HIST 360 - Early African Civilization

Credit Hours: 4
Frequency of Offering: Offered in alternate years, usually in the fall semester

This course surveys the development of African societies from ancient times to 1800. It seeks to promote an understanding of how Africans produced indigenous and creative solutions to the challenge of creating sustainable societies in a pre-industrial age. The course pays particular attention to Africans’ religious and political concepts, forms of economic and social organization and expressions of music, art and architecture, in the attempt to map the march of civilization on the African continent.