Prerequisites: upper-division standing or consent of instructor

Description: A thematic and topical approach to the study of African history from the early Nile Valley civi- lizations to the twentieth century. Examines the tem- poral and spatial development of African societies— including their social, political, economic, and ideolog- ical systems—during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. F. West African History to 1800; I. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Africa and European Imperialism; J. Ancient Africa; K. Africa from 1000-1880; M. Twentieth-Century Africa. Cross- listed with HIST 137 (E-Z). See the Student Affairs Office in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences for breadth requirement information.