Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

ASRC 1120

This course brings together students, faculty, and invited guests to discuss the art of leadership and the opportunities and challenges women in leadership roles have encountered in their careers and how ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: DSOC 1120MUSIC 1520

  • 1 Credit S/U NoAud

  • 17310 ASRC 1120   LEC 001

  • This is a Learning Where You Live course.

ASRC 1201

This two-course sequence assumes no previous knowledge of Arabic and provides a thorough grounding in the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. It starts with the alphabet ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6329 ASRC 1201   SEM 101

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6256 ASRC 1201   SEM 102

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6257 ASRC 1201   SEM 103

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6258 ASRC 1201   SEM 104

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8825 ASRC 1201   SEM 105

ASRC 1203

In this two-course sequence learners continue to develop the four language skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing and grammar foundation through the extensive use of graded materials on a ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1203

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6260 ASRC 1203   SEM 102

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1203

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9642 ASRC 1203   SEM 103

ASRC 1330

This course is an introduction to the music of Sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to exploring the diversity of indigenous musics throughout the continent, students will learn how migration, colonialism, ... view course details

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 1330

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 16780 ASRC 1330   LEC 001

ASRC 1500

This course offers an introduction to the study of Africa, the U.S., the Caribbean and other diasporas.  This course will examine, through a range of disciplines, among them literature, history, politics, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8139 ASRC 1500   LEC 001

  • This course will not fulfill the introductory course requirement for Government.

ASRC 1595

Focusing on political and social history, this course surveys African-American history from Emancipation to the present. The class examines the post-Reconstruction "Nadir" of black life; the mass black ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 1595HIST 1595

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16246 ASRC 1595   LEC 001

ASRC 1822

The short story is an ideal genre through which one might gain a basic introduction to African American literature and its major themes.  The foundational contributions to the development of the antebellum ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17921 ASRC 1822   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASRC 1832

We have a range of expressions that deal with thinking. For example: She is very good at "thinking on her feet" or he "thinks fast" both denote speed of thought – or, the ability to command the response ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17924 ASRC 1832   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASRC 1841

How did Blackness become an object of curiosity, desire and fascination? How did it become exotic? In this course, we will see that this is not the result of a recent development in the representation ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17914 ASRC 1841   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASRC 1845

This course explores the many ways that Black families are depicted on stage, with an emphasis on the work of 20th and 21st century African-American playwrights. Students will read plays by Lorraine Hansberry, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17916 ASRC 1845   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://knight.as.cornell.edu/.

ASRC 1996

This seminar and its accompanying immersion offer undergraduates the unique opportunity to explore the abolition movement of upstate New York. This course provides an introductory examination of antebellum ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Seven Week - First. 

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16967 ASRC 1996   SEM 102

    • M Africana Ctr B01
    • Aug 23 - Oct 12, 2018
    • Aching, G

ASRC 2003

An introductory interdisciplinary course focusing on Africa's geographical, ecological, social and demographic characteristics; indigenous institutions and values; multiple cultural heritage of Africanity, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16661 ASRC 2003   LEC 001

ASRC 2020

The central questions of philosophy are perennial and universal, but the answers that are given to them are always historical and idiomatic.  This course will introduce its enrollees to how these questions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 2525

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16727 ASRC 2020   LEC 001

ASRC 2105

This course is designed for students who can speak and understand a spoken Arabic dialect (Egyptian, Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, etc.) but have little or no knowledge of written Arabic, known as Classical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 2201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9579 ASRC 2105   SEM 101

ASRC 2235

This undergraduate course introduces the formal and topical innovations that African cinema has experienced since its inception in the 1960s. Sections will explore, among others, Nollywood, sci-fi, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2235ENGL 2935

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17144 ASRC 2235   SEM 101

ASRC 2260

In this class, we will examine how musicians working in such genres as rock, jazz, folk, classical, soul, and experimental music responded and contributed to the major themes of the 1960s in the US: the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2260MUSIC 2260

