| History | |
| HIS/PSC 259 | Africa: Past and Present |
| HIS 260 | Civil War and Reconstruction: 1850-1876 |
| MUS 109 | History of Jazz |
| Politics | |
| IIS 220 | Understanding Inequality |
| PCE 120 | Community Service Agencies: Building a Just and Peaceful World |
| PCE 148 | Nonviolence in America |
| Cultural and Social Evidence | |
| DAN 272Y | History and Performance of Brazilian Dance |
| DAN 272Y | The Arts and Culture of West Africa |
| DAN/MUS 146 | Goucher African Drum and Dance Ensemble |
| ENG 249 | Legacy of Slavery |
| ENG 275 | Literature of the Harlem Renaissance |
| ENG 285 | Between Two Worlds: Post-Colonial Literature |
| MUS 149 | Goucher Jazz Ensemble |
| MUS 152 | Jazz Theory |
| PHL 201 | Aesthetics |
| PSC 271 | Civil Rights in the American Constitutional System |
| RLG 207 | Islamic Thought |
| RLG 209 | African Religious Thought |
| RLG 236 | Womanist Theology |
| RLG 237 | Black Theology I |
| RLG 240 | Blues Literature: Race, Sex and God |
| RLG 274 | Liberation Theology |
| PSC 271 | Civil Rights in the American Constitutional System |
| SOC 220 | Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations |
| WS 221 | Representations of Female Identity: Post-Colonial Perspectives |
| WS 224 | Is There Life beyond the Looking Glass? Gender, Identity, and Race in Caribbean Culture |
| WS 226 | Women, Peace, and Protest |
| WS 230 | Contemporary Feminisms: Diverse Voices Expressive Discourses |
300-Level Courses or Higher
| ANT 392 | Seminar: Selected Problems in Anthropology (Slavery, Insurrections, and Ideas Conspire in America: Haitian Revolution to Watts Resolution) |
| ENG 372 | Seminar in African-American Literature |
| ENG 400 | Advanced Independent Studies |
| FR 351 | Francophone Literature of Western Africa |
| HIS/PSC 359 | Seminar on African Politics and Culture |
| HIS 320 | Special Topics: African Americans in Slavery and Freedom Before the Civil War (only when this topic is offered) |
| HIS 400 | Independent Work in History |
| PCE 399 | Independent Work |
| RLG 355 | Black Theology II |
| RLG 238/AMS 238 | Religion and Race in America |
| RLG 399 | Advanced Independent Work |
| SP 345 | Special Topics in Latin-American Literature: The African Experience in the Hispanic Americas (only when this topic is offered) |
| WS 320 | International Feminist Theory and Women’s Activism |