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Course Descriptions
Core Course Description
AFR 200. Introduction to Africana Studies (3)
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.
Spring semester. Variable Instruction.
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
RLG 207. Islamic Thought
RLG 209. African Religious Thought
RLG 236. Womanist Theology
RLG 237. Black Theology I
RLG 274. Liberation Theology
PSC 271. Civil Rights in the American Constitutional System
SOC 220. Comparative Race and Ethnic Relations
PHL 201. Aesthetics
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
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
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