Spring 2025 Courses

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

Summer 2025 Courses

Visit classes.uoregon.edu for the complete listing of Summer 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.

Regularly offered Black Studies Courses

Core Course:

ES 250: Introduction to Black Studies 

Lower Division Courses:

• ENG 241: Introduction to African American Literature
• HIST 250: African American History   
• HIST 251: African American History     

Upper Division Courses:

• ENG 315: Black Feminist Jursprudence
• ENG 316: African American Women’s Novels
• ENG 360: African American Writers
• ENG 399: Harlem Renaissance
• ENG 468: Contemporary Black Fiction
• ENG 479: Major Author: Toni Morrison
• ENG 498: Contemporary African American Women’s Novels
• ES 310: Race and sex in Hip-Hop
• ES 310: Race/Sport/Gender
• ES 330: Women of Color: Issues          
• ES 352: Social Equity and Criminal Justice     
• ES 360: Black Sexual Politics 
• ES 440: Race, Literature, and Culture: [Topic]
• ES 450: Race and Incarceration           
• FR 312: French Survey of Francophone Literature      
• GLBL 345: African Contemporary Issues and Concerns          
• GLBL 415: The Global Story of Race   
• HIST 325: Precolonial Africa   
• HIST 326: Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
• HIST 399: Slave Revolts            
• HIST 417: Society and Culture in Modern Africa: Apartheid South Africa
• HIST 470: African American History to 1877
• HIST 471: African American History since 1877           
• MUS 360: Hip-Hop History, Culture, Aesthetics           
• MUS 367: Survey of African Music       
• MUS 462: Popular Musics in the African Diaspora      
• PHIL 341: African Philosophy
• PS 316: Black Lives Matter and American Democracy
• WGS 311: Black Feminist Theories
• WGS 351: Global Feminisms
• WGS 451: Gender and Sexuality in Africa and the Diaspora

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 399 [topic] example: The Harlem Renaissance
• Ethnic Studies:  
  • 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] example: 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 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