Graduate Courses
African-American Studies Concentration Electives
AAAS 501 Regional History:_____
AAAS 502 Directed Language Study:_____
AAAS 503 Directed Language Study:_____
AAAS 504 Directed Language Study:_____
AAAS 505 Directed Language Study:_____
AAAS 510 Comparative Racial and Ethnic Relations (Same as SOC 534/AMS 522)
AAAS 511 The Civil Rights Movement (Same as AMS 696)
AAAS 512 African and Western Cosmologies (3)
AAAS 520 Studies In:_____
AAAS 522 African & African-American Religions
AAAS 523 African-American Culture
AAAS 525 Social History of Black Aging in America
AAAS 527 Popular Culture in Africa
AAAS 534 The Rhetoric of Black Americans (Same as COM 551)
AAAS 550 Seminar
AAAS 557 Cities and Development (Same as GEOG 557)
AAAS 574 Slavery in the New World (Same as HIST 574)
AAAS 584 Black American Literature
AAAS 632 Comparative Black Literature (Same as ENGL 632)
AAAS 690 Investigation and Conference
ANTH 670 Contemporary American Culture
ANTH 512 Ethnohistory:
ANTH 775 Seminar in Cultural Anthropology
AM S 576 Cultural Geography of the United States (Same as GEOG 576)
AM S 579 Geography of American Foodways
AM S 580 American Art
AM S 629 Sociology of Sport (Same as SOC 629)
AM S 694 Directed Readings
AM S 696 Studies In:
AM S 737 Music in America
AM S 805 American Pluralism: Race, Ethnicity and Religion in American Life
COMS 534 Interpersonal Communications in Organizations
COMS 647 Issues in Intercultural Communication
ECON 515 Income Distribution and Inequality
ECON 530 American Economic Development
ECON 534 Economic History of the Caribbean Region
ECON 540 Recent American Economic History
ECON 595 Regional Economics
ECON 675 Introduction to Welfare Economics
ECON 761 Public Sector: Urban and Regional Finance
ECON 866 Selected Problems in American Economic History
ENGL 574 African-American Literature
ENGL 590 Studies In: Black Writing in Kansas (Same as AM S 696, AAAS 520)
ENGL 632 Comparative Black Literature
ENGL 679 American Poetry of the 20 th Century
ENGL 971 Seminar in African-American Literature and Culture
ENGL 974 Seminar in Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora
GEOG 571 Topics in Cultural Geography
GEOG 575 Geography of Population
GEOG 752 Topics in Urban/Economic Geography
GEOG 771 Topics in Cultural Geography
GEOG 772 Problems in Political Geography
GEOG 802 Urban Geographic Information Systems
HAIT 500 Directed Studies in Haitian Language and Literature
HAIT 501 Directed Studies in Haitian Culture
HAIT 700 Investigation and Conference
POLS 513 Power in American Communities
POLS 519 Community Development
POLS 614 Urban Politics
POLS 616 Interest Group Politics
POLS 619 Topics in American Politics:
POLS 623 The Politics of Social Policy
HIST 510 Topics In:
HIST 531 History of American Women: 1879 to Present
HIST 616 Contemporary American, 1841 to Present (Same as AAAS 520)
HIST 631 The Contemporary Afro-American Experience
HIST 651 History of American Business
HIST 696 Seminar In:
HIST 853 Research Seminar: The Atlantic World in the Early Modern Period
HA 707 Directed Readings
HA 712 Directed Museum Study
HWC 600 Biography of the City
HDFL 606 Special Projects in the Community
HDFL 692 Practicum in Community Leadership and Development
HDFL 703 Community Psychology
HDFL 712 Directed Museum Study
MUSC 744 Readings in Jazz and American Popular Music
PHIL 595 Philosophy and Race
REL 504 Millenarian Movements
REL 531 Studies in Christianity
REL 532 Studies in Islam
REL 602 Special Topics in Religion
REL 771 Religious Movements and Social Change
REL 875 Topics in Religion and Society
SOC 522 American Racial and Ethnic Relations
SOC 570 Social Conflict
