Course Listing For AFST

(AFST)AMHA 1001. Elementary Amharic I. 4 hours.
Oasis Title: ELEM AMHARIC I.
Introduction to Amharic language and culture. Emphasis on the sound system, pronunciation, grammar, reading, and conversation in Amharic. Students will also be exposed to computer enhanced materials that will speed up their understanding of the writing system in the oral proficiency.
Offered fall semester every year.

(AFST)AMHA 1002. Elementary Amharic II. 4 hours.
Oasis Title: ELEM AMHARIC II.
Prerequisite: AMHA(AFST) 1001.
Continuation of Elementary Amharic I. Introduction to more aspects of Amharic language and culture. Emphasis on reinforcing the mastery of the sound system, pronunciation, grammar, and vocabulary. There will also be emphasis on speaking, reading, and writing skills.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)RELI 1200. Introduction to Study of African Religion. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO AFRCN RELI.
Introduction to meaning, origin, and characteristics of African religion, focusing on the approaches and challenges in studying African religion.
Offered every year.

(AFST)AMHA 2001. Intermediate Amharic I. 4 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERMED AMHARIC I.
Prerequisite: AMHA(AFST) 1002.
Introduction to more sophisticated structures of the language, including grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures. Emphasis on developing upper-level oral skills that would enable the student to sustain conversation with a native speaker with minimum difficultyand to develop comprehension and composition skills.
Offered fall semester every year.

(AFST)AMHA 2002. Intermediate Amharic II. 4 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERMED AMHARIC II.
Prerequisite: AMHA(AFST) 2001.
Continuation of the language, including grammar, vocabulary, and sentence structures. Emphasis on the ability to engage in reasonable fluent discourse in Amharic and a comprehensive knowledge of formal grammar, and the ability to read Amharic with a high level of complex grammatical structures and cultural knowledge.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)HIST 2052. Multiculturalism in Modern America. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: MULTICULTUR MOD AM.
United States history since 1865 from a multicultural and multiethnic perspective. The course will emphasize social, cultural, and political dimensions of the American experience, paying particular attention to issues of race and ethnicity. Highlights the contributions of the many different peoples who make up America.
Offered every year.

(AFST)MUSI 2080. African American Music. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFR AM MUSIC.
A survey of musical styles created and/or developed by African Americans in North America from c. 17th century to the 21st century. Includes socio-cultural approach drawing from the African heritage to other continental appropriations. Key personalities in the development of the African American music culture and their contributions will also be examined.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered spring semester every even-numbered year.

AFST(ANTH)(CMLT)(GEOG)(HIST)(SOCI) 2100. Introduction to Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO AFRICA.
The history, physical environment (landforms, vegetation, and climate), and sociocultural environment (artistic, political, and social development) of Africa.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

(AFST)HIST 2501. Introduction to African History to 1800. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICA TO 1800.
History of Africa to 1800. Origins of agriculture, rise and growth of complex societies and states, spread and importance of Islam, trans-Saharan and Indian Ocean trade, rise of the Atlantic slave trade, and diaspora issues.
Offered every year.

(AFST)MUSI 2860. African Music Ensemble. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 4 hours credit.
Oasis Title: AFR MUS ENSEMBLE.
An ensemble performing choral, dance, and instrumental music from Africa including sacred, secular, and popular music.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)YORB 3002. Advanced Yoruba II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ADV YORUBA II.
Not open to students with credit in YORB(AFAM) 3020.
Prerequisite: YORB 3010.
Advanced readings, novels, thematic texts, and rhetoric. Focus on developing comprehension of textual materials. Introduction to scientific and other specialized materials.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)(CMLT)SWAH 3010. Swahili Studies I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SWAHILI STUDIES I.
Exploration of the aspects of Swahili literary history and civilization. It will provide knowledge of East Africa (not explored in regular language classes) through geography, history, political, and economic structures. The main focus will be on critical readings on Swahili literature, history, and civilization.
Offered fall semester every year.

