African Studies Minor Course List, 2025-2026

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Summer 2025

  • A/HI 451: African Textiles: Shaping Culture Through Cloth (Kerman) Online/Async
  • SOC 366: Colonialism, Slavery & Links to Contemp Racism (Feinberg) Online/Async

Fall 2025

  • FAIR 210A: World Issues (Akinrinade) MW 11.00-1.20
  • FAIR 334C: International Human Rights (Akinrinade) MW 3.00-5.20
  • HIST 301: Doing History: Africa (Zimmerman) TR 12:00-1:50
  • HUMA 276: Humanities Of Africa (Watkins) MWF 11.30-12.50
  • PLSC 308: African Political Systems (Dupuy) MWF 11.30-12.50
  • SOC 366: Colonialism, Slavery & Links to Contemp Racism (Feinberg) MWF 11.30-12.50

Winter 2026

  • A/HI 250: Arts of Africa Pre-1900 (Kerman) TR 1.00-2.20
  • ENG 333: Global Literatures: Scribes and Griots (Wise) TBD
  • ENG 335: Texts Outside of America and Europe: Senegal (Wise) TBD
  • ENG 337: Travel Writing in the Sahel (Wise) TBD
  • ENG 408: Global Literatures: Senegal (Wise) TBD
  • HIST 285: African History to 1800 (Zimmerman) MWF 11.30-12.50
  • HIST 387: Africa Since The 1960s (Zimmerman) MWF 2.30-3.50
  • HNRS 350: French Connections (Smith) TR 12.00-1.20
  • HUMA 362: Islam in the Indian Ocean World (Miran) TR 10.00-11.50
  • REL 342/HIST 390: Islam and Muslim Societies in Africa (Miran) TR 2.00-3.50

Spring 2026

  • A/HI 251: Arts of Africa after 1900 (Kerman) TR 1.00-2.20
  • A/HI 381: African Art and Politics (Kerman) TR 10.00-11.50
  • FAIR 210A: World Issues (Schwandt) MW 12.00-2.20
  • HIST 286: African History 1800 – Present (Zimmerman) TR 2.00-3.50
  • HIST 490: Public History: Memory in African History (Zimmerman) TR 12.00-1.50
  • SOC 366: Colonialism, Slavery & Links to Contemp Racism (Feinberg) Online/Async

Contact

Prof. Jonathan Miran Jonathan.Miran@wwu.edu
African Studies Minor Advisor and Coordinator
Department of Global Humanities and Religions
Bond Hall 166

A/HI: Art History
SOC: Sociology
FAIR: Fairhaven
HIST: History
HUMA: Humanities
PLSC: Political Science
ENG: English
REL: Religion

5/20/2025