AFRO 498

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Spec Topics African Am Studies

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Seminar on selected topics with particular emphasis on current research trends.

3 undergraduate hours. 4 graduate hours. May be repeated up to a maximum of 6 undergraduate hours or 8 graduate hours. Prerequisite: Upper level AFRO course (300 or above) or consent of instructor.

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AFRO 498 class schedule data for spring 2026
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	63073	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -5:30PM	W	Location Pending	McKinnis, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 4 hours Section Title: Black Religion & Black Studies Section Info: Course Topic: Race, Body, and Being in Black Religious Thought Meets with REL 494 Description: This interdisciplinary seminar enters the conversation of Black Studies through the lens of religion. It commences with the question of being within the context of existential absurdity. That is, we shall interrogate and consider the ontological and anthropological condition of Blackness within the materiality of the absurd as a threat of non-being. We will engage critical race theory, afro-pessimism, and mysticism via a religious studies lens, considering the question of the human, Black being, freedom, and otherwise possibilities and imaginations. Contemplating these issues from the question of religion, participants will engage a wide variety of thinkers such as Albert Camus, Saidiya Hartman, James Cone, Fred Moten, M. Shawn Copeland, and Calvin Warren. Seminar participants will conclude the course having gained a working knowledge of new cartographies in the study of Black religion and Black studies, as well as critical issues facing the intersection of race and religion in North America. This course will meet in the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, room 2020. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.
	43596	Lecture-Discussion	LCM	3:00PM -5:30PM	W	Location Pending	McKinnis, L	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/20/26-05/06/26 Credit: 3 hours Section Title: Black Religion & Black Studies Section Info: Course Topic: Race, Body, and Being in Black Religious Thought Meets with REL 494 Description: This interdisciplinary seminar enters the conversation of Black Studies through the lens of religion. It commences with the question of being within the context of existential absurdity. That is, we shall interrogate and consider the ontological and anthropological condition of Blackness within the materiality of the absurd as a threat of non-being. We will engage critical race theory, afro-pessimism, and mysticism via a religious studies lens, considering the question of the human, Black being, freedom, and otherwise possibilities and imaginations. Contemplating these issues from the question of religion, participants will engage a wide variety of thinkers such as Albert Camus, Saidiya Hartman, James Cone, Fred Moten, M. Shawn Copeland, and Calvin Warren. Seminar participants will conclude the course having gained a working knowledge of new cartographies in the study of Black religion and Black studies, as well as critical issues facing the intersection of race and religion in North America. This course will meet in the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, room 2020.