Courses

0-99 Advanced Placement Credit; House Courses; First-Year Seminars; First-Year Writing; Registrar/Department special purpose
100-199 Introductory-level undergraduate courses; basic skills/activity courses; foundation courses; Focus program courses
200-399 Undergraduate courses above introductory level
400-499 Advanced undergraduate, senior seminars, capstone courses, honors thesis courses
500-699 Graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates
700-999 Graduate only courses (not open to undergraduates)

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Number Title Codes
AAAS 89S First-Year Seminar
AAAS 102 Introduction to African American Studies CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 103 Introduction to African Studies (DS3 or DS4) CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 104 Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South CCI, ALP, SS
AAAS 104S Introduction to Latino/a Studies in the Global South CCI, ALP, SS
AAAS 109S African Mbira Music: An Experiential Learning Class CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 110S Embodied Blackness
AAAS 133S Gateway Seminar: Civil Rights and Asian Americans CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AAAS 134 Old Worlds/New Histories, 500-1500 CE CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 139 History of Rock: Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll to Indie Rock and Hip-Hop ALP, CZ
AAAS 140 Introduction to Jazz CCI, ALP
AAAS 146 Motown and American Soul Music CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 163S Gateway Seminar: Gandhi, King, Mandela CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AAAS 171 Business Anthropology: Anthropologists in the Workplace CCI, SS
AAAS 173S The Ways and Wisdom of First-Gen College Students CCI, R, SS
AAAS 180S Gateway Seminar: The History of he U.S. South CCI, R, W, SS
AAAS 182S The Law in Slavery and Freedom CCI, R, W, ALP, CZ
AAAS 185S African Hashtag Activism CCI, STS, CZ
AAAS 188 Black Music and the Soul of America CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 190 Special Topics
AAAS 190A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Special Topics in African & African American Studies
AAAS 190FS Focus Program Seminars: Special Topics
AAAS 190S Special Topics
AAAS 196FS Patient and Research Participant Activism and Advocacy STS, W, SS
AAAS 201 Race, Film, and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 207 African Americans Since the Civil War CCI, EI, CZ
AAAS 209 Afro-Brazilian Culture and History CCI, R, CZ
AAAS 210 Modern Africa CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 211 Anthropology of Money CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 213 Global Brazil CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 214S South African Past and Present CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 215S Slave Society in Colonial Anglo-America: The West Indies, South Carolina, and Virginia CCI, R, CZ
AAAS 216S Gender and Slavery in the Americas CCI, EI, W, CZ
AAAS 217S The Atlantic Slave Trade CCI, R, CZ
AAAS 218 The Caribbean, 1492-1700 CCI, CZ
AAAS 219 War, Slavery, and Revolution in the Caribbean, 1700-1800 CCI, CZ
AAAS 220SL West African Rootholds in Dance CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 221SL Capoeira: Practice and Culture CCI, W, ALP, SS
AAAS 222 Dance and Religion in Asia and Africa CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 224 African Diaspora Literature: Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Black Writers CCI, EI, W, ALP, CZ
AAAS 225S Documenting Black Experiences CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 226 Crime and the City from Dickens to The Wire CCI, EI, ALP, SS
AAAS 226D Crime and the City from Dickens to The Wire CCI, EI, ALP, SS
AAAS 227 African American Art CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 228S Fictions That Mark the Moment CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 229S Performing African Diaspora CCI, W, ALP
AAAS 230 The South in Black and White CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 230S The South in Black and White CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 231S Documenting Black Power: Writing the History of the African American Freedom Struggle CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 232 Race, Power, and Identity: From Ali to Kaepernick CCI, EI, R, SS
AAAS 233S Writing American Politics EI, R, W, CZ, SS
AAAS 234S Comparative Urban Politics and Policymaking CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 236S Civil/Human Rights Activism: In the Spirit of Pauli Murray CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 237S Advanced Research Seminar in Urban Politics and Policymaking CCI, R, W, SS
AAAS 238S Activism & Christianity in Modern America CCI, EI, W, CZ
AAAS 239 Racial Attitudes, Racial Prejudice, and Racial Politics CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 240 The Modern Caribbean after Emancipation CCI, CZ
AAAS 242S Race, Gender, and Sexuality CCI, SS