SOC 571 Collective Behavior
SOC 573 Sociology of Violence
SOC 621 Cross-Cultural Sociology
SOC 626 Religion and Society
SOC 671 Social Movements
TH&F 702 Graduate Seminar in:
TH&F 703 Readings in Dramatic Literature
TH&F 529 Race and the American Theatre (Same as AAAS 585)
WS 560 Race, Gender and Post-Colonial Discourse (Same as AAAS 560)
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African Studies Concentration Electives
AAAS 501 Regional History
AAAS 502 Directed Language Study
AAAS 503 Directed Language Study
AAAS 510 Comparative Racial and Ethnic Relations (Same as SOC 534/AMS 522)
AAAS 512 African and Western Cosmologies
AAAS 520 Revivalism and Reform in Islam (Same as REL 775)
AAAS 520 Studies In:
AAAS 520 Popular Culture of Africa and Latin America (Same as HIST 581)
AAAS 522 African & African-American Religions
AAAS 527 Popular Culture in Africa
AAAS 532 Studies in Islam (Same as REL 532)
AAAS 542 The History of Islam in Africa (Same as REL 535)
AAAS 550 African Social and Political Development
AAAS 551 Environmental Issues in Africa (Same as GEOG 550)
AAAS 553 Geography of African Development (Same as GEOG 553)
AAAS 554 Contemporary Health Issues in Africa (Same as ANTH 545)
AAAS 555 African Film and Video (Same as TH&F 530)
AAAS 560 Race, Gender and Post-Colonial Discourses (Same as WS 560)
AAAS 578 Central African Art (Same as HA 578)
AAAS 590 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid (Same as HIST 599)
AAAS 600 Politics in Africa (Same as POLS 665)
AAAS 602 U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Third World (Same as POLS 670)
AAAS 632 Comparative Black Literature (Same as ENGL 632)
AAAS 676 West African Art (Same as HA 676)
AAAS 677 African Design (Same as HA 677)
AAAS 679 African Expressive Culture (Same as HA 679)
AAAS 680 Introduction to Modern Africa
AAAS 690 Investigation and Conference
AAAS 700 Africa in World Politics
AAAS 715 Seminar in African Art (Same as HA 715)
ECON 587 Economic Development of Africa
ECON 582 Economic Growth and Development
ECON 604 International Trade
ENGL 526 African Literature
ENGL 774 Topics in Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora
ENGL 974 Seminar in Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora
GEOG 771 Topics in Cultural Geography
GEOG 726 Remote Sensing of Environment
GEOG 990 Seminar in Regional Geography
HIST 509 Multinational Corporations (Same as AAAS 520)
HIST 510 Topics in African History
HIST 561 World Natural Resources Use in the 19 th and 20 th Centuries
HIST 574 Slavery in the New World (Same as AAAS 574)
HIST 681 Topics in Third World History:
HIST 582 Nationalism and Revolution in the Third World
HIST 600 West African History
HIST 800 Readings in: West African History
JOUR 502 International Journalism
LING 791 Topics in Linguistics
MUSC 560 Music in World Cultures
PHIL 595 Philosophy and Race
POLS 661 Politics of the Middle East (Same as
AAAS 520)
POLS 689 Topics in International Relations
POLS 850 Comparative Politics
REL 602 Ancient Egyptian Culture and Religion
REL 775 Revivalism and Reform in Islam (Same as AAAS 520)
SOC 522 American Racial and Ethnic Relations
SOC 531 Third World Social Change
SOC 533 Industrialization in Developing Nations
SOC 535 Women of the Third World
TH&F 702 Graduate Seminar in:
TH&F 826 Seminar in African Theatre
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Common Requirements for the African and African-American Concentrations
AAAS 801 Introduction to Africana Studies (3)
AAAS 802 Research Methods in Africana Studies (3)
AAAS 803 Seminar in Africana Studies (3)
*AAAS 899 Thesis (6)
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