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Advanced Global Health Global Classroom; The Impact of Climate Change on Water and Food Security in Cameroon
Advanced Special Topics in Psychology; Psychology of the Black Experience
Advanced Special Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; The Poetics of the Black Feminist Imagination
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS498B
Advanced Special Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS498M
(Jointly offered as course number HIST360)
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS498M
(Jointly offered as course number AASP498I)
Advanced Topics in Public Policy and the Black Community
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP499M
(Cross listed as JOUR459Z)
Advanced Topics in Public Policy and the Black Community; Covering Social Justice
Advanced Topics in Public Policy and the Black Community; News Coverage of Diversity
African Civilization
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS200
African Civilization to 1800
African Slave Trade
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS310
African, Indian and Caribbean Writers
African-American History to 1865
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS254
(Cross listed as HIST254)
African-American History, 1865 - Present
African-American Literature and Culture
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP298L
(Cross listed as ENGL234)
Offered by the Department of English as course number ENGL234
(Cross listed as AASP298L)
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS234
(Cross listed as ENGL234)
African-American Literature: From Slavery to Freedom
Ancient Slavery and its American Impacts
Applied Anti-Black Racism
Applied Policy Analysis and the Black Community
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS301
Beg Less Commonly Taught Language II; Beginning Swahili II
Offered by the Department of School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures as course number SLLC109F
Beyond Stereotypes: Identity, Power, Representation in Brazil
Black Culture in the United States
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS202
Black Diaspora Literature and Culture
Black Theatre and Performance I
Black Women in United States History
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS314
Business Leadership in a Global Context (BMGT)
Caribbean Literature in English
Changing Geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa
CIEE Arts and Sciences Program in Cape Town, South Africa
Citizenship and Naturalization in America
Colloquial Arabic and Popular Culture; Egypt
Colonial Encounters: Natives, Spaniards, and Africans in the New World
Constructions of Manhood and Womanhood in the Black Community
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS265
Critical Race Theory in Education
Offered by the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership as course number TLPL777
Dance Techniques; Advanced Hip Hop
Directed Readings in African American Studies
Egyptian Art and Archaeology
Egyptian Colloquial Arabic II
Embodied Approaches to Healing from Identity-Based Trauma
Ensemble; Gospel Choir
Experiential Learning
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS386
Explorations in Arts and Humanities; Mapping Biographies of the Enslaved in America
Folksong and Ballad
Francophone Writers of Africa and the African Diaspora
Frederick Douglass's America
Get Out: The Sunken Place of Race Relations in the Post-Racial Era
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS211
Ghana: Climate Solutions in the Global South: Sustainability, Energy, and Green Technology (CHEM)
Ghana: Global Perspectives in Communication Sciences and Disorders (HESP)
Offered by the Department of Hearing and Speech Sciences as course number 11908
Credits may be available as HESP458, HESP659.
Global Dance Forms; Hip Hop
Globalizing the American Revolution
Government and Politics of Africa
Graduate Global Health Global Classroom; The Impact of Climate Change on Water and Food Security in Cameroon
History of Colonial Latin America
History of Popular Music, 1950-Present
History of South Africa
History of Women and Gender in Africa
Hoop Dreams: Black Masculinity and Sport
Intro to Fat Studies: Fatness, Blackness and Their Intersections
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS315
Intro to Research Design and Analysis in African American and Africana Studies
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS210
Introduction to African American Studies
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS100
Introduction to Anti-Black Racism
Introduction to Black Women's Studies
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS263
(Cross listed as WGSS263)
Introduction to Public Policy Topics; 21st Century Racial Justice and Gender from the Bullhorn to the Ballot
Is Black Bad for Your Health? Examining Race as a Risk Factor in Public Health
Kenya: Agricultural Business and Sustainable Food Production (AREC)
Offered by the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics as course number 11906
Credits may be available as AREC306.
Kenya: Global Wildlife Conservation in Africa (GVPT)
Kenya: Integrating Community Engagement, Education, and Technology to Solve Global Challenges (GVPT/CPSP)
Offered by the Department of Government and Politics/College Park Scholars Program as course number 11995
Credits may be available as GVPT308B, CPSP279N.
Kenya: Promoting African Diasporic Health (SPHL/KNES)
Offered by the Department of Public Health/Kinesiology as course number 11969
Credits may be available as SPHL405, SPHL605, SPHL406, SPHL606.
Leadership and the Black Community
Offered by the Department of Higher Ed, Student Affairs, and International Ed Policy as course number HESI421
Leadership in Multicultural Teams for Successful Project Management
Offered by the Department of Education Leadership, Higher Ed and International Ed as course number EDHI788B
Media Coverage of Diversity
Morocco: Gender as a Social Construct in Morocco: An Immersive Experience in Oujda (FREN/WGSS)
Offered by the Department of French/Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number 11965
Credits may be available as FREN269A, WGSS269A, FREN699I.