AAAS 243 The Civil Rights Movement CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 245S Activism, Women, and Danger: Documenting Race, Gender and Activism in the American South CCI, EI, R, SS
AAAS 246 Sociology of Racism in America CCI, EI, R, SS
AAAS 247S Social Movements and Social Media CCI, EI, STS, ALP, CZ
AAAS 248 Hip Hop and Religion CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 249 Martin Luther King and the Prophetic Tradition CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AAAS 250FS Global 'Mixed Race' Studies CCI, EI, STS, SS
AAAS 251 The Anthropology of Race CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 252S Giants of Jazz: A Journey into the Lives and Music of the Masters of Jazz Music CCI, ALP
AAAS 253S Independent African American Cinema CCI, ALP
AAAS 256 Race in the 20th Century U.S. CCI, SS
AAAS 257 Introduction to Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics CCI, SS
AAAS 258 Studio Pop: Histories & Sounds, 1960s to 80s
AAAS 261D Race, Genomics, and Society EI, STS, NS, SS
AAAS 263 Black Europe: Race, Ethnicity and Diaspora in Contemporary Europe CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 263S Black Europe: Race, Ethnicity and Diaspora in Contemporary Europe CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 264 Latin American Wars of Independence CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 269 Black Gods and Kings: Priests and Practices of the Afro-Atlantic Religions CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 270S Religion in Black America CCI, CZ
AAAS 271 Humanitarianism in Africa CCI, EI, CZ
AAAS 274S Islam in the Americas CCI, W, CZ, SS
AAAS 276 Religion and Race CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 276S Religion and Race CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 283S Death, Burial, and Justice in the Americas
AAAS 283SL Death, Burial, and Justice in the Americas EI, SS
AAAS 285S Nigeria: A Modern History CCI, CZ
AAAS 286S Critical Pedagogy of Hip Hop CCI, EI, ALP, SS
AAAS 290 Special Topics
AAAS 290A Duke-Administered Study Abroad: Advanced Special Topics in African & African American Studies
AAAS 290S Special Topics
AAAS 295S Black Muslims: Race, Religion, & Culture CCI, CZ
AAAS 304S Black Politics SS
AAAS 306 Africa and Arabia: Cultures, Communities, and Connections CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 307 Development and Africa CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 310 African American Women and History CCI, CZ
AAAS 310S Conflict Analysis in Africa (Case Studies) CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 312 War and Public Health in Africa CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 314 Representing Slavery CCI, EI, ALP, SS
AAAS 315 Africa, Youth and Democracy CCI, R, SS
AAAS 316S Apartheid South Africa and Struggles for Democracy CCI, EI, R, CZ, SS
AAAS 317S Africa before Colonialism CCI, R, W, CZ, SS
AAAS 318SA New York Scenes R, ALP
AAAS 319 East Africa and the World CCI, R, W, CZ
AAAS 320 Black Dance CCI, R, W, ALP
AAAS 321 Visualizing the Caribbean CCI, R, ALP, SS
AAAS 322S James Baldwin and Toni Morrison CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 323S The Black Parades: African Diaspora Parade Culture and Radical Resistance CCI, ALP, SS
AAAS 325S Introduction to Hip-Hop Production EI, STS, ALP
AAAS 326S Race and Memory in the Americas CCI, FL, ALP
AAAS 327S Brazil, Race, Sex, and the Body CCI, CZ
AAAS 329 The Black Atlantic CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 331 Black Popular Culture CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 332 Black Theater Workshop CCI, ALP
AAAS 333S The Wire CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 335 The History of Hip-Hop CCI, ALP
AAAS 336 The Black Performance Tradition: Michael Jackson and Prince CCI, ALP
AAAS 337 Hollywood and Africa: Case Studies in Filmic Representation CCI, W, ALP
AAAS 338 Popular Representations of Black Masculinity CCI, ALP
AAAS 339S Women and Film: Directors of the Diaspora CCI, ALP
AAAS 341S Race in Durham CCI, R, SS
AAAS 342 The Civil War and Reconstruction: The United States, 1850-1880 CZ, SS
AAAS 343 Displacements: Migration and Human Trafficking CCI, EI, R, ALP, SS
AAAS 345 African Americans, Mass Incarceration and Citizenship CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 346S Racial Justice in the 20th Century US and South Africa CCI, R, W, CZ, SS
AAAS 347S White People: In Anthropological Perspective CCI, R, CZ, SS
AAAS 348 African Art: From Royal Court to Contemporary Marketplace CCI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 349S Contemporary South Africa CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 350S Law and Literature: Race Matters CZ, SS
AAAS 352 Pigging Out: The Cultural Politics of Food CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 354S Race and Society: South Africa and the US, 1890-present CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 359S Brazil and Lusophone Africa
AAAS 375S The Insurgent South: Movements for Social Change CZ, SS
AAAS 380 France and Africa: The Politics and Culture of (Post-)Coloniality CCI, CZ
