It is also designed to be the foundation course for students who plan to major in African studies or in other areas in international studies. This course explores the philosophical and intellectual origins of Pan-Africanism in the Diaspora. This course examines the interaction of health, culture, and disease in African affairs, and outline a political economy of health and disease. It includes a broad survey of health status in Africa and identifies social and economic as well as other indicators of health. The course employs an interdisciplinary approach and uses data and material from several areas including anthropology, sociology, epidemiology, an history.
Special attention is paid to the health status of women and children.
This course is an exploration of the dominant themes that have marked the social, political, and cultural discourse of the African-American community over the last 30 years. It identifies and follows trends in thought that have influenced the expressions and actions of the broader community and guided the development of intellectual, cultural, and political movements. This course is an interdisciplinary exploration of the range of interactions that characterize African American and Native American lives in American history. This course begins with a review of the idea of radicalism and its themes from a variety of texts.