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Winter 2025 Courses

Visit classes.uoregon.edu for the complete listing of Winter 2025 Black Studies courses.

Black Studies Course Catalog

The courses found in the Black Studies Course Catalog will always automatically populate to the Black Studies course schedule each term.

Intermittently Offered Courses (Instructor and/or Topic Dependent)

The following courses count toward the Black Studies minor. These courses are often instructor and/or topic dependent. If they count, they will be listed on the Black Studies course listing each term (classes.uoregon.edu): 

  • Anthropology:  
    • ANTH 453 African Archeology 
  • Cinema Studies:  
    • CINE 399 [Topic] example: African American Cinema 
  • Dance:  
    • DAN 301 African Dance Aesthetics 
  • English:  
    • ENG 205 [topic] example: Freedom Narratives
    • ENG 315 Top Afrofut Fem Writ
    • ENG 316 [topic] example: African American Women's Novels 
    • ENG 399 [topic] example: The Harlem Renaissance 
  • Ethnic Studies:  
    • ES 330 Women of Color: Issues
    • ES 407 [topic] example: Native American-African American Relations 
  • French: 
    • FR 302 Culture et Langage (instructor dependent)
    • FR 490 [topic] examples: Cesaire et al., Mongo Beti (topic and instructor dependent) 
  • Global Studies:  
    • GLBL 415 Global Story of Race 
  • Honors College:  
    • HC 424 [topic] example: Contemporary African American Women's Novels
    • HC 444 [topic] example: Top Black Feminist Lit, Top Black American TV 
  • History:  
    • HIST 399 [topic] examples: Slave Revolts, Race/Policing US
    • HIST 455/555 Colonial America 
  • Journalism:  
    • J 430: Top Doc Civil Rights 
  • Law:  
    • LAW 410 [Topic] example: Race and Law 
  • Linguistics:  
    • LING 201 Language & Power (Counts when specific faculty teach it) 
  • Philosophy:  
    • PHIL 452 Philosophy & Race (counts when specific faculty teach it) 
  • Political Science:  
    • PS 449 Racial Politics 
  • Romance Languages: 
    • RL 406/506: [topic] example: Theorizing the PlantationRL 407/507: [topic] example: Black Mediterranean 
  • Spanish:  
    • SPAN 490: [topic] example: Slaves and Runaways 
  • Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies:  
    • WGS 311: [Previously offered as WGS 399] Black Feminist Theories
    • WGS 321: Feminist Perspectives: Identity, Race, Culture 
    • WGS 351: [topic] Decolonial Feminisms (instructor dependent)
    • WGS 410: [topic] example: Performance Ethnographies
    • WGS 451: [topic] example: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora