ALST

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

An introduction to the interdisciplinary study of Africa and to the African Studies major and minor at Colgate. The goal is to introduce students to a major world area with which many, even highly educated, Westerners are unfamiliar. Africa is the original home of the human species, and the intellectual contributions of the continent and its people to the concept of a common humanity are tremendous, including agricultural and industrial technologies, artistic and aesthetic principles, and religious and philosophical ideas. Due to early patterns of globalization and European colonization in the western hemisphere, the Atlantic slave trade, and ultimately colonialism on the continent itself, Africa was configured as "the Dark Continent" in European discourses of the nineteenth century. Crosslisted: CORE C189 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

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None

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None

An introductory course to the field of African American studies. It is interdisciplinary and utilizes materials drawn from the fields of history, sociology, literature, social psychology, and political science. The course seeks to acquaint students with the cutting-edge work in this area and gives students a broad understanding of the place and contributions that African Americans have made to society in the United States.

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ALST

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1

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1

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Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the field of Caribbean Studies. It uses literature, film, and the music of the region to explore the historical, societal, cultural, political, and economic development of the Caribbean. It also explores gender issues in the region. It is one of the required courses for students who seek to participate in the West Indies Study Group. Crosslisted: CORE C163 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Junior, Senior Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation or Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

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1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

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None

Learn to play Andean music, focusing primarily on flute and panpipe genres from the indigenous Aymara regions of Bolivia. Students will also learn about the performance contexts in which these traditions are produced. Conducted bilingually in English and Spanish. However, no prior experience is required in music or in the Spanish language. Students are encouraged to take the course for the experience of immersion in musical and Spanish language practices. Students will work towards a public performance of this music during the Bolivian musicians' residency. Additionally, students who have existing musical skills may choose to learn other Bolivian genres that utilize European-based instruments. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

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0.5

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0.5

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

An introduction to major political and social transformations across the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking countries of the Americas, covering the period from 1800 to the present. Students build foundational knowledge on movements for independence, postcolonial struggles for sovereignty, efforts at national building, and revolutions and political violence. Students learn about major figures from throughout the region from Benito Juárez to Che Guevara and Rigoberta Menchú. The course equally emphasizes the experiences of ordinary people, particularly members of marginalized groups such as Indigenous

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Examines representations of African, African diasporic, and Latin American family structures and the role of the family as means of survival against systemic oppressions. Through the study of contemporary literature, film, and other media students analyze how each of these communities conceptualize family, the stifling or protective roles that patriarchal models of family play in different societies, and unconventional family structures that emerge when family relations enhance, instead of assuage, the damaging effects of racism, misogyny, and queerphobia for its members. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Examines the political dynamics of race in American society, focusing primarily on the experience of blacks as a socio-political group and to a lesser degree on that of other racial and ethnic minorities. The overriding theme is how race has influenced American politics and, conversely, how certain political phenomena have shaped the development of race. The specific topics around which the course is organized include the following: the most enduring and predominant racial issue - racial inequality; competing explanations for the origins and continuance of racial inequality; leadership approaches and ideologies for redressing the race problem; mass political strategies for dealing with the problem; majority attitudes and opinions regarding racial issues (including racial inequality); and the comparative experience of non-black minorities. These topics, individually and collectively, represent the essence of racial politics. Crosslisted: POSC 212 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents

Subject

ALST

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1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Explores the relationship between African arts, museums, and medicinal and public health systems. Students examine the role played by museums in crafting knowledge and perceptions of African arts through the use of and display of certain objects/subjects and the intersections of those understandings with concepts (and interpretations) of health. The over-arching goal of the course is for students to become critical readers of 'Africa', and the 'Idea' of Africa, in museums and in medicine, and through the use of material culture and ethnographic collections. Crosslisted: MUSE 219 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

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1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Examines the responses of Africans and their descendants to the experiences of enslavement, racism, colonialism, and imperialism from the fifteenth century to the present; and analyzes the impact of the African presence on western "civilization." Students also explore the evolution of an African identity, particularly, an identification with the destiny of the African continent among African descendants in the Diaspora. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Movement in the United States Designed as a historical and interdisciplinary course that provides a deep and thorough examination of the "long civil rights movement" among African Americans and their allies during the 20th and early 21st century United States, with attention to the structure of racial inequality, movement philosophies and strategies, white allies and opponents, relationships to other freedom movements, and the movement's historical legacies with the Black Lives Matter Movement and #SayHerName. Crosslisted: HIST 227 Major/Minor Restrictions: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

