Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AFRICA: ANCIENT THROUGH MODERN

Department: History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Survey examines African History over the longue duree, placing persistent historical problems in contexts that span decades, centuries, and millennia. Includes Bantu expansions, development of food systems, politics of Swahili origins, spread of Islam and Christianity, medieval empires, the rise of stateless political complexity, long-distance trade, slavery, colonialism and independence.