Our Courses

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 103D

Beginning Swahili I

Credits: 5 | Frequency: Annually

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 1045

Wolof Language and Culture

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 1046

Wolof Language and Culture II

Instructors: Mutonya, Septer

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 104D

Beginning Swahili II

Credits: 5 | Frequency: Annually

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 1130

Introduction to Race

Instructors: Fenderson, Manditch-Prottas

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 1240

Beats, Rhymes & Life: A Cultural History of Hip-Hop

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 144

First-Year Seminar: Monumental Anti-Racism

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 178

First-Year Seminar: Imagining and Creating Africa: Youth, Culture, and Change

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 192

First-Year Seminar: Africans Experiences in the Second World War

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 195

First-Year Seminar: Travel Noire: Consumption and the Gaze in the Black Travel Movement

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 1951

Becoming Free: A History of Black Womens Ideas in the U.S.

Instructors: Dennis

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 200I

Independent Work

Credits: Variable | Frequency: None

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 201

Black Theater Workshop

Instructors: Himes

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 203D

Intermediate Swahili III

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2045

The Writer as Witness: Mourning and Memory in the African Novel

Instructors: Mbatha

Instructors: Mutonya, Septer

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 204D

Intermediate Swahili IV

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 210

The Linguistic Legacy of the African Slave Trade in Interdisciplinary Perspective

Instructors: Baugh

Instructors: Frierson

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 211

Blackness and the Politics of Recognition in Latin America

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2151

St. Louis Black History, Culture and Civic Engagement

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2153

Topics in African American Studies: Afro-Latin America on Camera

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2154

Topics in African-American Studies: The Struggle for Black Reparations

Instructors: Dennis

Instructors: Fenderson

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2157

Racism, Reform & Rebellion: The Ferguson Uprising & the Rise of Black Lives Matter

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 220

Topics in AMCS:

Instructors: Pena

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2232

Gender and Sexuality in the African Diaspora

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2250

First Year Seminar: African-American Women's History: Sexuality, Violence and the Love of Hip Hop

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 251

Juvenile Justice in the Black Experience

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 255

Introduction to Africana Studies

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 288

Free the Land: Black Lives and Environmental (In)Justice

Instructors: Samuel

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 2999

Internship in African & African American Studies

Instructors: Weeden

Credits: Variable | Frequency: None

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3000

Directed Research in African & African American Studies

Instructors: [TBA]

Credits: Variable | Frequency: None

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3003

From Shaft to Django: The History of Blaxploitation Film

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3004

Black Feminist Thought

Instructors: Luna

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 301

A History of African-American Theater

Instructors: Himes

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 301F

Historical Methods-African History

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3030

Coming of Age: Coming to Consciousness in Black American Literature, Film, and Music

Instructors: Eldridge Stewart

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3031

Music of the African Diaspora

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 305C

Topics on Africa: African Urban Futures

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3062

Islam, Culture and Society in West Africa

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 306B

Africa: Peoples and Cultures

Instructors: Ross

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3071

Caribbean Literature in English

Instructors: Brown

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3075

Recipes for Respect: Black Foodways in the United States

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3103

Topics: African American Politics

Instructors: Hayes

Instructors: Cecil Slaughter

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 311

Modern Dance and the African-American Legacy

Credits: 2 | Frequency: None

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3111

African American Images in Film

Instructors: Baugh

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3113

Culture, Politics, and Society in Francophone Africa

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3117

Capitalism, Socialism and Labor: The Political Economy of 20th Century Africa

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3120

African Immigration to the United States of America

Instructors: Eldridge Stewart

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3152

Jazz in American Culture

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3190

Engaging the City: The Material World of Modern Segregation: St. Louis in the Long Era of Ferguson

Instructors: Kolk

Instructors: McDowell

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3192

Black New Orleans

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 321C

African Civilization to 1800

Instructors: Isseroff

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3230

Jews and Jewishness in Black American Thought

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3245

Selected Writers: Toni Morrison

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3254

African Americans and Children's Literature

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3255

Black Masculinities

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3300

Culture and Identity:

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 330S

Topics in Gender & Am Culture:Native Sons & Daughters:Gender, Sexuality and African-American Culture

Instructors: Dingwall

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 332R

Race and Design

Instructors: Frierson

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 336

Zambaje: AfroIndigenous Relations in Latin America

Instructors: Fenderson

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3405

For Freedom's Sake: The Civil Rights Movement in America

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3422

James Baldwin: Life, Letters & Legacy

Instructors: Claude, Bathily

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3430

West African Music and Dance in Context

Credits: 2 | Frequency: None

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3445

Sabotage and Anarchy: The Study of Power, Mourning, and Resistance in Black Girlhood

Instructors: Brown

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3447

Visualizing Blackness: Histories of the African Diaspora Through Film

Instructors: Fenderson, Jonathan Bryan, Manditch-Prottas

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3456

Beats, Rhymes & Life: A Cultural History of Hip-Hop

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3500

Barack Obama and the Idea of an African-American Presidency

Instructors: Rosenfeld, McCollough

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3522

Passing: Identities Lost and Found

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3523

Blacks and Jews in America: From Ghetto to Gated

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3550

Undoing Empire: Introduction to Postcolonial Writing and Art

Instructors: Mbatha

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3600

Beyond Sea, Sunshine and Soca: A History of the Caribbean

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 363

Mapping the World of "Black Criminality"

