AFRICAN STUDIES Program

    Minor in AFRICAN STUDIES
Spring 2010 course list...
*Note: Not all POLS 103 sections count for AFST credit. 
POLS 359 ST: Global Political Theory with Professor Gordon does offer credit in AFST.
  • The African Studies Minor is comprised of 18 credit hours.
    Three courses (9 credit hours) are required courses and nine credit hours are approved electives courses.

    Required courses are AFST 101: Introduction to African Civilization, HIST 272:Pre-Colonial Africa, and HIST 273: Modern Africa.

    Departmental special topics. tutorials. and independent study courses will also be offered as appropriate.


Course Descriptions


What Can You Do with a Minor in African Studies?
“I am grateful to have found the African
Studies program. I was able to easily
incorporate it into my political science
major, and the distinguished, passionate
African Studies professors offer a
unique perspective from their own
time on the continent. Also, with such
a small department, I have been given
many opportunities to work side-byside
with professors on projects such
as independent studies and the Model
African Union.” Emily Correale ’08

 
JSTOR (Full Text)
Full-text archive of important scholarly journal literature.

Oxford African American Studies Center (Full Text)
Includes the complete texts of Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, The Encyclopedia of African American History, Black Women in America, African American National Biography, and The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature, plus selected articles from many other reference works published by Oxford University Press. The database also includes over 6,000 biographies and over 1,000 images, as well as maps, charts, tables and primary sources with additional commentaries.

Academic Search Premier (Full Text)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database providing full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily.

Infotrac Academic OneFile (Full Text) A source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. Updated daily.

               


Contact:
Tim Carmichael , Program Director
Office: Maybank Hall 326
email: carmichaelt@cofc.edu
Phone: 843-953-7326
College of Charleston
Department of History

FORM: Minor in African Studies (PDF)

The Aluka Digital Library a source for primary source materials about Africa.


College of Charleston Diversity Initiatives Website

SIFE's Technology for Africablog http://techforafrica.blogspot.com/ 

TransAtlantic Slave Trade Database

Harvard 's W.E.B. DuBois Instiutue
interactive AfricaMap (beta)


Daily News on Africa

National Model African Union

African Studies Association: ASA is the leading North American organization that promotes African studies. The ASA is hosted by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey in New Brunswick, New Jersey.