(AFST)(CMLT)SWAH 3020. Swahili Studies II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SWAHILI STUDIES II.
An exploration of Swahili culture in contemporary literary texts; a discussion on how literary texts about the Swahili language and its speakers are used to manifest the culture and how external influences affect the indigenous Swahili culture. Readings of novels from the target country, documents, and other archival materials will be expected of the students.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)(ANTH)CMLT 3030. Introduction to African Languages and Cultures. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFR LANG AND CULT.
Not open to students with credit in SWAH(YORB)(AFAM) 3030.
Overview of African languages and cultures, their diversity and similarities. Critical approach to discourses on Africa.
Offered fall semester every year.

(AFST)CMLT 3150. Introduction to Modern African Literature. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTRO MOD AFR LIT.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102.
The literature of twentieth-century Africa in translation with emphasis on the African novel.
Offered every year.

(AFST)RELI 3202. African Concept of God and Humanity. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFR CNCPT GOD & HUM.
Prerequisite: RELI(AFST) 1200 or AFST(RELI) 1201.
African concepts of God in names, attributes, status, monotheism, human origin, function of soul, human destiny, rites of passage, and predestination.
Offered every year.

(AFST)(BIOL)PBIO 3450. Natural History of Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: NAT HISTORY AFRICA.
Prerequisite: (BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1103L) or permission of department.
The study of natural history on location in Africa. During visits to game parks, rain forests, coral reefs, beaches, and mangrove forests, the animal, plant, and insect species will be identified, and the geological setting will be explained. Human evolution and exploitation of the environment will also be discussed.
Non-traditional format: Background lectures, usually at night, on the topics to be studied or the locations to be visited. Students are required to keep a detailed journal with daily observations of what they have learned and sketches of what they have seen. This is a Study Abroad course taught during the Maymester.
Offered summer semester every year.

(AFST)(BIOL)PBIO 3450H. Natural History of Africa (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: NAT HISTORY AFRICA.
Not open to students with credit in PBIO(AFST)(BIOL) 3450.
Prerequisite: [(BIOL 1103 and BIOL 1103L) or permission of department] and permission of Honors.
The study of natural history on location in Africa. During visits to game parks, rain forests, coral reefs, beaches, and mangrove forests, the animal, plant, and insect species will be identified, and the geological setting will be explained. Human evolution and exploitation of the environment will also be discussed.
Non-traditional format: Background lectures, usually at night, on the topics to be studied or the locations to be visited. Students are required to keep a detailed journal with daily observations of what they have learned and sketches of what they have seen. Students seeking Honors credit are required to write a paper on a mutually agreed specific topic. This is a Study Abroad course taught during the Maymester.
Offered summer semester every year.

(AFST)ANTH 3460. Africa: Peoples and Institutions. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICA PEOPLES/INST.
Prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or ANTH 2120H or permission of department.
Peoples and institutions of Africa, south of the Sahara, starting with earliest evidence of indigenous peoples, with special emphasis on current changes.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)HIST 3500. Seventeenth Through Nineteenth-Century Southern Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: SO AFRICA 1600-1902.
Social, political, and economic changes in southern African societies (South Africa, Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique) as they assimilated non-African peoples, their ideas, and material culture. Independent, viable and adaptable, Africans engaged Portuguese, British, Boers, and Germans as they competed for land, cattle, and trade.
Offered every year.

(AFST)HIST 3511. East Africa to the Nineteenth Century. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: EAST AFR TO 19TH.
Economic, political, and cultural history of East Africa to the nineteenth century. Growth of agricultural systems, forms and functions of states and kingdoms, the world of the Indian Ocean, slavery and rebellion.
Offered every year.

(AFST)HIST 3512. East Africa in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: 19-20 CENT E AFRICA.
Economic and cultural history of East Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Food, trade, commodification, slavery, rage, missionary and colonial interests, nationalisms, independence, art and literature.
Offered every year.