An introduction to the development of Latin America's diverse and distinctive cultural heritage and to its contemporary institutions and civilization. The study of pre-Columbian and New World cultures of Spanish and Portuguese America focuses on the interactions of Indian, European, and African cultures and the complexities of what is known as Latin American culture. The course, though not a historical survey, examines the historical origins of contemporary social, cultural, economic, and political issues in Latin America, and in those parts of the world that have been affected by significant numbers of Latin American immigrants. The approach is broadly multidisciplinary, reflecting various perspectives and materials. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No Senior Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Examines modern and contemporary art and visual culture in Latin America within the context of diasporic experience, transnational migration, Indigeneity, and the ongoing legacies of colonialism. Students consider a wide variety of media, including films, graphic arts, texts, and exhibitions with an eye toward the local and global events and sociopolitical structures that prompted their production--especially waves of colonial independence, Pan-Americanism, World War II, the cultural policies of the Cold War, and the rise of authoritarian political regimes. Course readings, in-class discussions, and assignments explore the various ways in which artists and artistic practice have defined, resisted, and shaped the idea of Latin America. Students probe the construction of "Latin American art" by adopting a hemispheric and transatlantic lens, exploring the circulation of artists, ideas, and objects and their framing in key exhibitions and institutional collections. Crosslisted: ARTH 232 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Students consider how Ghana has been an active participant in international commerce, politics, and culture, whether as a global source of gold and cocoa, a producer of kente cloth, or pan-Africanism, diasporic culture and politics, or as the "Black Star" state of Africa. Ghana continues to have enormous

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

The three-week extended study component in Ghana will offers students an immersive, wide-ranging experience in Ghana's vibrant lifeways through visits to museums, pristine forests, transatlantic slave dungeons, historical monuments, markets, as well as lectures, opportunities for research, site visits, and exposure to indigenous language, cuisine and culture. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

0.5

Credits (max)

0.5

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Offers a critical and historical examination of the artistic exchanges across the Atlantic — between North America, South America, Europe, and Africa — from 1880 to 1920. Students examine how modern art transformed in reaction and response to radical technological, social, and political change, addressing how industrialization, political and sexual revolution, rapid urban growth, and an expanding consumer culture defined a wide range of visual culture. Students examine painting, drawing, and sculpture alongside the newer media of photography, assemblage, film, and collage. Crosslisted: ARTH 238 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

An introduction to the complex, expansive religious landscape of African American life from the transatlantic slave trade to the contemporary moment. Through an examination of specific traditions, including conjure and other folk religious practices, Black churches, the Nation of Islam, and the emergence of Black, Womanist, and Black Feminist theologies, students gain an understanding of the historical, theological, and aesthetic dimensions that make African American religions distinct. Students also consider how these traditions define broader concepts, such as death, the body, and the natural environment. Crosslisted: RELG 217 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

The Dirty South offers an interdisciplinary exploration of the rich history, cultural and aesthetic traditions, as well as the environmental and architectural landscapes that make up Black southern life in the United States. The course title, which is inspired by the Black southern vernacular phrase for the region, marks the course's focus on the particularly diverse mixture of cross-cultural, diasporic traditions, beliefs and practices that define the south, from Virginia to Texas and all points in between. Course materials include readings that chronicle histories of slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarnation and gentrification, personal narratives that provide insights into historical and contemporary political realities and social movement organizing, and music, film, and visual art that lend an affective window into the sensory, spatial, and creative dimensions of the Black south. In addition to considering the profound social fabric of Black southern life and its larger impact on the United States, students also explore how this culture and region present a generative

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Critique the ways in which "Africa" has been constructed as an object of Western knowledge. The course interrogates how Africa and Africans have been portrayed to outside audiences historically and contemporarily, as well as the socio-political ramifications of such portrayals. Drawing on key texts from the social sciences, the humanities as well as the creative arts, the course explores specific depictions of Africa and Africans. It examines African self-representations alongside representations that focus on Africa as a site of difference or 'othering'. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

A study of Caribbean literature and society post-independence, tracing the conflicts and contradictions inherent in the post-colonial experience. The work of decolonization is at the heart of Caribbean society, and yet the Caribbean post-independence is more than this. It is a complex society still caught up in its self- definition. As it contends with the afterlives of Empire, Caribbean society negotiates identity through discourses of race, class, gender, and sexuality. Students will explore Caribbean literature, film, music, art, and ritual, placing special emphasis on the following themes: migration and diaspora; globalization and violence; music and revolution; religion and other politics. Crosslisted: ENGL 156 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year, Sophomore Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