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16451 ASRC 2260   LEC 001

ASRC 2354

This seminar examines some of the political and cultural visions of Africa and Africans held by African-American intellectuals and activists in the 19th and 20th centuries. Emphasis is placed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2354HIST 2354

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16367 ASRC 2354   SEM 101

ASRC 2511

This course explores the social, cultural and communal lives of black women in North America, beginning with the transatlantic slave trade, and ending in 1900. Topics include Northern and Southern enslavement, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2511FGSS 2511HIST 2511

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16317 ASRC 2511   LEC 001

ASRC 2770

Designed for the general student population, this course specifically appeals to students traveling abroad, or who in the future will work with diverse communities (for example, students with interests ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2770ENGL 2770LSP 2770

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9383 ASRC 2770   LEC 001

ASRC 3100

In this two-semester sequence, learners will be introduced to authentic, unedited Arabic language materials ranging from short stories, and poems, to newspaper articles dealing with social,  political,  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 3201

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6261 ASRC 3100   SEM 101

ASRC 3330

Put into questions, the aims of this course are as follow: Should anyone worry about China's presence in Africa? Is China's presence part of the recolonizing of the Continent? Alternatively, is China's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 3333

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16711 ASRC 3330   SEM 101

ASRC 3470

This course explores Caribbean literary, sonic, and visual cultures in New York City from the late 19th century to the present, and examines the ways in which Cuban, Puerto Rican, and Dominican diasporic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9413 ASRC 3470   SEM 101

ASRC 3501

This course is a survey of the visual artistic traditions of Africa. It investigates the different forms of visual art in relation to their historical and socio-cultural context. The symbolism and complexity ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3510

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17610 ASRC 3501   LEC 001

ASRC 3505

Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16843 ASRC 3505   LEC 001

ASRC 3612

Pan-African Drum and Dance Ensemble is an introductory performance course where students learn performance traditions from across West Africa. No prior experience is necessary. Students may choose to focus ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: MUSIC 3612PMA 3212

  • 1 Credit Stdnt Opt

  • 17764 ASRC 3612   STU 501

ASRC 3630

From "Defending our Name" efforts in the late nineteenth century to #SayHerName and #Me, Too in the new millennium, black women have been visible in this nation's public sphere standing at the vanguard ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16983 ASRC 3630   LEC 001

ASRC 3652

What impact did Africa's involvement in the slave trade and its colonization by Europe have on its long-term economic health? What role have post-independence political decisions made within Africa and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 3652

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8366 ASRC 3652   LEC 001

ASRC 4151

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Syllabi: none
  •   Seven Week - Second.  Combined with: COML 4364ROMS 4151

  • 2 Credits Graded

  • 18972 ASRC 4151   SEM 101

    • M Uris Hall 204
    • Oct 15 - Dec 4, 2018
    • Staff

ASRC 4304

It is almost a truism that the United States is the world's most litigious society. As a polity founded on an almost sacralized constitutional foundation, it is no surprise that law and the legal system ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4104ASRC 6340

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16732 ASRC 4304   SEM 101

ASRC 4390

This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16360 ASRC 4390   SEM 101

ASRC 4402

Hip hop has been dependent on women's contributions, yet female artists have had to work hard to contest their marginalization and objectification in the music and culture. Some of the most heated debates ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16721 ASRC 4402   SEM 101

ASRC 4514

This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies.  Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4514ARTH 6514ASRC 6514

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9505 ASRC 4514   SEM 101

ASRC 4601

This course deals with educational innovations geared to promoting equal opportunity based on gender, race and class, in Africa and the African Diaspora. After an introduction of the concepts and theories ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: EDUC 4590

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16662 ASRC 4601   SEM 101

ASRC 4650

This seminar examines the dynamics of modern collective identities which dominated the Egyptian public sphere in the long twentieth century. We will explore the underpinnings and formation of territorial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 4091NES 4605NES 6605

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16537 ASRC 4650   SEM 101

ASRC 4733

How should anti-racist people respond to the new racialized white identities that have emerged recently in Europe and the United States?  What alternative conceptions of whiteness are available? How can ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  9934 ASRC 4733   SEM 101

