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2025-2026 Academic Year

Fall 2025

AFST 170 African Civilizations to 1850
Cross-listed with HIST 170-01.

HIST 170 African Civilizations to 1850
Cross-listed with AFST 170-01.

AFST 220 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Cross-listed with HIST 274-01. The peaceful transition from apartheid to democracy in South Africa in the early 1990s was widely hailed as the "South African Miracle." This course asks why such a transition should be considered miraculous. In order to answer our question, we will begin with South African independence from Britain in 1910 and study the evolution of legalized segregation and the introduction in 1948 of apartheid. After reviewing opposition movements we will move to a discussion of the demise of apartheid and the negotiated political order that took its place. We will examine the machinery and the deliberations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, and debate its accomplishments. The course ends with an examination of memory and history.

HIST 274 The Rise and Fall of Apartheid
Cross-listed with HIST 274-01.

Spring 2026

AFST 100 Intro to Africana Studies
Cross-listed with LALC 121-01.

LALC 121 Intro to Africana Studies
Cross-listed with AFST 100-01.

AFST 171 African History since 1800
Cross-listed with HIST 171-01.

HIST 171 African History since 1800
Cross-listed with AFST 171-01.

HIST 204 Intro Historical Methodology
Local archives and libraries serve as laboratories for this project-oriented seminar that introduces beginning majors to the nature of history as a discipline, historical research techniques, varied forms of historical evidence and the ways in which historians interpret them, and the conventions of historical writing. Prerequisite: one previous course in history.