Open Seminar; Race and Ethnicity
Origin Stories: Case Studies in American Identity
Perspectives on Identity and Culture
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST328K
(Cross listed as AASP398G)
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST328Z
(Cross listed as AASP398J)
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST328Z
(Cross listed as HIST338A)
Perspectives on Identity and Culture; Angela Davis
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST328B
(Cross listed as WGSS379U)
Perspectives on Identity and Culture; Black Baltimore in the Post Racial U.S: African American Urban Culture in the Age of Obama
Popular Music in Black America
Poverty and African American Children
Public Policy and the Black Community
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS101
Race, Reproduction and Rights
Racial Residential Segregation and Health
Racial Trauma and Racial Healing
Research in African-American and Africana Studies
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AASP399
Research in African-American Studies
Research Methods in African American Studies
Researching Race, Gender, Class, and Sport
RM: Uganda: Engineers Without Borders (Nakifuma)
Offered by the Department of Education Abroad/Engineers Without Borders as course number 11883
Science, Technology, and the Black Community
Sea Drinkers': Stories of Migrant Ocean Crossings in African Cinema
Selected Topics in Communication; Rhetoric, Racism, Resistance
Selected Topics in Geography; Changing Geographies of Sub-Saharan Africa
Selected Topics in History; Seven Revolutions in Postwar Africa
Selected Topics in Israel Studies; Black Cultural Activism in Israel
Offered by the Department of Israel Studies as course number ISRL249A
(Cross listed as AASP298J)
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Angela Davis
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AASP398U
(Cross listed as WGSS379U)
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Black Baltimore in the Post Racial U.S: African American Urban Culture in the Age of Obama
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Black Immigrants: Challenges and Impacts
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Black Women in Twentieth Century America
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AASP398J
(Cross listed as WGSS379J)
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AASP398J
(Cross listed as HIST319X)
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; Gender, Labor and Racial Identities in Diaspora Communities
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP398G
(Cross listed as AMST328K)
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; History of Black Education in America
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP398K
(Cross listed as AMST498F)
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP398K
(Cross listed as HIST339K)
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; The Black Power Movement
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP398E
(Cross listed as AASP398E)
Selected Topics in the African Diaspora; The Civil Rights Movement
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP398J
(Cross listed as HIST338A)
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP398J
(Cross listed as AMST328Z)
Selected Topics Public Policy; Development and Security Issues in Africa
Seminar in American Literature; The Color Line and the American 1850s
Seminar in American Politics; Black Politics
Seminar in American Politics; Hidden Figures: Women of Color in Politics
Seminar in American Studies; Black Digitalities
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST628D
(Cross listed as ENGL739A)
Seminar in American Studies; The Poetics of the Black Feminist Imagination
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST628J
(Cross listed as WGSS698B)
Seminar in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies; Black Queer Studies
Offered by the Department of Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Studies as course number LGBT488L
Seminar in the Digital Humanities; Black Digitalities
Offered by the Department of English as course number ENGL739A
(Cross listed as AMST628D)
Seminar in Theory and Practice of Critical Difference; Contemporary History of Black Performance: Theory & Practice
Offered by the Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies as course number TDPS408D
Seminar: Theory and Performance Studies; African American Theatre History
Seminar; Black Discourse and Digital Communication
Seminar; The Algerian Novel
Seminar; Theories, Philosophies, and Revolutionary Texts of the Francophone World
Senior Seminar; Black Cultural Studies
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS488C
Senior Seminar; Blackness, Gender, and Sexuality: Women Writing Self in the African Diaspora
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS488F
Senior Thesis
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS397
SIT Study Abroad Kenya: Global Health and Human Rights
SIT Study Abroad Tanzania: Wildlife Conservation and Political Ecology
Social (In)Justice and African-American Health and Well-Being
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS230
Social Movements and Race
Sociology of Race Relations
Special Research in African-American Studies; Advanced Field Research in African American Politics
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP479A
(Cross listed as GVPT368Q)
Special Topics in African American Studies; Black Cultural Activism in Israel
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP298J
(Cross listed as ISRL249A)
Special Topics in African American Studies; Jazz as a Cultural Art Form
Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Blues and African American Folksong
Special Topics in African American, African, and African Diaspora Literatures; Representing Black Soldiers in American Literature
Special Topics in American Studies; Black Queer Studies
Special Topics in American Studies; Black Women in Twentieth Century America
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST498D
(Cross listed as WGSS379J)
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST498D