A study of the dramatization of African American experiences and perspectives, examined through close readings, viewings, and informed discussion of works by current contemporary black American playwrights, scholars, and drama critics. Crosslisted: THEA 273 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Slavery and the slave trade are global phenomena with historical roots in the earliest civilizations. The course examines the long history of slavery and the slave trade in African societies, exploring the role that slavery played in African economic, political, and social life, as well as how the export of human beings as slaves transformed African societies. The course also considers how slaveholders and slaves shaped early African societies, the logic and consequences of African participation in the Atlantic slave trade, the aftermath of abolition in 20th-century colonial Africa, and how coercive forms of labor control have persisted into the 21st century. Crosslisted: HIST 281 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Surveys the history of Africa from the 1880s to the contemporary period. Major themes will include: the imperial scramble and partition of Africa; African resistances; colonial rule in Africa; independence and problems of independence; socio-economic developments in independent Africa; ethnic conflicts; crises and contemporary issues. Crosslisted: HIST 106 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Surveys the history of the growth of anti-colonial nationalism, the end of colonial rule, and post- independence Africa to the contemporary period. It focuses on the comparative analysis of the winning of independence from French, British, Italian, Portuguese, and Belgian colonization. Major themes include African responses to colonial rule, wind of change, independence and problems of independence, pan- African movement, socio-economic developments, cold war, colonial legacies, political systems, and contemporary issues. Crosslisted: HIST 284 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

The Model African Union is an annual national student simulation of the workings of a large multilateral organization, the African Union. Composed of 55 member states, the African Union was constituted in 2000 as the successor to the Organization of African Unity (OAU). Its objectives are to achieve continental integration, similar to that of the European Union, in balance with recognizing the national sovereignty of its member states. The Model African Union is in session for four days in late February, hosted by Howard University in Washington D.C., and students from more than 30 colleges and universities around the country participate. The on-campus portion of the course meets weekly for the five weeks prior to the trip and one week after, for debriefing. Students are assigned to specific country delegations and committees, research and prepare position papers, draft resolutions, debate and vote on action items, and generally take on the roles of African diplomats. The trip includes a visit to the embassy of the country each delegation is representing. May be taken more than once, with different country and committee assignments each year.

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

0.5

Credits (max)

0.5

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

An interdisciplinary exploration of the complex history and experiences of African American women's lives beginning with their enslavement in the United States through the present day. Students investigate the complexities of the social constructions of race, gender, and class as each has shaped African American

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Uses a social scientific approach to examine the circumstances and dynamics characterizing black communities in the contemporary United States. Key areas of inquiry include the operation of major social institutions shaping community life, social class divisions, health and housing prospects, and the ways that the intersections of racial/ethnic identity, class, and gender shape the experiences of community members. Crosslisted: SOCI 321 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

ALST 199 or ALST 202 or SOCI 201 or SOCI 250

Corequisite

None

For more than 30, years Hip-Hop has been one of the most significant cultural identifiers for youth in the United States. Hip-Hop may be one of the largest cultural movements the world has ever experienced – a cultural movement that has influenced everything from the music to which we listen, the clothes with which we adorn ourselves and to, the cars that we drive, the food that we eat and the words we speak. However, Hip-Hop culture is more than the music, the fashion and the style that is popular today. It transcends the commercialized products sold to mainstream U.S. America and the around globe. How so? Why did Hip-Hop emerge? What does mainstream Hip-Hop today represent? How do women fit into this narrative? Through a close examination of critical feminist and queer theory, students explore the cultural and political implications of hip-hop music and culture – specifically its impact on Black sexual politics and gender performance. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

A critical analysis of the cultural, social, political, and economic processes related to the field of global public health in Africa. Taking an anthropological approach, students identify the main actors, institutions, practices, and forms of knowledge production at work in contemporary public health interventions as they have arisen in African contexts. Coursework places current interventions in historical perspective, gauging their benefits as well as any unintended consequences. In addition to garnering an understanding of the background and politics/policies of public health in Africa, students become familiar with how to conduct and produce a "hands-on" needs assessment and community health evaluation. Crosslisted: GPEH 334 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Introduces students to ways of reading and interpreting Jamaican culture using a broad interdisciplinary approach. In keeping with a cultural studies framework, students examine literature, theatre, music, dance, and film as expressions of Jamaican subjectivities and identities. The contexts and conversations out of which these artistic representations have emerged are considered through historical, sociological, and political texts that help to map the larger cultural matrix. Textual explorations are accompanied by field trips and guest lectures (from experts in the various disciplines) with the understanding that Jamaican culture is not fixed but evolving and dynamic, multifarious, and heterogeneous. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

