Africana Studies & Research Center (ASRC)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

ASRC 1202

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 1202

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1282 ASRC 1202   SEM 101

    • MTWR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Azzam, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 1202

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1284 ASRC 1202   SEM 104

    • MTWR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Azzam, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 1500

At the inception of this department at Cornell University in 1969, the Africana Studies and Research Center became the birthplace of the field Africana studies. Africana studies emphasizes comparative ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 1500GOVT 1503

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4301 ASRC 1500   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  4302 ASRC 1500   DIS 201

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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 insurgency ... view course details

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

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9939 ASRC 1595   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 1823

“In those days it was either live with music or die with noise, and we chose rather desperately to live” wrote Ralph Ellison in his 1955 essay “Living with Music.” Like Ellison, in “Black Music Writing: ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9499 ASRC 1823   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

ASRC 1862

This seminar explores how we (re)present our deepest commitments, religious or otherwise, to one another and especially in various (digital) publics. The textual examples will be taken from Black religious ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  9489 ASRC 1862   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pickett, X

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

ASRC 1900

The digital revolution has made an enormous amount of information available to research scholars, but discovering resources and using them effectively can be challenging. This course introduces students ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: LSP 1101

  • 1 Credit Graded

  •  1031 ASRC 1900   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - Mar 10, 2026
    • Toombs, H

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2200

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 2202

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1289 ASRC 2200   SEM 102

    • MTWR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Weatherspoon, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2204

This course is designed for students who are interested in reading the language of the Qur'an with accuracy and understanding. The first week (4 classes) will be devoted to an introduction of the history ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARAB 2204NES 2204RELST 2204

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1393 ASRC 2204   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Younes, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2353

This course explores the changing meaning of American freedom and citizenship in the context of the long struggle for black liberation. Relying on social and political history, it confronts the promise, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: AMST 2353HIST 2353

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9942 ASRC 2353   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rickford, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  9943 ASRC 2353   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ASRC 2556

The vast Congo Basin region has shaped the world in ways that are often ignored. Its mineral resources travel the globe - the uranium used to bomb Japan in 1945 came from the Congo, and if you have a cellphone, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 2556

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10031 ASRC 2556   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sandwell, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2650

This course offers an introduction to the philosophy of race. It canvasses key debates in the field concerning the metaphysical status of race, the relationship between the concept of race and racism (and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 2650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4490 ASRC 2650   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Yost, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2674

This course examines major trends in the evolution of the Middle East in the modern era. Focusing on the 19th and 20th centuries and ending with the Arab Spring, we will consider Middle East history with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: GOVT 2747HIST 2674NES 2674

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1365 ASRC 2674   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1366 ASRC 2674   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1367 ASRC 2674   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1368 ASRC 2674   DIS 203

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1369 ASRC 2674   DIS 204

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1370 ASRC 2674   DIS 205

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  1371 ASRC 2674   DIS 206

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Fahmy, Z

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2680

This course will introduce students to African American literary traditions in the space that would become North America. From early freedom narratives and poetry to Hip-Hop and film, we will trace a range ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2650ENGL 2650SHUM 2650

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6239 ASRC 2680   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 2700

This course focuses on African American and African Diaspora visual art from the 1800s to the present. It introduces significant artists and artworks as well as key movements, social, political, and economic ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2700ARTH 2700

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17837 ASRC 2700   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17838 ASRC 2700   DIS 201

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 17839 ASRC 2700   DIS 202

    • F
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3029

In his work "Black Reconstruction in America," Du Bois glosses over a key moment in American revolutionary thinking. Senator Wade of Ohio, among three Whig politicians impatient with Abraham Lincoln's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3029AMST 6029ASRC 6029

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4323 ASRC 3029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3101

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 3202

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  1293 ASRC 3101   SEM 101

    • MTWR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Younes, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3125

Immanuel Levinas is known as a thinker whose work turns on the relation to the other. Specifically, Levinas is synonymous with the concept of the face-to-face. That is, in a Levinasian word, if I look ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6125

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4325 ASRC 3125   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3237

This course examines compelling and complementary philosophies, pieties, and consequences of the Black Power era to the present. With an eye to the history that precedes this era, we chart the liberatory ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3237

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4327 ASRC 3237   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pickett, X

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3322

In her pathbreaking text Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments: Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval Saidiya Hartman writes that young Black women were radical thinkers who tirelessly imagined other ways ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4319 ASRC 3322   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Dromgoole, A

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Pre-requisite: ASRC 1500 or ASRC 1932.

ASRC 3340

Ideas change the world. Sometimes the same ideas can do tremendous good and also cause great suffering. In this course we will consider violence and revolutionary changes through the prism of European ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ENGL 3340

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18237 ASRC 3340   SEM 101

    • MW
    • Ngugi, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3401

At the conclusion of World War II, the United States ushered in a new international order based on the principles of the Atlantic Charter, which became the basis for the United Nations Charter: including ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3401GOVT 3211

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4311 ASRC 3401   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Grovogui, S

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3402

The dominant strains in Euro-American philosophy tend either to erase or underplay the participation in and contributions to the constitution of Western philosophy of philosophers from the global African ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PHIL 3525

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4317 ASRC 3402   LEC 001

    • MW
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Taiwo, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 3508

In 1940, with the publication of his novel Native Son, Richard Wright helped to launch the protest era in African American literature. This course focuses on the development of key fiction and nonfiction ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3508ENGL 3508

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4299 ASRC 3508   LEC 001

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 4515

This seminar brings together work in critical black studies and psychoanalysis with recent black art histories to examine black abstraction and conceptualism. Blackness can be understood as a concept made ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17833 ASRC 4515   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 4526

Black Feminism is an umbrella term that describes a range of social/political practices and theories that are historically rooted in and extrapolated from the embodied experiences of Black women. In this ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one seminar and one independent study. Combined with: ENGL 4526

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18036 ASRC 4526   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  • 18037 ASRC 4526   IND 601

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Frazier, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ASRC 4561

How has history shaped our notion of Black girlhood? What is our collective understanding of Black girlhood? How do we see and understand Black girls? Black Girlhood Studies is a multidisciplinary field ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 14119 ASRC 4561   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ailsworth, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

    Application required. See https://forms.gle/uECvEmNeCTnN82Km8 to apply.