(Cross listed as HIST319X)
Special Topics in American Studies; History of Black Education in America
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST498F
(Cross listed as HIST339K)
Offered by the Department of American Studies as course number AMST498F
(Cross listed as AASP398K)
Special Topics in Arabic Studies; Islam in Africa and the African Diaspora
Offered by the Department of Arabic as course number ARAB499J
(Cross listed as AASP498U)
Offered by the Department of Arabic as course number ARAB499J
(Cross listed as HIST429F)
Special Topics in Black Culture; A Critical Understanding of Hip Hop Culture and its Impact on Society
Special Topics in Black Culture; Black Queer Studies
Special Topics in Black Culture; Black Women in Popular Culture: From the Blues to Beyonce
Special Topics in Black Culture; Blackness in Global Perspective
Special Topics in Black Culture; Islam in Africa and the African Diaspora
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP498U
(Cross listed as HIST429F)
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP498U
(Cross listed as ARAB499J)
Special Topics in Black Culture; Race and Sports
Special Topics in Black Culture; Racial Socialization of Children and Adolescents: Theory, Research and Practice
Special Topics in Black Culture; Women and the Civil Rights Movement
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP498I
(Jointly offered as course number HIST360)
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP498I
(Jointly offered as course number WGSS498M)
Special Topics in Dance; Advanced Hip Hop
Special Topics in Education; Critical Race Theory
Offered by the Department of Teaching and Learning, Policy and Leadership as course number TLPL788G
Special Topics in Film Studies; African-American Music in Film
Offered by the Department of English as course number ENGL329Q
(Cross listed as CINE329F)
Special Topics in Government and Politics; Advanced Field Research in African American Politics
Special Topics in History; (Auto)biography and the Black Atlantic: 1700-1865
Special Topics in History; Black Women in Twentieth Century America
Special Topics in History; Black Women in United States History
Special Topics in History; Colonial and Post-Colonial Science Fiction, Afrofuturism, and History
Special Topics in History; From Colonization to Decolonization in North Africa, 1830-1962
Special Topics in History; History of Black Education in America
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST339K
(Cross listed as AMST498F)
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST339K
(Cross listed as AASP398K)
Special Topics in History; Islam in Africa and the African Diaspora
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST429F
(Cross listed as ARAB499J)
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST429F
(Cross listed as AASP498U)
Special Topics in History; Race, Gender, and Power in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Special Topics in History; Slavery Law and Power in the Early Americas and British Empire
Special Topics in History; The Black Power Movement
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST319N
(Cross listed as AASP398E)
Special Topics in History; The Civil Rights Movement
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST338A
(Cross listed as AMST328Z)
Offered by the Department of History as course number HIST338A
(Cross listed as AASP398J)
Special Topics in History; War, Genocide, and Resilience in Africa's Great Lakes Region
Special Topics in Immigration and Migration Studies; Black Immigrants: Challenges and Impacts
Special Topics in Journalism; Race, Journalism, and Democracy in the United States
Offered by the Department of Journalism as course number JOUR459Z
(Cross listed as AASP499M)
Special Topics in National/International Cinemas; African-American Music in Film
Offered by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies as course number CINE329F
(Cross listed as ENGL329Q)
Special Topics in Public Policy; Public Policy Challenges in Africa
Special Topics in Public Policy; Unraveling Segregation's Legacies: 21st Century Policy Challenges of Race, Spatial Location, Opportunity, and Inequality
Special Topics in Sociology; Black Cultural Activism in Israel
Special Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; The Poetics of the Black Feminist Imagination
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS698B
Spike Lee's Joints
Offered by the Department of African American Studies as course number AASP370
(Cross listed as CINE353)
Offered by the Department of Cinema and Media Studies as course number CINE353
(Cross listed as AASP370)
Spotlight on Major Writers; James Baldwin's Non-Fiction
Spotlight on Major Writers; The Literary Genius of Kendrick Lamar
Spotlight on Major Writers; Wright-Ellison-Baldwin
Stealing from the Poor, Giving to the Rich: The Political Economy of Global Capitalism
Sub-Saharan Africa Since 1800
Tanzania: Crossing Continents - Exploring Family Health in Tanzania and the US (FMSC)
Offered by the Department of Family Science as course number 11986
Credits may be available as FMSC470, FMSC670.
The Atlantic World in the Age of Exploration, Conquest, and Settlement
The Black Middle Class
The New Jim Crow: African-Americans, Mass Incarceration and the Prison Industrial Complex
Offered by the Department of African American and Africana Studies as course number AAAS187
The Rhetoric of Black America
Topics in Advanced Writing; Black Technical and Professional Communication
Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Angela Davis
Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; Black Women in Twentieth Century America
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS379J
(Cross listed as AMST498D)
Offered by the Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies as course number WGSS379J
(Cross listed as AASP398J)
UMD Project GO - Meknes, Morocco (ARAB)
UMD-Spring Break: Jamaica: Architecture + The Healthy Community
UMD-Spring Break: Rwanda: Sustainability Leadership in Africa
Offered by the Department of Education Abroad/Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering/Chemical Engineering/Engineering Science as course number 11930