Courses Offered by the Institute of African Studies (2022-23)

Fall 2022 (September – December)

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Undergraduate

Course Code & Section: AFRI 1001 A
Title: Introduction to African Studies
Section Information: Please note: AFRI 1001 is not a prerequisite for AFRI 1002.
Course delivery: ONLINE BLENDED.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 2002 A
Title: The Horn of Africa

Course Code & Section: AFRI 2003 A
Title: The Great Lakes Region of Africa
Course Description: The economic, social and political challenges facing the Great Lake Regions of Africa, including the 1994 Rwanda genocide and its aftermath. Course is segmented into; The Interlacustrine Kingdoms, The Colonial Encounters, The Decolonization Processes, The East African Community, The Tanzania-Uganda War, The Rwandan Genocide, The Congo Wars, The Burundi Peace Negotiations, The Refugee Crises, The Rwanda-Uganda Conflict, The Kenya-Uganda-Rwanda’s Coalition of the Willing, The East African Federation

Prerequisite(s): AFRI 1001 or AFRI 1002 or FYSM 1901 or permission of the Institute of African Studies.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 3001 A
Title: Globalization and Popular Culture in Africa
Course Description: This course examines new popular life-worlds in Africa. Though potentially “elusive” to conceptualize, this course shows how these forms of popular culture are related to the role of youth culture and social media in an age of globalization and democratization.
Prerequisite(s): third year standing and at least 1.0 credit in AFRI or permission of the Institute of African Studies.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 3003 A
Title: African Social and Political Thought (Course Outline Fall 2021)
Course Description: The African communitarian tradition. Contemporary African social and political thought, situated in their broad historical contexts.
Prerequisite(s): third year standing and at least 1.0 credit in AFRI or permission of the Institute of African Studies.
Course delivery: IN-PERSON. NOT SUITABLE FOR ONLINE STUDENTS.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 3609 A
Title: African Cinema
Course Description: Major moments, debates, figures and movements in African cinema around such categories as the colonial, the anti-colonial, the postcolonial, the national, the continental, the diasporic, the global, race, Afro-futurism, and world cinema, interrogating in the process the very category of “African cinema.” Also listed as FILM 3609.
Prerequisite(s): 1.0 credit in FILM and third year standing or permission of instructor.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 3609 AF (Film Screening)
Title: African Cinema
Section Information: Film Screening

Course Code & Section: AFRI 4050 A
Title: Racecraft: African Perspectives
Course Description: Selected topics in African studies not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topic varies from year to year. Students should check with the institute regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing and at least 1.0 credit in AFRI or permission of the Institute of African Studies. Also offered at the graduate level, with different requirements, as AFRI 5050, for which additional credit is precluded.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 4900 A
Title: Tutorial in African Studies
Course Description: A tutorial on selected topics in which seminars are not available.
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Institute of African Studies and agreement of an instructor.

Graduate

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5000 F
Title: African Studies as a Discipline: Historical and Current Perspectives
Course Description: This course examines the formation of African Studies as a discipline, including the historical and ongoing debates over its boundaries and genealogies and its changing research paradigms.
Course delivery: ONLINE SYNCHRONOUS.
Note: Concurrent registration in AFRI 5800 is required.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5050 F
Title: Racecraft: African Perspectives
Course Description: Selected topics in African studies not ordinarily treated in the regular course program. The choice of topic varies from year to year. Students should check with the institute regarding the topic offered.
Prerequisite(s): fourth-year standing and at least 1.0 credit in AFRI or permission of the Institute of African Studies. Also offered at the undergraduate level, with different requirements, as AFRI 4050, for which additional credit is precluded.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5700 F
Title: Directed Readings in African Studies
Course Description: A Tutorial on a selected topic in African Studies in which seminars are not available.
Note: Permission of the Department and agreement of an instructor.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5800 F
Title: Scholarly Preparation in African Studies
Course Description: This course will provide scholarly preparation in African Studies by requiring participation in public talks as both audience member and presenter.
Note: Concurrent registration in AFRI 5000 is required.

Course Code & Section: AFRI 5900 F
Title: Placement
Course Description: Students spend up to one day a week participating in an organization that has an African focus, while carrying out tasks that have a scholarly content. Consult the Director of the Institute of African Studies.