AAAS 380P France and Africa: The Politics and Culture of (Post-)Coloniality Preceptorial
AAAS 385S Race, Gender and Culture of the African Diaspora CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 386S Women and Visual Media Studies CCI, ALP
AAAS 387 Moral Panics, Spectacle, and Everyday Life: Social Anxieties and Minorities CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 390 Special Topics
AAAS 390S Special Topics
AAAS 391 Independent Study
AAAS 393 Research Independent Study R
AAAS 397S African Cities, Development, and Climate Change CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 399 Black Religion, Anguish, and Liberation
AAAS 405S Black Thought and Creativity to 1865 CCI, ALP
AAAS 406S South African Life Histories CCI, R, W, CZ
AAAS 407S Capstone Seminar - Globalization: Asia and Asian America CCI, R, STS, CZ, SS
AAAS 408S Capstone Seminar: Post-Civil Rights America: The Search for Social Justice, 1968-Present EI, R, W, CZ
AAAS 409 Surviving Globalization: The Global South and the Development Imagination CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 409S Capstone Seminar: The Age of Jim Crow: Racial Segregation from Plessy (1896) to Brown (1954) EI, R, W, CZ
AAAS 410S Black Frame: African American Documentary Film CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 411D Black (In) Translation
AAAS 419S Meaning, Mattering, and Black Being-in-the-World: Towards a Critical Theory of Race and Value CCI, W, CZ
AAAS 420S The Role of Race and Culture on Development CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 422S Music and The Black Radical Imagination CCI, W, ALP
AAAS 425 Global Inequality Research CCI, R, ALP, SS
AAAS 425S Global Inequality Research Seminar CCI, R, ALP, SS
AAAS 430 Music History and Politics in Contemporary Africa CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 450S The Global Caribbean CCI, EI, R, SS
AAAS 451S Capstone Seminar: African Americans and the World CCI, R, W, CZ, SS
AAAS 465S Global Cities CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 470S Law and Power in Africa and the African Diaspora CCI, R, W, SS
AAAS 490 Special Topics
AAAS 490S Special Topics
AAAS 491 Independent Study
AAAS 493 Research Independent Study R
AAAS 495 Distinction Program Sequence R
AAAS 496 Distinction Program Sequence R
AAAS 499S Senior Seminar
AAAS 503S The Black Radical Tradition: COVID-19, #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd, and the Movement for Black Lives CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 510S Global Africa CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 511S Dystopia, Speculation, and the Transhuman: Octavia Butler CCI, EI, ALP
AAAS 512S The Fetish: The Role of Things in Spiritual, Economic, and Sexual Life CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 515S Race, Class, and Gender: A Social History of Modern (1750-present) Britain CCI, EI, CZ, SS
AAAS 520S Harlem Renaissance CCI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 530S Third Cinema CCI, EI, STS, ALP, SS
AAAS 531S Black Camera: Still and Moving Images CCI, ALP
AAAS 539 Black Camera: Still and Moving Images EI, ALP
AAAS 544S Race and American Politics CCI, SS
AAAS 545S Race, Racism, and Democracy CCI, W, SS
AAAS 548S Poverty, Inequality, and Health EI, R, SS
AAAS 551S Race and Ethnicity CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 569 Understanding Sickle Cell Disease: A Biopsychosocial Approach
AAAS 570S Philosophy in Motion: Corporeality, Gesture, and Movement in Modern Thought CCI, R, W, ALP
AAAS 571S Introduction to Contemporary African Philosophy
AAAS 581S Sylvia Wynter and the Question of Caribbean Philosophy
AAAS 589S Black Visual Theory CCI, EI, R, ALP, CZ
AAAS 590S-5 Topics in African Art
AAAS 602S Blackness, Social Death, and the Volatile Sacred CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 610S Africa, Cuba, Brazil: Great Powers of the Black Atlantic CCI, CZ, SS
AAAS 620S AfroFuturism ALP
AAAS 621S Black Performance Theory CCI, R, ALP
AAAS 622S Black Sonic Culture—Analog to Digital
AAAS 640S African Cities CCI, SS
AAAS 641S Citizen and Subject in a Neoliberal Age CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 642 Global Inequality Research CCI, R, SS
AAAS 642S Global Inequality Research Seminar CCI, R, SS
AAAS 643S Black Women, Black Freedom CCI, EI, ALP, CZ
AAAS 646 Surviving Globalization: The Global South and the Development Imagination CCI, EI, SS
AAAS 650S Black-Queer CCI, R, ALP
AAAS 660 Health in the African Diaspora CCI, EI, STS, SS
AAAS 690 Special Topics
AAAS 690S Special Topics
AAAS 699S Gateway/Proseminar
AAAS 720S Outsiders and Insiders
AAAS 735 The History of Hip-Hop
AAAS 740S Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics
AAAS 741S Globalization
AAAS 747S Visual Culture of Black Appalachia: Race, Place and Resilience
AAAS 767S How Blackness Thinks
AAAS 780S Teaching Race, Teaching Gender
AAAS 890 Special Topics
AAAS 890S Special Topics
AAAS 891 Special Readings
AAAS 892 Independent Study
AAAS 900S African American Religion Through the Literary Imagination