Director:
Associate Professor Pearl Robinson, Political Science
Advising Coordinator:
Associate Professor Rosalind Shaw,
Anthropology
The Africa in the New World (ANW)
Interdisciplinary Minor encourages students to explore Africa, the African
Diaspora in the Americas, and global Africa through a range of perspectives.
Particular emphasis is given to three intellectual currents: Diaspora studies,
Identity construction, and Globalization. ANW sponsors an annual Africa-Diaspora
lecture series to showcase these themes.
Requirements
To fulfill the ANW Minor, students must choose five courses from at least
three departments or programs of the university, bringing to bear the knowledge
and perspectives of various disciplines on a single subject. In addition to the
five courses, a student is required to complete an appropriate project, such as
a thesis, an oral presentation, or a performance, which integrates the knowledge
and methodologies of the disciplines involved and must include a written
analysis. The integrative project will be given one-half or one course credit
under CIS 90-91 designations and will receive a letter grade.
Students interested in a Major concentration may propose an ANW Plan of Study in
African Studies, African-American Studies, or African Diaspora Studies. PLEASE
NOTE:
Courses cannot count for both the ANW Interdisciplinary Minor and the
African/African American Culture option.
The courses listed below are among those regularly offered which count toward
this minor. Courses listed with an asterisk (*) are not centrally concerned with
African, African American, or African Diaspora Studies. Students who wish to
count these courses for the ANW minor must consult with the course professor
first, and must agree to focus all independent work on appropriate ANW topics.
American Studies 12 Race in America
American Studies 13 Viewing African-American Dance: Perspectives from Art
and Science (Cross-listed as Dance 70)
American Studies 81-01 Constructions of Whiteness
American Studies 140-01 Imagining Black Freedom in Haiti and the Americas
American Studies 192H Literature and Film of the Haitian Diaspora
*Anthropology 50 Freshman Seminar: Armies of the Young
*Anthropology 118 Soph. Sem:Performance and Politics
Anthropology 149C/Soc188B Music, Blackness, Caribbean Latinos
Anthropology 187 Place, Race, Memory: The West Medford Afro-American
Remembrance Project
Art History 4/Anthropology 42 Introduction to the Arts of Africa
Art History 6/ Anthropology 149D The Royal Arts of Africa
Art History 70/170 Contemporary Arts in Africa
Art History 73/173 Blackness: Digesting Difference in African
American Art
Art History 171/Anthropology 149-05 Translocal to Transnational: The
career of Yoruba art and artists
Art History 191A Seminar: An Introduction to the Study of African Art
*Biology 107WW Contemporary Biosocial Problems in America
*Biology 107 Humanitarian Policy and Public Health *Civil Engineering and
Environment 137 Public Health
*Community Health 108/Sociology 108 Epidemics: Plagues, Peoples, and
Politics
*Community Health 188-02 Politics of Health Disparities
*Comparative Religion 192-05 Islam and Modernity Dance 61 West
African Ewe Dances
Dance 62 West African Dagomba Dances
Dance 70 Viewing African-American Dance (Cross-listed as American Studies
11B)
Dance 92 Dance Fusion: African Inspirations
*Economics 30 Environmental Economics and Policy
*Economics 35 Economic Development
*Economics 36 Macro Analysis of Development
*Economics 60 International Economics
*Economics 62 Economics of International Migration
*Economics 139 Transition Economics
*Economics 161 International Trade
English 2 African American Presence
English 20 Black World Literature
English 37 Twentieth-Century African-American Literature
English 45 Non-Western Women Writers
*English 91B Sisters, Daughters, Mothers
*English 91C Representing Honor: Middle Passage & American Slavery
English 91D Screening for Race
English 92E The African-American Canon
English 146 African-American Women Writers
English 147 The African-American Novel
English 148 The American Slave Narrative
*English 153 American Realism
English 178 African-American Criticism and Theory
*English 191A Different Voices: Multicultural America Since 1860
English 161 Memory for Forgetting
English 191H Toni Morrison French 44 African Theatre (in English)
*French 46 Masterpieces of Caribbean Literature (in English)
French 47 Africa in Text and Film
French 48 French African Literature (in English)
French 179 French African Literature (in French)
French 181 French African Theatre (in French)
*French 191B Diversity and Cultural Identity in the Francophone World
French 192 MAryse Conde: Crossing Boundaries
History 1WW African Historiography, Theory & Research Methods
History 71 Historical Perspectives on Contemporary Crises in Africa
History 70 Africa to the Nineteenth Century
History 71 Africa since the Nineteenth Century
History 73XX Special Topics: Africa
History 95 The African American in United States History to 1865
History 96 The African American in United States History since 1865
History 150 Race, Class, and Power in Southern Africa
History 151 Africa and the African Diaspora to the Americas
*History 171 The American South since 1865
History 185 Research Seminar in African History
History 195 Special Topics in African History
Music 5 Musical Elements of Jazz Improvisation
Music 11 African-American Music
Music 12 Blues
Music 13 History of Rock 'n' Roll
Music 28/128 The Music of Africa
Music 40 History of Jazz
Music 48 Jazz Theory
Music 64 Gospel Choir
Music 65, 66 Kiniwe African Music Ensemble
Music 69 Big Band
Music 70 Jazz Improvisation Ensemble
Music 100 West African Music Cultures
*Music 111 Jazz Composition and Arranging
Music 195 Hip-Hop in American Culture
*Philosophy 125 Racism and Social Inequality
Political Science 76 Soph Sem: Race and Class in American Politics
*Political Science 90R Seminar: Race, Prejudice, and Politics
*Political Science 105 Constitutional Law
*Political Science 106 Civil Liberties
Political Science 108 African-American Politics
*Political Science 113 Sem: Nonprofits and Civil Society
Political Science 117 Politics of the American South
Political Science 129 African Politics
Political Science 130 Seminar: African Political Economy
Political Science 170 Politics and Global Africa
*Political Science 163 Seminar: Ethnicity and American Foreign Policy
Political Science 188-01 Regionalism in African International Relations
Psychology 51 Black Psychology
Sociology 110 Racial and Ethnic Minorities
Sociology 130 Class, Race, and Gender Inequalities
Sociology 149A People on the Move: Tourists, Refugees, and Migrant
Workers
*Sociology 130 Wealth, Poverty, and Inequality
*Sociology 186 Seminar: International Health Policy
*Sociology 188A Seminar: Children of Immigrants and Immigrant Children
*Sociology 188 From Hip-Hop to Reggaeton: New Directions in Latino
Youth Cultures
Spanish 156 Afro-Hispanic Literature (in Spanish)
Swahili 1 Elementary Swahili I
Swahili 2 Swahili II
Swahili 3 Swahili III
Women's Studies 72 Introduction to Women's Studies
World Literature 122 South African Writers
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