Undergraduate Courses

Introduction to meaning, origin, and characteristics of African religion, focusing on the approaches and challenges in studying African religion.

Introduction to meaning, origin, and characteristics of African religion, focusing on the approaches and challenges in studying African religion.

Study of terminologies and basic beliefs of African religions, dwelling on African concepts of the Supreme Being, divinities, spirits, ancestors, and magic and medicine.

Study of terminologies and basic beliefs of African religions, dwelling on African concepts of the Supreme Being, divinities, spirits, ancestors, and magic and medicine.

Continuation of the language, including grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures. Emphasis on the ability to engage in reasonable fluent discourse in Amharic and a comprehensive knowledge of formal grammar, and the ability to read Amharic with a high level of complex grammatical structures…

Continuation of the language, including grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures. Emphasis on the ability to engage in reasonable fluent discourse in Amharic and a comprehensive knowledge of formal grammar, and the ability to read Amharic with a high level of complex grammatical structures…

A broad introduction to the continent's geography, history, and current events.

A broad introduction to the continent's geography, history, and current events.

A broad introduction to the continent's geography, history, and current events.

A broad introduction to the continent's geography, history, and current events.

A broad introduction to the continent's geography, history, and current events.

The literature of twentieth-century Africa in translation with emphasis on the African novel.

The literature of twentieth-century Africa in translation with emphasis on the African novel.

African concepts of God in names, attributes, status, monotheism, human origin, function of soul, human destiny, rites of passage, and predestination.

Offered every year.

African concepts of God in names, attributes, status, monotheism, human origin, function of soul, human destiny, rites of passage, and predestination.

Offered every year.

This class will  learn an African language and the culture of Wolof. Wolof is a language spoken in Senegal, Gambia and Mauritania. It is the Lingua Franca in Senegal and an important trade language in West Africa. It is one of the Niger-Congo language that is not tonal; Senegal is…

Readings and discussions of current developments in African studies carried out as a contract between an individual student and an appropriate instructor.

The impacts of various globalization issues on indigenous cultures in Africa. Students will research the issues and do in- class presentations followed by brief summaries of their research. Students will write a final paper relating one globalization issue to its impact on one or more indigenous…

The course will survey some of the major areas of theatre activity, as well as provide a general history of African theatre and performance. Playwrights well known in the West, such as Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa thiong'o, Femi Osofisan, and others will be discussed, primarily within the context of…

The course will survey some of the major areas of theatre activity, as well as provide a general history of African theatre and performance. Playwrights well known in the West, such as Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa thiong'o, Femi Osofisan, and others will be discussed, primarily within the context of…

Diasporic movement, sustainability, modifications, syncretic tendencies of African Derived Religions in the Americas, especially Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and North America.

Diasporic movement, sustainability, modifications, syncretic tendencies of African Derived Religions in the Americas, especially Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and North America.

Diasporic movement, sustainability, modifications, syncretic tendencies of African Derived Religions in the Americas, especially Brazil, Cuba, Haiti, and North America.

Examination of African doctrines, death, muses of death, categories of death, rites, final judgment, reincarnation, and the ancestral cult.

Examination of African doctrines, death, muses of death, categories of death, rites, final judgment, reincarnation, and the ancestral cult.

Analysis of international development programs, stressing the developing world's perspective. Study of issues affecting international cooperation, agricultural development and sustainability, technology transfer, and extension education.

Analysis of international development programs, stressing the developing world's perspective. Study of issues affecting international cooperation, agricultural development and sustainability, technology transfer, and extension education.

Analysis of international development programs, stressing the developing world's perspective. Study of issues affecting international cooperation, agricultural development and sustainability, technology transfer, and extension education.