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								3.00 Credits 
								Topical seminar with topics changing in different semesters. Examination of particular ideas, developments, and issues of relevance to Africa and the African diaspora. Topics in different semesters might include detailed examination of justice and ethnicity, politics and ethnicity, comparative slave systems, slave narratives, or colonial rule in Africa and the Caribbean. P: So. stdg.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
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								Sample of representative Francophone African literature. Nature and functions of this literature, relation between it and society. Impact of non-Western cultural context on Western literary genres.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
								3.00 Credits 
								Introduction to politics of sub-Saharan Africa. Covers traditional African cultures, societies and polities; independence movements; and post-colonial politics. Discusses political parties, military interventionism, ethnic conflict, development policy and democratic reform. P: So. stdg.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
								3.00 Credits 
								Explores gender, ethnic, and cultural factors that influence the beliefs, values, behaviors, and experiences of individuals. Provides a fundamental understanding of one's own culture and behavior through exploration of a variety of cultures. P: PSY 111 or PSY 112.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
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								Explores gender, ethnic, and cultural factors that influence the beliefs, values, behaviors, and experiences of individuals. Provides a fundamental understanding of one's own culture and behavior through exploration of a variety of cultures. P: PSY 111 or PSY 112.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
								3.00 Credits 
								Topical seminar with topics changing in different semesters. Examination of particular areas of film and popular culture. Topics in different semesters might include detailed examination of a film genre (e.g., the western, science fiction, detective films), or film and culture studies (e.g., women and film; film and developing nations). May be repeated for credit to a limit of six hours.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
								3.00 Credits 
								An examination of the idea and reality of race during key phases of U.S. history, with an emphasis on the contemporary situation. To understand the multiple meanings and experiences of race, the course draws on sources form science, literature, law, and philosophy.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
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								Examination of the social institutions of black Africa; the roles and meaning of the "tribe", ethnicity and the family. P: So. stdg.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
								3.00 Credits 
								History of Africa south of the Sahara and west of the Cameroons Highlands, African cultural traditions, contact with Islam and the West, the State building, the European invasions, the colonial period, and reemergent states. P: So. stdg.
 
							
						
						
							
								 
									
								3.00 Credits 
								History of Africa south of the Sahara and west of the Cameroons Highlands, African cultural traditions, contact with Islam and the West, the State building, the European invasions, the colonial period, and reemergent states. P: So. stdg.
 
							
						 
				
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