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AMST - American Studies
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ARTH - Art History
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ASN - Asian Studies
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BLST - Black Studies
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Course Descriptions
> BLST - Black Studies
BLST - Black Studies
BLST 101
Introduction to Black Studies
BLST 142
Joyful Noise! On Black Literature and Musicality
BLST 193
Directed Research
BLST 195
Topics in Black Studies
BLST 197
Independent Study
BLST 201
Black Protest Rhetorics
BLST 207
African American History: Black Americans and the Making of the Nation
BLST 208
African American History II: The Great Migration and the Transformation of American Culture
BLST 218
Black Ecological Thought
BLST 224
James Baldwin in Conversation
BLST 230
Black Britain
BLST 240
Black Women Write Social Justice
BLST 256
Race Women: African American Women's Protest Culture
BLST 263
Du Boisian Social Theory and Analysis
BLST 268
Style Politics: Beauty and Fashion in Black Women's History
BLST 293
Directed Research
BLST 295
Topics in Black Studies
BLST 297
Independent Study
BLST 315
Black Feminist Movements
BLST 318
Waywardness, Fugitivity, and the Anarchism of Blackness
BLST 329
Black Queer Thought
BLST 343
Black Ecology Collaboratory
BLST 346
Beautiful Democracy: 19th Century African American Literature
BLST 360
Toni Morrison and U.S. Imaginative Production
BLST 376
Slavery, Freedom, and American Memory
BLST 377
Afrofuturism
BLST 381
Racial Capitalism: Reading Cedric Robinson
BLST 393
Directed Research
BLST 395
Special Topics in Black Studies
BLST 397
Independent Study
BLST 490
Black Studies Senior Seminar
BLST 497
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