African Studies Core Courses are offered by many departments in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences and in Professional Schools. To check availability of these courses for the next semester, please see the KU Online Timetable of Classes. Many courses listed here may be offered only once a year or less frequently.
A listing for Fall 2009 will be coming soon!
KASC identifies courses by one, two, or more numbers, which is typical for interdisciplinary subject areas. The student may enroll in any one of these course numbers. Additional information about cross-listed courses may be available from the other listing department, as well. We cannot be certain that all courses that happen to be cross-listed are shown as such below, so please contact us at (785)864-3745 to check on the status of an individual course.
The listing below may not be exhaustive, although the KASC and the AAAS strive
to identify all Africa-related courses across the university. Faculty in departments
and schools sometimes offer seminars, courses and tutorials on a one-time basis, on special topics of interest to them.
To know for sure what will be offered, students may want to contact Africanist members of the faculty from our list on the Faculty link. They will be happy to discuss their planned course offerings for the next several semesters with you.
Notice: The names in parentheses after certain courses indicate the particular professor who teaches the course with African focus. Other instructors may not focus on Africa, and therefore the course would not count as an African Studies Core Course. Please check with us to find out if a course taught by a different instructor than the one listed will qualify. If no name is listed, the course is always taught with an African focus.
Introductory Courses: 100-200's
AAAS 103 Introduction to Africa
AAAS 105/HIST 104 Introduction to African History
AAAS 115 Introduction to African History, Hnr
ANTH 100 General Anthropology (Gray)
COMS 264 Intercultural Communications (Asuncion-Lande)
HIST 160/AAAS 360 Introduction to West African History
ENGL 326/AAAS 332 Introduction to African Literature
REL 107 Living Religions of the West (Rausch)
TH&F/AAAS 334 Introduction to African Dance Theatre
Disciplinary Introductions: 300's
AAAS 300 African Traditional Religion and Thought
AAAS 307 Modern African History, Honors
AAAS 315 Women and Islam
AAAS 320 Topics in African Studies
AAAS 334 Intro to African Dance Theatre
AAAS 335 Intro to Southern African Literature
ANTH 342 Intro to Human Nutrition (Gray)
ANTH 350 Human Adaptation (Gray)
ANTH 358 Anthropology of Sex, Hnr (Gray)
ANTH 390 Peoples of Africa
CLSX 375 Middle Egyptian
GEOG 350/AAAS 350 Physical Geography of Africa
GEOG 351/AAAS 351 Africa's Human Geographies
HIST 300/AAAS 305 Modern African History
HIST 369 Colonialism & Revolution in the Third World, Hnr (Rosenthal)
HA 315 Prehistory of Art
HA 376/AAAS 376 West African Art
LING 370/AAAS 370 Intro to Languages of Africa
MUSC 307 Music of Africa and the Middle East
REL 350/AAAS 349 Studies in Islam
THF 302 Undergrad Seminar in...Post-Colonial Theater (Ajayi-Soyinka)
THF 326/AAAS 355 African Theatre and Drama
WS 330/AAAS 330 Women in Contemporary African Literature
Upper Level Undergraduate, Disciplinary: 400-500's
AAAS 400 Readings
AAAS 433 Islamic Literature
AAAS 434 African Women Writers
AAAS 435 Muslim Women's Autobiography
AAAS 460 Topics and Problems in African Studies
AAAS 496 Field Experience
AAAS 520 Topics in African Studies
AAAS 527 Popular Culture in Africa
AAAS 545 Unveiling the Veil
AAAS 550 Senior Seminar
AAAS 555 African Film and Video
AAAS 557 Cities and Development
AAAS 598 Sexuality and Gender in African History
ANTH 449 Fieldwork in Human Biology (Gray)
ANTH 520 Kongo Transatlantic
ANTH 542 Biology of Human Nutrition (Gray)
ANTH 545/AAAS 554 Contemporary Health Issues in Africa
ANTH 549 Human Paleontology (Frayer)
ANTH 461/761 Introduction to Medical Anthropology (Janzen)
BUS 449/IBUS 301 Business, Culture, and Society: Africa
COMS 547 Communication and Culture (Asuncion-Lande)
ECON 587 Economic Development of Africa
FREN 432/AAAS 432 Francophone African Literature
GEOG 550 Environmental Issues in Africa
GEOG 553/AAAS 553 Geography of African Development
HIST 510 Topics in...African History
HIST 582 Nation and Revolution in 3rd World Hon (Rosenthal)
HIST 599/AAAS 590 Rise and Fall of Apartheid
HA 578/AAAS 578 Central African Art
LING 470/AAAS 470 Language and Society in Africa
LING 543/AAAS 543 Language and Culture in Arabic-speaking Communities
LING 575 The Structure of...Arabic
MUSC 560 Music in World Cultures (Henry)
REL 515 Early Christian Literature in Coptic
REL 535 History of Islam in Africa
THF 530/AAAS 555 African Film and Video
WS 560/AAAS 560 Race, Gender, and Postcolonialism (Ajayi-Soyinka)
Upper Level UG, Beginning Graduate: 600's and Up
AAAS 650 Sufism
AAAS 657 Gender in Islam and Society
AAAS 676 West African Art
AAAS 677 African Design
AAAS 680 Introduction to Modern Africa
AAAS 690 Investigation and Conference
AAAS 695 Honors Project
AAAS 700 Africa in World Politics
ANTH 762 Human Growth and Development (Gray)
ANTH 876 Advanced Medical Anthropology
BUS 810 International Business (Chi)
COMS 667 Interpersonal Communication in Multinational Orgs (Asuncion-Lande)
ECON 605 International Finance (Asiedu)
HIST 600 West African History
HIST 800 Readings in West African History
HIST 801 History of Africa from a Global Perspective
HA 715 Seminar in African Art
POLS 610 Politics of the Middle East
POLS 660 The Politics and Problems of Developing Countries
POLS 665/AAAS 600 Politics in Africa
POLS 669 Topics in Comparative Politics: Democratization
REL 602 Special Topics...Women in Islam
REL 669 Human Conflict and Peace (Shelton)
REL 667 Religious Perspectives on War and Peace (Shelton)
WS 797 Directed Study in Women and African Literature
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