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Full Curriculum and African Studies

Courses

Taught in English

• Introduction to Asante Twi Language (FLL, 3 credits, 100-level, recommended)
• Society, Government and Politics (FLL, 3 credits, 400-level, required)

Arts

• African Dance Forms
• African Dance Performance
• African Philosophy
• African Traditional Ethics
• African Traditional Religion
• African-American Theatre
• Critical Issues in African Literature
• Drama in African Societies
• Drama in Education
• Emerging Theologies in Africa
• French-New Trends in the Francophone African Novel
• Ghanaian Literature
• History of Religions in West Africa
• History of Theatre in Ghana
• Introduction to Dance Cultures of the World
• Islam in West Africa
• Literature of the Black Diaspora
• Music of West Africa
• Musical Traditions of the African Diaspora
• The New Testament and the Contextualization of Christianity in Africa
• Philosophy and Contemporary
• African Experience
• Ritual and Art
• Studies in African Drama
• Studies in African Poetry
• Studies in African Prose
• West Africa Church History

Languages

• Arabic
• Russian
• Spanish
• French
• Swahili

Law

• Ghana Legal System
• Criminal Law
• Public International Law
• International Human Rights Law
• Environmental Law
• Family Law

Science (departments)

• Biochemistry
• Botany
• Chemistry
• Computer Science
• Fisheries and Oceanography
• Geology
• Geography
• Mathematics
• Nutrition and Food Science
• Nursing
• Physics
• Statistics
• Zoology

Social Sciences

• Africa and the Global System
• Africa and the Wider World in the 19th Century
• Africa in the International Setting in the 20th Century
• Art History of Ghana
• Business Management
• Early Civilizations in Africa
• Evolution of Man in Africa
• Geography of Africa
• Ghana’s Foreign Policy
• History of Africa
• The History of Western Medicine in Ghana
• Human Rights in Africa
• Introduction to the Study of Ghanaian Politics
• Islam and Christianity in Africa
• Politics of Developing Countries
• Socialist Thought in Africa
• Societies and Cultures of Africa
• State and Society in Africa
• U.S. Policy Towards Africa
• Women in History