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3644

"Look Here, Karen": The Politics of Black Digital Resistance to White Femininity

Instructors: Lloyd

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3651

Black Women Writers

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3655

Black Conservatives and Their Discontent: African Americans and Conservatism in America

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3662

Experts, Administrators and Soldiers: Governance and Development in Post-Colonial Africa

Instructors: Frierson

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 367

Maroons and Marronage

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3672

Medicine, Healing and Experimentation in the Contours of Black History

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 368

Emerging Africa: Language, Identity, and Social Change

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 384

African and African American Religious Thought

Instructors: Green

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3861

Psychology of Black Women

Instructors: Leath

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 386A

Topics in African-American Literature: Rebels, Sheroes, and Race Men

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 387C

African-American Literature: Early Writers to the Harlem Renaissance

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 3890

Black Heritage Preservation Seminar and St. Louis Workshop

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 393

Topics in Women,Gender, and Sexuality Studies

Instructors: Wanzo

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 395C

African Civilization: 1800 to the Present

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 39SM

WOMEN AND CRIME IN THE EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN HISTORY

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 400

Independent Study

Credits: Variable | Frequency: Every Semester

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4008

Slavery and Public History

Instructors: Parikh, Caldwell

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 401

Senior Seminar

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4013

Queer of Color Critique

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 403

Advanced Swahili

Instructors: Parikh, Lieberman

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 406

Sexual Health and the City: A StudioLab Course Course on the Politics of Reproduction

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 409

Gender, Sexuality, and Change in Africa

Instructors: Parikh

Credits: 3 | Frequency: Every 2-3 Years

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4102

Rastafari, Reggae, and Resistance

Instructors: Bedasse

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4103

Black Decolonial Thought: Conceptualizing Epistemic Violence from Frantz Fanon to Achille Mbembe

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4110

The Black South Atlantic

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4134

The AIDS Epidemic: Inequalities, Ethnography, and Ethics

Instructors: Parikh

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 415B

Historic Preservation, Memory and Community

Instructors: Allen

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 417

Topics in African History: Power and Rebellion in 20th-Century Africa

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4215

Mediated Blackness: A Black Studies Approach to Digital Methods

Instructors: Lloyd

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4224

American Literature II

Instructors: Maxwell

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4235

Blackness in Brazil

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 423B

Topics in American Literature

Instructors: Maxwell

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 424A

Topics in American Literature: Slavery and its Legacies

Instructors: Li

Instructors: Walke, Ward

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 426W

Memory for the Future

Credits: 4 | Frequency: Unpredictable

Instructors: Steinbeck

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4311

Black Experimental Music

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4401

Intersectionality

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 442

Engineering Authority: Design, Architecture, and Power in Africa

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4489

Topics in African-American Studies: Black Political Thought

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 452

Topics in African American Literature: Stars of the Canon

Instructors: McBride

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4601

Historical Racial Violence: Legacies & Reckonings

Instructors: Parikh, Lieberman

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4602

Topics in Afro-American Studies: Afro-American Poetry from 1920 to the Present

Instructors: Michelle Purdy

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4607

Education of Black Children and Youth

Instructors: Nichols Lodato

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 461B

Construction and Experience of Black Adolescence

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 470

What is Africanfuturism? 21st Century African Speculative Fiction

Instructors: McDowell

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 474

Black Geographies: Space, Place and Ecologies of Power

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 475

Advanced African History Seminar

Instructors: Caldwell

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4781

Human Rights and Democracy in African Diaspora Communities

Instructors: McGinley, Ward

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES 479

On location:Exploring America-Performing the Past: Black History and Collective Memory in Charleston

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4890

Catholicism and Slavery

Instructors: Phillips

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 499

Independent Work for Senior Honors: Research

Credits: 3 | Frequency: Every Semester

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 4991

Independent Work for Senior Honors: Thesis

Credits: 3 | Frequency: Every Semester

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 500

Independent Work: Graduate Student

Credits: Variable | Frequency: Every Semester

Instructors: Parikh, Lieberman

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5060

Sexual Health and the City: A StudioLab Course on the Politics of Reproduction

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5103

Black Decolonial Thought: Conceptualizing Epistemic Violence from Frantz Fanon to Achille Mbembe

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5110

The Black South Atlantic

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 515B

Historic Preservation, Memory and Community

Instructors: Allen

Instructors: Fleming, Jr.

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5231

Seminar in American Literature

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5235

Blackness in Brazil

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5401

Intersectionality

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 545

Writing Black Lives: The Theory and Literary History of African American Autobiography

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5500

Graduate Seminar in Global Black Studies: Approaches, Theories, and Methods

Instructors: McBride

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5601

Historical Racial Violence: Legacies & Reckonings

Instructors: Nichols Lodato

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5610

Construction and Experience of Black Adolescence

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 563

Mapping the World of "Black Criminality"

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5644

"Look Here, Karen": The Politics of Black Digital Resistance to White Feminity

Instructors: Lloyd

L90 AFRICAN AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES 5890

Catholicism and Slavery