ASRC 4602

There are two contrasting views of the status and role of women in Africa. One view portrays African women as controlled by men in all social institutions. Another view projects women as having a relatively ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 6602SHUM 4202

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10377 ASRC 4602   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 4712

Race is but one of many ways that we classify ourselves and others as we navigate the world. But what role has science, technology, and medicine played in shaping our understanding of race as both a concept ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  1763 ASRC 4712   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 4901

For senior Africana Studies majors working on an honors thesis, 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 Graded

  •  4245 ASRC 4901   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4246 ASRC 4901   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4247 ASRC 4901   IND 608

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4248 ASRC 4901   IND 609

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4249 ASRC 4901   IND 610

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4250 ASRC 4901   IND 611

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4251 ASRC 4901   IND 612

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4252 ASRC 4901   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4253 ASRC 4901   IND 614

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4254 ASRC 4901   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Aching, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4255 ASRC 4901   IND 616

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rooks, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4256 ASRC 4901   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • LaBennett, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4257 ASRC 4901   IND 618

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Taiwo, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4258 ASRC 4901   IND 619

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Grovogui, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4259 ASRC 4901   IND 620

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gaines, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  4260 ASRC 4901   IND 621

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Snorton, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ASRC 4903

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
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4261 ASRC 4903   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4262 ASRC 4903   IND 603

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4263 ASRC 4903   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4264 ASRC 4903   IND 608

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4265 ASRC 4903   IND 609

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4266 ASRC 4903   IND 610

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4267 ASRC 4903   IND 612

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4268 ASRC 4903   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4269 ASRC 4903   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Grovogui, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4270 ASRC 4903   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Gosa, T

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4271 ASRC 4903   IND 618

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ademoyo, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4272 ASRC 4903   IND 619

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Aching, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4273 ASRC 4903   IND 622

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Bulugu, H

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4274 ASRC 4903   IND 623

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • LaBennett, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4275 ASRC 4903   IND 624

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Taiwo, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

Syllabi: none
  •   Project Session Full. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4276 ASRC 4903   IND 625

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

    To apply: first discuss the Independent Study with the course supervisor, and then complete the online Independent Study form at https://data.arts.cornell.edu/as-stus/indep_study_intro.cfm.

ASRC 6029

In his work "Black Reconstruction in AMerica," Du Bois glosses over a key moment in American revolutionary thinking. Senator Wade of Ohio, among three Whig politicians impatient with Abraham Lincoln's ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3029AMST 6029ASRC 3029

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4324 ASRC 6029   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 6125

Immanuel Levinas is known as a thinker whose work turns on the relation to the other. Specifically, Levinas is synonymous with the concept of the face-to-face. That is, in a Levinasian word, if I look ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3125

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4326 ASRC 6125   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 6204

This class is devoted to the in-depth study of the works of W.E.B. DuBois. The aim is to locate DuBois in the general philosophical filaments while mining his works for specific philosophical insights ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  4297 ASRC 6204   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Taiwo, O

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 6506

This seminar brings together work in critical black studies and psychoanalysis with recent black art histories to examine black abstraction and conceptualism. Blackness can be understood as a concept made ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17835 ASRC 6506   SEM 101

    • M
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ekpo, P

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 6602

There are two contrasting views of the status and role of women in Africa. One view portrays African women as controlled by men in all social institutions. Another view projects women as having a relatively ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4602SHUM 4202

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10379 ASRC 6602   SEM 101

    • TR
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 6712

Race is but one of many ways that we classify ourselves and others as we navigate the world. But what role has science, technology, and medicine played in shaping our understanding of race as both a concept ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  1760 ASRC 6712   SEM 101

    • T
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ASRC 6901

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

  •  4277 ASRC 6901   IND 602

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Grovogui, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4278 ASRC 6901   IND 604

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4279 ASRC 6901   IND 607

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Boyce Davies, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4280 ASRC 6901   IND 608

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Assie-Lumumba, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4281 ASRC 6901   IND 609

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4282 ASRC 6901   IND 610

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Farred, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4283 ASRC 6901   IND 611

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Staff

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4284 ASRC 6901   IND 612

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Richardson, R

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4285 ASRC 6901   IND 613

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Byfield, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4286 ASRC 6901   IND 615

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Aching, G

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4287 ASRC 6901   IND 616

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Rooks, N

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4288 ASRC 6901   IND 617

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • LaBennett, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4289 ASRC 6901   IND 618

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Taiwo, O

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4290 ASRC 6901   IND 619

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Sheppard, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4291 ASRC 6901   IND 620

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Ademoyo, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-6 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  4292 ASRC 6901   IND 621

    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Chresfield, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

ASRC 6903

This class is the second 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. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Cultural, Literary, Visual Analysis

  •  4293 ASRC 6903   SEM 101

    • W
    • Jan 20 - May 5, 2026
    • Pickett, X

  • Instruction Mode: In Person