HIST 3650 - Africa and the world

4 Credit Hours

Prerequisites: None.
Corequisites: None.
Pre/Corequisites: None.
Requirements: None.

Description
This interdisciplinary course explores the long and extensive international history of Africa, focusing on its relations with other civilizations and regions of the world, from medieval times to the present. The weekly inter-related and inter-woven topics will include Medieval African Kingdoms and the Trans-Saharan Trade; the Indian Ocean Trade; European colonialism; Africa, the World Wars and the Cold War; African relations with the US, Western Europe and the former USSR; China and India in Africa; the UN and other global IGOs/NGOs in Africa; Africa and the global economy; globalization and Africa; and Africa and the African Diaspora in the Americas. Global Scholars course.