This cluster presents interdisciplinary approaches to the study of the African continent and its peoples, their complexity and diversity. It explores problems and themes that are cultural, historical, political, and geographical, and that address fundamental issues in the construction and expression of identity and knowledge.
Cluster Coordinator: Kofi Agorsah
Office: 308 NH
Phone: 725-5080
E-mail: agorsahe@pdx.edu
This course will explore changing disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives on the study of the African continent and its peoples. The course examines how an understanding of the African experience, far from being exotic or distant, reaches to the core of academic struggle and intellectual debate.
This SINQ leads to the African Studies Cluster.
ANTH 319U Traditional Cultures of Africas (Course Proposal)
ANTH 362U African Prehistory (Course Proposal)
ArH 426U African Art (Course Proposal)
BST 305U African History Before 1800 (Course Proposal)
BST 306U African History Since 1800 (Course Proposal)
BST 319U Traditional Cultures of Africas (Course Proposal)
BST 362U African Prehistory (Course Proposal)
BST 351U African American Literature I (Course Proposal)
BST 399U African Music and Festivals
BST 406U Caribbean Overseas Program
BST 414U Racism
BST 420U Caribbean Literature
BST 422U African Fiction
BST 424U African-American/African Culture in Cinema
BST 425U Black Cinema in the 1970’s
BST 426U Contemporary African-American Cinema
BST 427U African/American Films and Film Makers
BST 440U Caribbean Studies (Course Proposal)
BST 450U Topics: Spanish Carribean
BST 450U Topics: Caribbean Architecture
BST 450U Topics in African/Caribbean History & Culture
BST 450U Topics: Rural and Urban Africa
BST 450U Ten Doc African Dias
BST 450U Immigration Issues
BST 467U African Development Issues
BST 470U African Art
ENG 420U Caribbean Literature
ENG 421U African Fiction
FL 399U Topics in East African Culture: Provers, Riddles, and Oral Narratives (Course Proposal)
GEOG 363U Geography of Africa (Course Proposal)
HST 312U African History Before 1800
HST 313U African History Since 1800
HUM 399U African Diasporan Dance in the Americas (Course Proposal)
HUM 399U Festival Dance in the Africa Diaspora (Course Proposal)
INTL 399U African History Since 1800 (Course Proposal)
INTL 399U Traditional Cultures of Africas
INTL 399U African History Before 1800 (Course Proposal)
INTL 410U African Development Issues
INTL 410U Caribbean Literature
INTL 410U African Art
MUS 374U World Music (African)
