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Courses in Black Studies
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0910F
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Spring 2023
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Curriculum
BLST-111 Intro to Black Studies
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
BLST-122 Music, Religion, and Ritual in Africa
Monika Brodnicka
(Section 01)
BLST-123 Survey of African Art
Rowland O. Abiodun
(Section 01)
Henry J. Drewal
(Section 01)
BLST-152 Foundations of African American Literature
Frank Leon Roberts
(Section 01)
BLST-193 The Postcolonial City
Dwight A. Carey
(Section 01)
BLST-195 Black Existentialism
Cheikh A. Thiam
(Section 01)
BLST-200 Critical Debates in Black Studies
Jared Loggins
(Section 01)
BLST-208 Afr Migratns & Globaliz
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 01)
BLST-210 Christianity and Islam in Africa
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 01)
BLST-215 Music and Poetry of the African Diaspora
Carol Y. Bailey
(Section 01)
BLST-229 African-American Political Thought
Jared Loggins
(Section 01)
BLST-231 Pioneers: Reclaiming the History of Black Presence in the American Theater
Raffeal A. Sears
(Section 01)
BLST-254 African Literature as Philosophy
Cheikh A. Thiam
(Section 01)
BLST-278 Black History of Brazil, 1500-1888
Russell Lohse
(Section 01)
BLST-294 Black Europe
Khary O. Polk
(Section 01)
BLST-302 Global Women's Literature
Krupa Shandilya
(Section 01)
BLST-303 The Revolution Will Be Dramatized: Contemporary African American Drama
Frank Leon Roberts
(Section 01)
BLST-315 Myth, Ritual and Iconography in West Africa
Rowland O. Abiodun
(Section 01)
BLST-321 Riot and Rebellion in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
BLST-322 South African History
Sean Redding
(Section 01)
BLST-330 Caribbean Literature in the Age of Globalization
Carol Y. Bailey
(Section 01)
BLST-336 The Social Construction of Whiteness
Ron Lembo
(Section 01)
BLST-344 Jazz History After 1945: Experimentalism, Pluralism, and Traditionalism
Jason Robinson
(Section 01)
BLST-347 Race, Sex, and Gender in the U.S. Military
Khary O. Polk
(Section 01)
BLST-354 Contemporary Francophone African Womxn Writers
Monika Brodnicka
(Section 01.)
BLST-490 Special Topics
TBA (Section 01)
Khary O. Polk
(Section 02)
BLST-499 Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Russell Lohse
(Section 02)
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 03)
BLST-499D Senior Departmental Honors
TBA (Section 01)
Carol Y. Bailey
(Section 02)
Stefan Bradley
(Section 03)
Cheikh A. Thiam
(Section 04)
Olufemi O. Vaughan
(Section 05)
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