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Department of African American & African Studies
810 Social Science Building
267 19th Ave South
Minneapolis, MN 55455

Phone: 612-624-9847
E-mail: afroam@umn.edu

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University Catalogs: Twin Cities Courses
Use this resource for a list of all courses taught in African American and African Studies (course designator: AFRO), Arabic language and culture (course designator: ARAB), Swahili language and culture (course designator: SWAH), and Hausa language and culture (course designator: HAUS). Not all courses will be taught in a given semester.

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Fall 2009 Courses

  • AFRO 1012 - Black Worlds in Global Perspective: Challenges and Changes
  • AFRO 1021 - Introduction to Africa
  • AFRO 1201 - Racial Formation and Transformation in the United States
  • AFRO 1902 - Freshman Seminar: Your Television Will Be Colorized: Black TV Comics' Riffs on Race
  • AFRO 3001 - West African History: Early Times to 1800
  • AFRO 3141 - Africa
  • AFRO 3204 - History of South Africa to 1910
  • AFRO 3251W - Sociological Perspectives on Race, Class, and Gender
  • AFRO 3301 - The Music of Black Americans
  • AFRO 3431 - Early Africa and Its Global Connections
  • AFRO 3592W - Introduction to Black Women Writers in the United States
  • AFRO 3597W - Introduction to African American Literature and Culture I
  • AFRO 3601W - Introduction to African Literature
  • AFRO 3864 - African American History: 1619 to 1865
  • AFRO 3866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984
  • AFRO 4105 - Ways of Knowing in Africa and the African Diaspora
  • AFRO 4593 - The African American Novel
  • AFRO 4991W - Thesis Research and Writing
  • AFRO 5103 - African History from the Perspective of the African Diaspora
  • AFRO 5866 - The Civil Rights and Black Power Movement, 1954-1984
  • AFRO 5910 - Topics in African American and African Studies