(AFST)HIST 3530. Women in Sub-Saharan Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: WOM IN SUB-SAH AFRI.
Women's social, economic, spiritual, and political contributions to African history from precolonial to contemporary times. Emphasizing African women, it also addresses European and Asian women immigration. Women's interpretations of their identities, social worlds, and experiences, recognizing their essential role in African societies.
Offered every year.

(AFST)GEOG 3650. Africa in the Global Economy. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICA GLOBAL ECON.
Prerequisite: GEOG 1101 or permission of department.
Africa's colonialism and its legacy; post-colonial politics; trading relationships; issues of migrant labor; debates over population growth and economic change; environmental degradation; urban development; and agriculture and food security.
Non-traditional format: The course will be taught as part of the Maymester program in Tanzania, involving lectures and field trips.

AFST 3900. Introduction to Service Learning in Africa. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit.
Oasis Title: INTRO SRV LRN AFR.
Preparation for service learning in Africa, including an introduction to African cultures and history. A culturally relative approach will prepare students to encounter new cultures, and to see problems and opportunities in the community in which they will work. Introduction to the opportunities they will have to serve local community needs.
Non-traditional format: Students will be required to do extensive outside readings and research on selected topics.

AFST 3990. Directed Study in African Studies. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit.
Oasis Title: DIR STUDY AFST.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Readings and discussions of current developments in African studies carried out as a contract between an individual student and an appropriate instructor.
Non-traditional format: Professor and student will meet as needed.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)YORB 4001. Yoruba Culture and Civilization. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: YORB CULT AND CIVI.
Not open to students with credit in YORB(AFST) 3002 or YORB 3010 or YORB 4010 or YORB(AFST) 4001.
Introduction to the language, life, and culture of Yoruba- speaking people in West Africa and other parts of the World.
Offered fall semester every year.

AFST 4200/6200. Critical Issues in Contemporary Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICA CRIT ISSUES.
Undergraduate prerequisite: AFST(ANTH)(CMLT)(GEOG)(HIST)(SOCI) 2100.
Graduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
The course builds on the foundation from "Introduction to Africa" and provides in-depth and critical analysis of selected contemporary issues affecting Africa. Solidarity, conflict, and their relationships to social hierarchy, the conceptions of history, and African identity then, now plus challenges for Pan-Africanism will dominate the course focus.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)(ANTH)CMLT 4245/6245. Oral Literature in Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ORAL LIT.
Undergraduate prerequisite or corequisite: ENGL 1102.
Survey course presenting orality as major modus of literary and knowledge production in Africa. Presentation of the institutional carriers of orality (storytellers, etc.). Readings in English translation.

(AFST)INTL 4280. Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: NATLSM & ETHNC CONF.
Not open to students with credit in INTL 4420.
Prerequisite or corequisite: INTL 3200 or INTL 3300 or permission of department.
The emergence of nationalist politics, its consequences for sovereignty, and its effect on maintaining peace.

(AFST)MUSI 4291/6291. African Music. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN MUSIC.
Undergraduate prerequisite: Any one of the following courses: MUSI 3020 or MUSI 3021 or MUSI 3210 or MUSI 3220 or AFST(ANTH)(CMLT)(GEOG)(HIST)(SOCI) 2100 or permission of school.
History, styles, and forms of African music. Investigation of historical, cultural and social aspects, contexts and functions, music structures, instruments, genres, structures and indigenous societies, nation-states, and global industry.
Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year.

(AFST)INTL 4355. African Political Systems. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN POL SYSTEMS.
Not open to students with credit in POLS 4340 or INTL 4350.
Prerequisite: INTL 3200 or INTL 3300 or permission of department.
Comparative political issues and themes in Africa; colonialism and colonial legacy, political institutions, political systems, and political culture; transition to and consolidation of democracy.

