What to Read in College - African Studies and African American Studies Courses

Written by Stephanie Taylor, Editor-in-Chief & Owner, Intelligent Luxury

"In the early 1990s, Mr. Bloom and Ms. Morrison  stood opposite sides of a cultural debate what to read in college,and more broadly how to read," read the New York Times article titled Did Harold Bloom Win the Canon Wars? by Joe Karaganis and David McClure. What books should we read in college? To read more African - American non-fiction and fiction literature in college, we need more African-Americans, Africans, and Caribbean - Americans to write more non-fiction and fiction literature.  Stephanie, is me.  I took African-American and African studies courses at the Temple University.  However, I am writing an article about African and African - American study courses. Several universities have Middle Eastern studies - should Middle Eastern studies be in Asian and African studies departments too?

The University of Pennsylvania, President Donald Trump graduated from this university, has an African studies department.   Should we who want to read more African literature learn Arabic.

I am writing down the classes or courses I would take in the future.   I was a double major, minor - I loved reading. I don't have an editor, so accept the typos. Temple University has fine good looking men! I love Temple University. The most diverse school in the United States! :) Fried chicken at Temple University is super. Super Fudge!

nytimes.com  Maybe some classes were full and I want take them. Maybe I want to retake a class.

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I Would Take These African Studies or African - American Studies Courses at These Universities and Colleges 

University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill
https://catalog.unc.edu/courses/aaad/
AAAD 344. African American Theatre: Exploring Legacy and Contemporary Voices.
AAAD 201. Introduction to African Literature.
AAAD 260. Blacks in Latin America.
AAAD 298. Blacks in British North America to 1833.
AAAD 303. Islamic Cultures in Contemporary Africa.
AAAD 318. Politics of Art in Africa.
Michael Jordan's alma mater.
AAAD 319. Africa and Masks.
AAAD 320. Music of Africa.
AAAD 333. Race and Public Policy in the United States.
AAAD 356. The History of Hip-Hop Culture.

Stanford University
africanstudies.stanford.edu/
AFRICAST 132
Literature and Society in Africa and the Caribbean
HISTORY 448A
Colonial States and African Societies, Part I

Hobart and William and Smith Colleges
https://www.hws.edu/catalogue/afri.aspx
They have a lot of courses I would take in Africana Studies
ARAB 101 Beginning Arabic I (CP, C)

AFS 430 The Films of Spike Lee

HIST 331 Law in Africa (H)

Perdue University
cla.purdue.edu/academic/sis/p/african-american/

AAS39300/HIST3900
Caribbean History and Culture

Yale University
yale.edu
afamstudies.yale.edu/academics/undergraduate-major-african-american-studies
Sickness and Health in the African American History
Medicine and Race in the Slave Trade
African American Autobiography
Ethnography of the African American Community
 First Lady Michelle Obama attended Yale University. Minored in African - American studies.
Sometimes they delete the hyphen.

Columbia University
afamstudies.columbia.edu/
African-American Music

Northwestern University
afam.northwestern.edu/
245-0-20 The Black Diaspora and Transnationality

University of Illinois - Chicago
aast.uic.edu/
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Boston University
bu.edu
They have a minor in African American Studies
CAS AA 490 Blacks and Asians: Encounters Through Time and Space

CAS AA 313 The Politics and Policy of HBO’s The Wire

Clark Atlanta University
cau.edu/school-of-arts-and-sciences/aawh/index.html
CHIS 201 The United States, Africa and the World I
CHIS 202 The United States, Africa and the World II 

Boston College
bc.edu/
AADS2306/MUSA2306 Music of Africa
AADS4485/HIST 4485 Medicine and Public Health in the African Diaspora
AADS4472/COMM4472 Race, Law, and Media

Temple University
Africology
cla.temple.edu/africology-and-african-american-studies/
AAAS 0857. Sport & Leisure in American Society.
AAAS 2134. The Literature of American Slavery.
AAAS 2151. History of Blacks in Cinema
Do you watch Dolemite for this course?
AAAS 2165. History and Culture of the Caribbean.
AAAS 2201. African Civilization
AAAS 2405. Introduction to Afro-Jewish Studies
and more!

Brandeis University
Department of African and African American Studies
brandeis.edu/aaas/
#BlackLivesMatter

Alabma A&M University
aamu.edu/academics/colleges/agricultural-life-natural-sciences/

Savannah State University
savannahstate.edu
savannahstate.edu/academic-affairs/catalog19-20undergraduate.pdf
ENGL 3216 African-American Poetry
ENGL 3217 African American Fiction
ENGL 4220 Afro-Caribbean

ENGL 4105 Advanced Playwriting

ENGL 4417 Poetry Writing Seminar

ENGL 4040 Black British Literature 

Princeton University
African American Studies
aas.princeton.edu/
AAS 201 (EC)

African American Studies and the Philosophy of Race


Religion and Culture: Muslims in America

Race and Medicine

Kongo Art

Art and the British Empire

Haiti: History, Literature, and Arts of the First Black Republic

Howard University
howard.edu
Hip Hop & Popular Cult. Africa - 17858 - AFST 132 - 01
South Africa.Hist in Lit. Film - 19690 - AFST 158 - 01
Black Experience in Caribbean - 14869 - AFRO 163 - 01

Howard University has stylish caps and gowns!

Yale University
Department of African American Studies
afamstudies.yale.edu/

Harvard University
Department of African and African American Studies
aaas.fas.harvard.edu/

Afro - Latin America: History and Culture

African Art & Religion

African American Lives in the Law

Introduction to African Literary and Film Production

Critiquing Black Muslim Reason in the United States

Africa Rising? New African Economies/Cultures and Their Global Implications

Advanced Cameroonian Pidgin

Retired NFL player and CBS anchor James Brown graduated from Harvard University.

American University
american.edu/cas/crgc/afam/ba.cfm
LIT-225 African Literature FA1

Syracuse University
aas.syr.edu/
AAS 403 African / Caribbean Women

Hofstra University
hofstra.edu/academics/colleges/hclas/africa/africa-courses-undergraduate.html

AFST 039 - (CC, CP) The American Experience and Africanist Dance Practices
AFST 156 - Economic and Social History of the Caribbean from Slavery to National Independence
AFST 124 - The Francophone Experience in North Africa
AFST 139 - (LT, CC) The African Novel

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