An introduction to the emergent field of Black Girlhood Studies. An interdisciplinary journey, it engages theories, methods, and analytical approaches that recognize the power and potential of Black girlhood. Through interpretive and pragmatic inquiry of Black girls' lives, students will develop and enact an intersectional approach to interrogate the ways power, systems of oppression, and culture mediate girlhood. To expose discrepancies in popularized narratives of Black girls and women in the United States, the course is organized around the tenet of celebration and other foundational concepts and scholars within the field. Drawing on theories and concepts derived from Black feminist thought, budding scholars will approach Black girlhood as a political category of identity and symbol of agency. Working within and beyond hip-hop feminist and womanist frameworks, learning will involve critical thinking and embodiment of theories and practices as produced by Black girls, artists, and scholars. With attention to knowledge and creativity engendered amidst legacies of anti-Black racism and racialized femininity, Corridors of Black Girlhood reveals the contributions of Black girls, girlhood, and Black feminist thought to the expansion of theory, praxis, and power analyses.

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

From ceremonial practice to avant-garde experimentation, dance serves a variety of functions across the African continent and the diaspora. Students will study diverse forms of social and concert dance that have been central to African and African descendent lives through scholarly and embodied approaches. Alongside the study of dance in Africa, retentions and transformations of African dance practices across the diaspora are explored, based on the premise that people of African descent share certain historical and political experiences and relationships to Blackness. Through the study of dance, students will learn how African and Afro-diasporic expressive cultures intersect with broader global phenomena, including colonialism, decolonization, and neocolonialism. Crosslisted: THEA 342 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Human Thought and Expression Liberal Arts Practices: Artistic Practice and Interpretation and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

A methods seminar designed to prepare students to complete interdisciplinary research in Africana and Latin American Studies. Besides gaining a familiarity with key readings within these interdisciplinary fields, students become familiar with how one designs and conducts research in the humanities and social sciences, learning different research methods that can be applied in multiple areas of inquiry. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Designed as a reading seminar, students are introduced to major themes and the ways in which scholars approach them. Students read and discuss several recent books of history and anthropology on varied topics relevant to medicine, health and healing in Africa. These range from historical forms of healing to training African medical students to the history of malaria to the complexity of pharmacological discoveries and patenting to psychiatry and decolonization. Crosslisted: HIST 371 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None Formerly: ALST 351

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Examines a specific Black, Latinx and/or Indigenous intellectual tradition. Through active engagement with theorists and thinkers central to a tradition, students trace their genealogies over time and, at times, across multiple geopolitical spaces. An interdisciplinary lens is used to examine the multiple perspectives which lay the groundwork for as well as expand this tradition. Students encounter archives and counter archives, methodologies, and different kinds of academic material and forms of cultural production. Students are also introduced to classic and paradigm-shifting works in a tradition. This course functions as a bridge towards the senior capstone interdisciplinary research project in the ALST major. Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: No First-year Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

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1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Examines the historical and social changes of the American South from the end of the Civil War throughout the twentieth century. The South, a region left almost destitute following the Civil War, underwent a major transformation which saw enslaved labor replaced with prison labor, industrialization driven by southern progressives who envisioned a "new South" and race relation struggles that would and still do plague the region. Material and visual culture, literature, journalism, music, food, religion, and recreation serve as course materials. Discussions cover a variety of topics including race, class, gender, southern agriculture, Jim Crow, the southern penal system, immigration, the South and the New Deal, southern labor, religion, cultural expressions through jazz, blues, country, and hip-hop, the civil rights movement, Southern conservatism, and voting rights. Crosslisted: HIST 388 Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: Social Relations,Inst.& Agents Liberal Arts Practices: Confronting Collective Challenges and The Process of Writing Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Credits (min)

1

Credits (max)

1

Credit unit

Credits

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None

Provides majors and minors a curricular space to design and carry out research within Africana & Latin American Studies. Taught by members of the program's faculty, students focus on community engagement, interdisciplinarity, and intellectual expansion. While the topic of the capstone seminar will depend on the instructor, student projects are framed as an intervention in or in service of Black and Latinx studies and communities. ALST capstone projects may vary in form–for example, a presentation, artistic project or performance, educational curriculum, portfolio, or thesis; regardless of the format, significant research and critical thinking that showcase the knowledge and skills that students have developed through their program of study is required. Credits: 1.0 Major/Minor Restrictions: Only Africana & Latin Amer Studies Majors and Minors Class Restriction: Only Senior Area of Inquiry: None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

ALST 199 and ALST 381

Corequisite

None

Opportunity for individual study in areas not covered by formal course offerings, under the guidance of a member of the faculty. Credits: variable Major/Minor Restrictions: None Class Restriction: None Area of Inquiry: None Liberal Arts Practices: None Core Component: None

Subject

ALST

Type

course

Edition

2025-2026

Source

catalog.colgate.edu

Prerequisite

None

Corequisite

None