Students with an interest in the study of Africa can choose from a wide and expanding roster of courses offered by the various departments and disciplines across Columbia. All official course offerings should be confirmed on course bulletins and with academic advisors.
Current Course Offerings
Undergraduate Courses:
- Advanced Swahili I (UN3301)
- Advanced Wolof I (UN3301)
- Advanced Zulu I (UN3301)
- African Communities in New York, 1900 to the Present (BC3770)
- African Dance I (BC2252)
- African Dance II (BC2253)
- East African History (UN2764)
- East African History – Discussion (UN2765)
- Elementary Swahili I (UN1101)
- Elementary Wolof I (UN1101)
- Elementary Zulu I (UN1101)
- Environmental Humanities in the Global South (BC3516)
- Frantz Fanon's Psychology of the Oppressed (BC3160)
- Intermediate Swahili I (UN2101)
- Intermediate Wolof I (UN2101)
- Intermediate Zulu I (UN2101)
- Introduction to African Studies (BC2004)
- Life Beyond Emergency: Ecologies & Inhabitations of Migration (UN2530)
- Theory and Culture (UN3000)
- Women Writers of Contemporary Middle East and North Africa (BC3104)
Graduate Courses:
- Abolition Architecture (GU4305)
- East African History – Graduate Lecture (GR6998)
- Pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and South Asia (GR6171)
- Settlers and Natives (GR6410)
- Theory and Methods I (GR5000)
Archived Course Lists
Undergraduate Courses:
- Advanced Swahili II (UN3302)
- Advanced Yoruba II (UN3102)
- Advanced Wolof II (UN3302)
- Africa Before Colonialism (UN2915)
- African Dance I (BC2252)
- African Dance II (BC2253)
- Elementary Swahili II (UN1102)
- Elementary Wolof II (UN1102)
- Elementary Yoruba II (OC1102)
- Elementary Zulu II (UN1102)
- Intermediate Swahili II (UN2102)
- Intermediate Wolof II (UN2102)
- Intermediate Yoruba II (OC2102)
- Intermediate Zulu II (UN2102)
- The Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), Global Perspective: Europe, Asia, Africa, and Americas (UN3562)
- Introduction to African History: 1700 - Present (BC1760)
- Lagos: From the Pepperfarm to the Megacity (BC3791)
- Unheard Voices: African Women (BC3134)
- Topics in the Black Experience (UN3930)
- Introduction African Diaspora (BC2006)
- Music and Global Africa (GU4438)
- Afro-Cuban Dance (BC2255)
Graduate Courses:
- Family, Household, & History in Africa (GR8770)
- African Development Strategies (U6163)
- Comparative Politics Survey II (GR6412)
- Global Immersion: Development and Democracy: Digging into the Success of Ghana (B8779)
- Global Immersion: Lessons from Rwanda on Conflict, Leadership, and Business Opportunities (B8772)
- Global Immersion: South Africa’s Ongoing Transformation (B8778)
- Global Immersion Tech in Africa: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Nairobi, Kenya (B8708)
- Pan Africanism (GU4154)
- Social Movements and Citizenship in Africa (U6410)
- Sustainable Development in Rwanda (GU4400)
- The Novel in Africa (GU4122)
Undergraduate Courses:
• Advanced Swahili I (UN3301)
• Advanced Wolof I (UN3301)
• Africa Before Colonialism (UN2915)
• African Civilization (UN1020)
• African Climate and History (UN3712)
• African Dance I (BC2252)
• African Dance II (BC2253)
• Anti-Apartheid Solidarity Movement (BC3589)
• Elementary Swahili I (UN1101)
• Elementary Wolof I (UN1101)
• Elementary Zulu I (UN1101)
• Environmental Humanities in the Global South (BC3516)
• Gender & Sexuality In Africa (UN2761)
• Gender, Sexuality, and Power in African History (BC3788)
• Intermediate Swahili I (UN2101)
• Intermediate Wolof I (UN2101)
• Introduction to African Studies (BC2004)
• Life Beyond Emergency: Ecologies and Inhabitations of Migration (UN2530)
• Urban South Africa (GU4142)
Graduate Courses:
• Abolition Architecture (GU4305)
• Building the Engine: Industry + the African Urban Agenda (A6886)
• Environment, Development, & Politics in Africa (U6709)
• Global Immersion: Business and Entrepreneurship in Egypt (B8780)
• Global Immersion: Doing Business in Tunisia (B8707)
• International Seminar: South Africa (B7759)
• Pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and South Asia (GR6171)
• Readings in African Intellectual History (GR6144)
• Settlers and Natives (GR6410)
• South Asians in East Africa, 1750-1970 (GR6150)
• Urban South Africa (GU4142)
Undergraduate Courses:
• A History of African Cities (UN3915)
• Advanced Swahili II (UN3302)
• Advanced Yoruba II (UN3102)
• Advanced Zulu II (UN3102)
• African Civilization (UN1020)
• African Communities in New York, 1900 to the Present (BC3770)
• African Dance I (BC2252)
• African Dance II (BC2253)