(AFST)DRAM 4460/6460. History of Dramatic Art: Special Topics. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HIS DRAM ART ABROAD.
The history of dramatic art in the context of studies abroad programs. Must be registered in the Studies Abroad Program and participate on-site. Offered only in conjunction with Studies Abroad.
Non-traditional format: Must be registered in the Studies Abroad program and participate on-site.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)ANTH 4461/6461. African Ethnography. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN ETHNOGRAPHY.
Undergraduate prerequisite: ANTH 1102 or ANTH 2120H.
The peoples of Africa and the process of researching and writing ethnography. Part one reviews classic/canonical ethnographic readings and concepts from the colonial period. Part two involves ethnography of colonialism. Part three details the post-colonial experience.

(AFST)DRAM 4470/6470. African Theatre: An Historical Overview. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN THEATRE.
Undergraduate prerequisite: AFST(ANTH)(CMLT)(GEOG)(HIST)(SOCI) 2100 or DRAM 2000 or DRAM 3200.
Graduate prerequisite: Permission of department.
The course will survey some of the major areas of theatre activity, as well as provide a general history of African theatre and performance. Playwrights well known in the West, such as Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa thiong'o, Femi Osofisan, and others will be discussed, primarily within the context of their contributions to African theatre on the continent itself.
Offered spring semester every year.

(AFST)HIST 4500/6500. Studies in African History. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: STUDIES AFRICAN HIS.
Topics in modern and ancient African history. Non-traditional methodologies and sources are combined to introduce students to emerging issues in African history.
Offered every year.

(AFST)YORB 4501. Special Topics in Yoruba. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SPECIAL TOPICS YORB.
Not open to students with credit in YORB 4510.
Prerequisite: Permission of department.
Seminar focusing on specific topics in Yoruba language, culture, literature, or society.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)HIST 4510/6510. History of Famine and Food Systems in Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN FOOD SYSTEM.
African agricultural achievement, theories of production and famine systems, and attempts by colonial and international capital to control African food systems. Literature is a major source.
Offered every year.

(AFST)HIST 4540/6540. Conflict in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFR CONFLICT 20TH C.
South Africa's economic, political and military might has shaped other southern African societies (Namibia, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, and Mozambique) in the twentieth century. Reform and revolution which Africans and Europeans employed to regain and maintain African independence in the region.
Offered every year.

(AFST)HIST 4550/6550. Christianity and Colonialism in Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: CHRISTIA/COL IN AFR.
Christianity was both ally and adversary to colonialism, threatening African "tradition" and aiding a vocal westernized elite which shaped independent African nations. African initiatives in Christian conversion, colonial Christianity, Africans in mission communities, mission education and westernized elites, independent African religious movements, and Christianity and African nationalism.
Offered every year.

(AFST)RELI 4625/6625. Eschatology in African Religion. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFREL ESCATH.
Undergraduate prerequisite: RELI(AFST) 1200 or third-year student standing or permission of department.
Examination of African doctrines, death, muses of death, categories of death, rites, final judgment, reincarnation, and the ancestral cult.
Offered every year.

(AFST)INTL 4680. Peace Studies. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: PEACE STUDIES.
Prerequisite or corequisite: INTL 3200 or INTL 3300 or permission of department.
Examines the premise that peace is more than the absence of conflict. The threats to peace, conflict resolution, and peacemaking.
Non-traditional format: This course is also offered through University System of Georgia Independent and Distance Learning (IDL).

(AFST)ALDR(LACS) 4710/6710. International Agricultural Development. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: INTERNATIONAL AGDEV.
Not open to students with credit in ALDR(AFST) 5700/7700.
Analysis of international development programs, stressing the developing world's perspective. Study of issues affecting international cooperation, agricultural development and sustainability, technology transfer, and extension education.
Non-traditional format: Course dynamics emphasize case studies, discussions, and group projects. Students in AFST and LACS will focus their term assignments in their region of interest.
Offered fall semester every year.

(AFST)AAEC 4720. Food Security, Economic Development, and the Environment. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: FOOD ECON DEV ENV.
Prerequisite: AAEC 2580 or ECON 2106.
Many contemporary economic development problems share a strong economic component. The objectives of this course are to provide economic background and insights into the global food and fiber industry within unique physical and business environments.
Offered fall semester every year.

