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Graduate Record 2024-2025

AAS 7310 - The Imperial Encounter in Africa


Effective Date 01/01/2021
This course studies the concept of the “imperial encounter” in Africa – what it involved, who it exploited, and why today we still grapple with its legacies. This class analyzes the concept of “the encounter” in the period between 1450 and 1950 using a variety of sources: literature, poems, films, maps, voyagers’ accounts, artwork, and scholarly works by historians.

Credits: 3
Grading Basis Student Option