• Arts of Africa (UN2500)
• Atlantic Slave Trade (UN2679)
• East Africa and the Swahili Coast (UN3130)
• Elementary Swahili II (UN1102)
• Elementary Yoruba II (OC1102)
• Elementary Zulu II (UN1102)
• Intermediate Swahili II (UN2102)
• Intermediate Yoruba II (OC1202)
• Intermediate Zulu II (UN2102)
• Introduction to African History: 1700 - Present (BC1760)
• Literature and Cultures of Struggle in South Africa (UN3121)
Graduate Courses:
• African Art and Decolonizing (GR8503)
• African France, French Africa (GU4779)
• Black Ecologies (G5029)
• Comparative Politics Survey II (GR6412)
• Doing Business in Africa (B8229)
• Global Immersion: Africa's Consumer Mark (B8779)
• Global Immersion: Lessons from Rwanda on Conflict, Leadership, and Business Opportunities (B8772)
• Global Immersion: South Africa (B8778)
• International Human Rights Law (GR6800)
• Management Consulting Lab (B8701)
• Pan Africanism (GU4154)
• Pre-Atlantic Slavery in Africa and South Asia (GR6171)
• Social Movements and Citizenship in Africa (U6410)
Undergraduate Courses:
• Advanced Swahili I (SWHLW3301)
• Advanced Wolof I (WLOFW3301)
• Africa Before Colonialism (HSMEW2915)
• African Civilization (AFCVC1020)
• African Dance I (DNCEX2252)
• African Economic History (1500-present) (HISTW2757)
• Elementary Swahili I (SWHLW1011)
• Elementary Wolof I (WLOFW1011)
• Gender and Sexuality in Modern African History (HISTW3728)
• Intermediate Swahili I (SWHLW2101)
• Intermediate Wolof I (WLOFW2101)
• Introduction to African Studies (AFRSX2004)
• Major Debates in the Study of Africa (MDESW4160)
• Political History of Contemporary Africa (HISTW2438)
• The Africana Colloquium: Black Futures (AFRSX3110)
• Urban South Africa (MDESW4142)
• War Genocide and Aftermath in Comparative Perspective (MDESW4357)
Graduate Courses:
• Camera in the Tropics (MDESG6625)
• Historiography of Africa (HISTG8761)
• Major Debates in the Study of Africa (ANTHG6412)
• Major Debates in the Study of Africa (MDESW4160)
• Readings in African Intellectual History (MDESG6144)
• Swahili Coast: Issues, Methods, Historiography (MDESG8150)
• Urban South Africa (MDESW4142)
• War Genocide and Aftermath in Comparative Perspective (MDESW4357)
Undergraduate Courses:
• A History of African Cities (UN3915)
• African Civilization (UN1020)
• African Climate and History (UN3712)
• African Communities in New York, 1900 to the Present (BC3770)
• Arab and African Filmmaking (UN2296)
• Arab and African Filmmaking - Discussion (UN2297)
• Atlantic Slave Trade (UN2679)
• Crisis and War in the Horn of Africa (UN3131)
• Introduction to African History: 1700 - Present (BC1760)
Graduate Courses:
• Africa in the World (GR8791)
• African Development Strategies (U6163)
• Arab and African Filmmaking (AF5096)
• Art in the African Diaspora (GR6501)
• Environment, Development, & Politics in Africa (U6709)
• Global Emersion: Africa’s Consumer Market (B8779)
• Histories of Urban Africa: Work, Leisure (GU4142)
• Ifriqiya: Art and Architecture of Tunisia (GR8809)
• International Human Rights Law (GR6800)
• Languages of Africa (GU4171)
• Pan Africanism (GU4154)
• Postcolonial Theory and Decolonization (GU4565)
• Readings in African Masculinities (GR8152)
• Rethinking Freedom in Africa (GU4152)
• Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa (GU4400)
• The Novel in Africa (GU4122)
Undergraduate Courses:
• Africa before Colonialism (UN2915)
• Africa before Colonialism - Discussion (UN2916)
• African Civilization (UN1020)
• African Dance I (BC2252)
• Dance in Africa (BC3550)
• East Africa and the Swahili Coast (UN3130)
• Political History of Contemporary Africa (UN2438)
Graduate Courses:
• African France, French Africa (GU4779)
• Afro-Latin America in the Artistic Imagination (GU4001)
• Black Mediterranean: 1000 Years of Artistic Interaction in the Mediterranean Basin (GU4522)
• Colloquium in Atlantic History (GR8176)
• Comparative Development: East Asia, Other Regions and Lessons of Success (INAF U8246)
• Contemporary African Politics (GU4496)
• Global Immersion: Africa’s Consumer Market – The Case of Ghana (B8779)
• Historiography of Africa (GR8761)
• Impact Measurement and Evaluation for Sustainable Development (INAF U6889)
• Infrastructure Investment and Development (INAF U6051)
• Modern State/Colonial Subject (GR6406)
• Peacebuilding After Mass Violence (INAF U6549)
• Questions in Africa Literature (GU4800)
• Social Movements & Citizenship in Africa (REGN U6410)
• The Maghreb in Transition: Society & Culture in North Africa Since 1990 (GU4321)
• War, Genocide, and Aftermath Comparative Perspective (GU4357)