(AFST)KINS 4800/6800. Education and Sport. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: EDUC AND SPORT.
Not open to students with credit in PEDS 4800/6800.
Indigenous and introduced educational and sporting systems, comparative perspectives based on European-derived models in education, physical education and sport in Africa. Examination of education, physical education, and sport in varying cultural, social, and geographical environments including entrepreneur sport business activities and sport communications and participation. Postmodern, postcolonial, and globalization theories.
Offered summer semester every year.

(AFST)MUSI 4861/6861. Applied Ethnomusicology: African Music. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 4 hours credit.
Oasis Title: APPLIED AFR MUS.
Performance of African music, including styles, techniques, and movement in instrumental and vocal music. Repertoire for study and performance drawn from various regions and cultures on a rotating basis.
Offered fall semester every even-numbered year.

(AFST)CMLT 4880/6880. Survey of African Literature I. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN LIT I.
African literature from its ancient oral traditions to the European colonial period based on works of African authors written in English and English translations of the African works.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)CMLT 4890/6890. Survey of African Literature II. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFRICAN LIT II.
African literature since the independence of the African people from European colonial rule.
Not offered on a regular basis.

AFST 4900. Service Learning in Africa. 3-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit.
Oasis Title: SERV LRN AFRICA.
Prerequisite or corequisite: AFST 3900.
Students will participate with local agencies to provide a service to the community, designed with those agencies and UGA faculty, to meet the needs of that community and to enhance the academic curriculum of the student. There will be structured time to study and reflect on the basic issues involved.
Non-traditional format: Student will be working in the community, and studying with UGA faculty and local agency officials to both understand the issues relating to the need for their service, and to provide that service in an effective way. The work hours will be determined by the local agencies involved. Supplemental readings and discussions with both local service providers and UGA faculty will enhance the student�s experience and understanding of the issues.

AFST 4950/6950. Africa Seminar. 1 hour. Repeatable for maximum 3 hours credit.
Oasis Title: AFRICA SEMINAR.
Review and discussion of current topics in African research.
Offered fall and spring semesters every year.

AFST 4960H. Directed Reading and/or Projects (Honors). 3 hours.
Oasis Title: DIRECT READ OR PROJ.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Individual study, reading, or projects under the direction of a project director.
Non-traditional format: Professor and student will meet as needed. Application must be made through the Center for Undergraduate Research Opportunities (CURO) and the Honors Program office.
Not offered on a regular basis.

AFST 4990H. Honors Thesis. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: HONORS THESIS.
Prerequisite: Permission of Honors.
Individual research in the major field or in a closely related field.
Non-traditional format: Professor and student meet as needed.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)HIST 6531. Africans in the Americas. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: AFR IN THE AMERICAS.
Fifteenth- to nineteenth-century political, social, economic connections between North, Central, South America and Caribbean and west, west-central Africa.
Offered every year.

(AFST)CMLT 8020. Seminar in Literary Periods. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit.
Oasis Title: LITERARY PERIODS.
Specific literary period from an international perspective, with emphasis on theoretical problems in periodization and the relationship of literature to other cultural institutions.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)CMLT 8030. Seminar in Literary Genres. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 18 hours credit.
Oasis Title: LITERARY GENRES.
Major genre, the epic in the literatures of Europe and America, with particular attention to recent developments in genre theory.
Not offered on a regular basis.

(AFST)INTL 8345. Comparative Politics of Sub Saharan Africa. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: COM POL SUB SAH AFR.
Prerequisite: INTL 6300 or permission of department.
Comparative political issues and themes in Africa; colonialism and colonial legacy, political institutions, political systems, and political culture; transition to and consolidation of democracy.

(AFST)EFND 8410. Education in the Black Diaspora: Identity, Community, and Contestation. 3 hours.
Oasis Title: ED IN BLK DIASPORA.
Exploration of themes linking peoples of Africa and African heritage in Africa, the Americas, and Europe. Topics to be explored include Black Diaspora identity, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, comparative slavery, African cultures and African survivals in the New World, and the Pan-African Movement.