ASRC 4900

For senior Africana Studies majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  5581 ASRC 4900   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Edmondson, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6414 ASRC 4900   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Harris, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6828 ASRC 4900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Boyce Davies, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6415 ASRC 4900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6416 ASRC 4900   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6417 ASRC 4900   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Farred, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6829 ASRC 4900   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Richardson, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7338 ASRC 4900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Gosa, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7726 ASRC 4900   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aching, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7727 ASRC 4900   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Rooks, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7825 ASRC 4900   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Byfield, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8845 ASRC 4900   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Taiwo, O

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8870 ASRC 4900   IND 623

    • TBA
    • Grovogui, S

ASRC 4902

For students working on special topics, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the Africana Studies and Research Center faculty. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7826 ASRC 4902   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Byfield, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5583 ASRC 4902   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Edmondson, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6441 ASRC 4902   IND 604

    • TBA
    • LaBennett, O

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6830 ASRC 4902   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Boyce Davies, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6442 ASRC 4902   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6443 ASRC 4902   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6444 ASRC 4902   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Farred, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6445 ASRC 4902   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Richardson, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7320 ASRC 4902   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Gosa, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7454 ASRC 4902   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Ademoyo, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7730 ASRC 4902   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Aching, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7731 ASRC 4902   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Rooks, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7827 ASRC 4902   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Bulugu, H

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7828 ASRC 4902   IND 621

    • TBA
    • Staff

ASRC 4947

In this course, you will explore nakedness as a form of protest by various social movements and in compelling fictional texts. As you analyze nakedness from ancient Greece to 21th century Africa, Asia, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4947FGSS 4947

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17603 ASRC 4947   SEM 101

ASRC 6022

This course examines racial and ethnic politics in the United States, highlighting its fundamental and constitutive role in shaping American politics more broadly. We will explore the political origins ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GOVT 6022

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16765 ASRC 6022   SEM 101

ASRC 6132

This graduate seminar seeks to familiarize students with some of the most recent takes on transnational history that have emphasized the experiences of individuals and groups whose lives were affected ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6132

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17326 ASRC 6132   SEM 101

ASRC 6330

African-American views of the questions of race in the decolonization in Africa, the question of freedom, and US foreign policy, including but not limited to W.E.B Dubois's internationalism, Richard Wright's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17322 ASRC 6330   SEM 101

ASRC 6340

It is almost a truism that the United States is the world's most litigious society.   As a polity founded on an almost sacralized constitutional foundation, it is no surprise that law and the legal system ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 4104ASRC 4304

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16805 ASRC 6340   SEM 101

ASRC 6391

This course focuses on the American South in the nineteenth century as it made the transition from Reconstruction to new forms of social organization and patterns of race relations. Reconstruction will ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16362 ASRC 6391   SEM 101

ASRC 6514

This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies.  Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4514ARTH 6514ASRC 4514

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9507 ASRC 6514   SEM 101

ASRC 6900

Independent study course in topics not covered in regularly scheduled courses. Students select a topic in consultation with the faculty member who has agreed to supervise the course work. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6253 ASRC 6900   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Edmondson, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6423 ASRC 6900   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Ademoyo, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6424 ASRC 6900   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Gaines, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6831 ASRC 6900   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Boyce Davies, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6425 ASRC 6900   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6426 ASRC 6900   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6427 ASRC 6900   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Farred, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6832 ASRC 6900   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Richardson, R

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7319 ASRC 6900   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Gosa, T

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7635 ASRC 6900   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Byfield, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7728 ASRC 6900   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Aching, G

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7729 ASRC 6900   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Rooks, N

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7987 ASRC 6900   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Bulugu, H

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8286 ASRC 6900   IND 622

    • TBA
    • Terrazas Williams, D

ASRC 6902

This class is the first in a two-part course sequence offered in the fall and spring semesters annually. In this hybrid theory and methods course, students will read historiographic, ethnographic, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: History, Political and Social Analysis

  •  8138 ASRC 6902   SEM 101