SOC 222

Spring 2026

Part of Term 1
Jan 20-May 6
Introduction to Modern Africa
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Credit: 3 hours.

Same as AFST 222, ANTH 222, and PS 242. See AFST 222.

This course satisfies the General Education Criteria in Fall 2022 for:

Cultural Studies - Non-West
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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
56393
Discussion/
Recitation
Lecture
A
A
1:00PM -1:50PM
1:00PM -1:50PM
F
MW
307 Gregory Hall
307 Gregory Hall
Toure, V
Toure, V
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/20/26-05/06/26
Degree Notes:
Cultural Studies - Non-West course.
Section Info:
Modern Africa has sustained the most rapid and profound changes of any continent in the world. Indeed, the African continent saw its social systems, economic structures, political organizations, and religious and cultural practices profoundly transformed by centuries of European imperialism. Yet, Africa is still largely known in the United States through exotic images of the cultural “other,” decimated by civil wars, clan violence, famine, and HIV/AIDS. This course goes beyond these images and stereotypes to place Africa and its people within the shared history of an increasingly global world. The course will utilize an interdisciplinary framework to examine the great civilizations of pre-colonial African societies; the trans-Atlantic slave trade; the impact of colonialism, nationalism, Pan-Africanism, and nationalist and independence movements; social movements and democratization; gender and development; the role of the African Diaspora in Africa's development; and globalization. This course fulfills a general education requirement for Cultural Studies: Non-Western and American Minority Cultures, as well as Social Science.
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