Courses

The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, offers over 1,000 courses with significant Africa-related content (i.e., at least 25 percent).  To search for current courses, see the Coursedog Catalog.

Since inception, the African Studies Initiative (ASI) funded numerous curriculum innovation by Twin Cities faculty and P&A instructors in African Studies and in the four African less commonly taught languages (LCTLs) currently offered at Minnesota:  Arabic, Portuguese, Somali, and Swahili.  ASI Faculty Travel and Curriculum Development Grants, as well as ASI funds designated for African LCTLs and related area-studies instruction in literature, history, and culture, have supported the creation or redesign of over 50 undergraduate, graduate, and professional courses with significant Africa-related content.  These courses, many interdisciplinary, span departments or programs across five colleges and schools: the College of Continuing and Professional Studies; the College of Food, Agricultural, and Natural Resource Sciences; the College of Liberal Arts; the Medical School; and the School of Public Health. With ASI support, faculty and P&A instructors have reimagined approaches to teaching Africa across the disciplines. Faculty curricular innovation, in turn, informs the ASI’s research-based public programming and K–16 outreach—and growing visibility as a regional and national resource hub in African Studies.

ASI-Funded Academic-Year Courses with Significant Africa-Related Content, New or Redesigned: