{"id":3094,"date":"2026-11-04T22:48:35","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T22:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/?p=3094"},"modified":"2026-11-05T00:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T00:24:07","slug":"african-studies-program-course-list-winter-2027","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/africa\/african-studies-program-course-list-winter-2027\/","title":{"rendered":"African Studies Program Course List | Winter 2027"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Africa Courses<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ART%20H%20205?id=adeb5df9-219a-4ea6-8898-f4f20d7ffb30\"><b>ART H 205 Arts of Africa<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Jennifer A. Baez\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 10:00 AM-11:50 AM<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (A&amp;H,W)\u00a0 | 10509<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thematic exploration of art and artists from Africa and its diaspora.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/DANCE%20218?id=0010d53e-5d87-4f50-bc49-1a901570f2c0\"><b>DANCE 218 Afro-Peruvian Dance\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Monica M. Rojas\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 10:30 AM- 12:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2,3 Credits (A&amp;H) | 13340<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Covers one or more of the following Afro-Peruvian dance genres: festejo, zapateo, lando, zamacueca, and\/or marinera. Studio-based course that focuses on movement practice developed by African-descent populations in the Peruvian coast. Includes an introduction to the cultural, historical, and sociopolitical context in which the dances emerged and evolved.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/DANCE%20280?id=061f688f-4c40-43ef-a1d7-ce9f008f0c54\"><b>DANCE 280 African Dance Techniques\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Codjo Etienne Cakpo-Gbokou\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MWF | 4:30PM &#8211; 6:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">2,3 Credits (A&amp;H)\u00a0 | 13348<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Studio instruction in traditional and contemporary dance techniques of Africa and the African diaspora<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HSTAFM%20152?id=39a6d68a-a7b2-4813-9f60-7e7b39d2c07b\"><b>HSTAFM 152 Introduction To African History, C. 1880-Present\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Christopher Tounsel\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 8:30 AM- 10:20 AM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits ( DIV, SSc)\u00a0 | 15481<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Examines Africa&#8217;s pasts from approximately 1880 to the present. Through the theme of the politics of wealth, explores the history of European colonization, African social and cultural life under colonial rule, anti-colonial movements and decolonization, and the changes and challenges of the post-colonial present.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HSTAFM%20288?id=77f10d67-1958-43d2-99ff-a5a2cf426c11\"><b>HSTAFM 288 Introduction to the Horn of Africa<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Joel Walker<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MW | 10:30 AM &#8211; 12:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 credits (Div, SSC) | 21996<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explores history, culture, and peoples of the Horn of the Africa. By placing Ethiopia, Eritrea, and Somalia at the center of inquiry, invites reconsideration of standard narratives of world history that all too often ignore or marginalize the region. Includes a broad range of assignments examining art, literature, and societies of the Horn, including vibrant Diaspora communities in America.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/JSIS%20495?id=840a264b-2f9d-4e34-a860-5569a91b10d7&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwDsATAGwA0yY62YACllCmSljSUArFQDMAXxASgA\"><b>JSIS 495 D Task Force\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Tabitha G Mallory\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MW | 2:30 PM &#8211; 4:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits ( SSc, W) | 16016<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Small-group seminars address current problems in international affairs, each focusing on one specific policy question and producing a joint task force report. Restricted to senior majors in International Studies<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/MELC%20415?id=cfaae5c8-4cf6-465e-a33b-7686467960f1\"><b>MELC 415 Holy People and Holy Places of the Horn Africa<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Mehari Zemelak Worku\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 1:30 PM- 2:50 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">3 Credits (A&amp;H, SSc)\u00a0 | 17458<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Offers a comprehensive introduction to the holy men and women of the Horn of Africa, whose lives and legacies have shaped the region&#8217;s religious, political, and cultural milieu. Explores major sacred spaces and their constitutions in the region. Covers Ethiopian Christian saints to Somali Sufi mystics and Jewish Ethiopian heroes. Explores the hero formation processes in the different religious traditions of the region.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/MELC%20338\"><strong>MELC 338 \/ RELIG 338 Islam in Africa<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nInstructor: TBA<br \/>\nMW | 12:30 &#8211; 2:20 PM<br \/>\n5 credits | 22036<br \/>\n<strong>Course Description<\/strong><br \/>\nCovers the history and diversity of Islam in Africa. Examines how Islamic belief and practice interact with local cultures, politics, and colonial legacies. Topics include legal traditions, Sufi movements, state power, and Africa&#8217;s connections to the wider Islamic world and Europe.<\/p>\n<p><b>African Diaspora courses<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/AFRAM%20337?id=9b7da6d1-6ea8-47c8-a111-8c5d39646b6f\"><b>AFRAM 337 Popular Music, Race, Identity, And Social Change<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Sonnet H. Retman\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 3:30 PM &#8211; 5:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (DIV, SSc, A&amp;H) | 10177<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Focuses on popular music, shifting formations of race and identity and social change in various cultural, historical, and political contexts. Explores popular music as a tool for social change, a vehicle for community-building and a form of political and aesthetic expression.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/AFRAM%20340?id=58ac509d-1857-4d14-9be6-3354c28dcccc\"><b>AFRAM 340 The Harlem Renaissance: A Literary Study<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Sonnet H. Retman\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 12:30 PM- 2:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits ( A&amp;H, DIV) | 10178<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Highlights Harlem Renaissance &#8211; 1912 through mid-1930s &#8211; as establishing a role for twentieth-century African American writer, encompassing literature, politics, and decolonization of the image of Africa, and solidifying integrationist and nationalist schools of thought. Examines images, themes, and characterizations in creating a literary aesthetic simultaneously American and African American.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/AES%20489?id=a41c220f-ad11-4be7-a115-fd54552689b7&amp;sectionFilters=%7B%22queryString%22%3A%22AES%20489%22%2C%22selectedDays%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22startTime%22%3A%220630%22%2C%22endTime%22%3A%222230%22%2C%22openOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22noEnrollmentRestrictionsOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22noTbaOnly%22%3Afalse%2C%22pceOnly%22%3Atrue%2C%22instructorSearch%22%3Afalse%2C%22terms%22%3A%5B%5D%2C%22inPerson%22%3Afalse%7D\"><b>AES 489 \/ COM 489 \/ GWSS 489 Black Cultural Studies<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Timeka Nicol Tounsel\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Asynchronous Online To be arranged<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (DIV, SSc) | 10165<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Examines how images of blackness have been (re)constructed through identity formation and entrenched inequality. Topics include black women&#8217;s bodies, black men&#8217;s bodies, blackface minstrelsy, black queer studies, black power, and black hybridities.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/HSTCMP%20259?id=c451cf1d-ad6f-4d9a-9fde-af7f801d02d5\"><b>HSTCMP 259 Race and Slavery Across The Americas\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Bianca Elan Dang\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MW | 12:30 PM &#8211; 2:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (DIV, SSc) | 21881<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Surveys development of racial slavery across North and South America and the Caribbean from 1500-1880s. Comparative examination of slavery exploring how slavery supported colonization making European settlement across Americas viable; how ideas about racial difference developed, operated differently; how enslaved peoples&#8217; resistance to bondage helped abolish slavery in Americas by late 1880s.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Language Courses<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/AMHAR102\"><b>AMHAR 102 \/ 512 Elementary Amharic II\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Mehari Worku<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">TTh | 10:30 AM &#8211; 12:20 PM | SLN 10264<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H)\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Enables students to acquire the Amharic language including its unique writing script. Familiarizes students with major historical and cultural aspects of Ethiopia. Includes multiple practice sessions targeted at developing listening, speaking, reading, and writing skills.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ARAB%20102?id=718210ee-bc00-40bb-b337-9d4d32165083\"><b>ARAB 102 \/ 512 Elementary Arabic\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Khalid A Ahmed\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Section A:\u00a0 MWF | 9:30 AM &#8211; 11:20 AM | SLN 10343<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Section B : TThF | 9:30 AM &#8211; 11:20 AM | SLN 10344<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H)\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Develops the four communicative language skills: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Stresses communication skills and emphasizes the links between language and culture, using mainly Modern Standard Arabic, with exposure to Egyptian Colloquial Arabic. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ARAB%20202?id=b319fb86-b041-4661-bf2e-cf2f488524ad\"><b>ARAB 202 \/ 522 Intermediate Arabic\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Amina Moujtahid\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MWF | 9:30 AM -10:50 AM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H) | 10345<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Explores aspects of Arab culture and emphasizes all skills of language acquisition: listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students also learn more about Arab society in general and about features of Arab culture that influence the use of the language in daily life. Focuses on developing communication skills. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/ARAB%20302?id=b6334513-2464-485c-b4ed-df671de4851b\"><b>ARAB 302 \/ ARAB 532 Third Year Arabic\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Khalid A Ahmed\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MWF | 11:30 AM- 12:50 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H)\u00a0 | 10346<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Helps students acquire an advanced proficiency in Arabic by focusing on developing all four skills of language acquisition: reading, writing, listening, and speaking. Explores topics related to Arabic culture, Arabic society, Arabic music and arts, and Arabic literature.<\/span><b>\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20101?id=925b4bef-ab73-49fb-b190-772f2f9e741f\"><b>FRENCH 101 Elementary French<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Helene V. Collins\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 8:30 AM -9:20 AM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H) | 14932<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in French and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required. First in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20102?id=aa9fcbae-59a1-4101-abab-daaf809ce048\"><b>FRENCH 102 Elementary French\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Section A Instructor: Helene V. Collins\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 9:30AM- 10:20 AM | SLN 14933<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Section B Instructor: Irina Markina\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 10:30 AM- 11:20 AM\u00a0 | SLN 14934\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits ( A&amp;H)\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in French and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20103?id=7ac79f76-9083-4edc-b466-a620afc1b9ca&amp;states=N4Ig7gDgziBcLADrgJYDsAmB7MAJApigOYAWALsrAIwAsADAMwA0yY62YACllCmSljSUArAF8QooA\"><b>FRENCH 103 Elementary French\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Irina Markina\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 9:30 AM- 10:20 AM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H) | 14937<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Development of speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills to a basic level of proficiency. Teaches students to communicate in French and understand the cultural context of the language. Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Oral practice in the language laboratory is required. Third in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20201?id=e4dc2686-233c-4a26-8722-90a5bfb1c94a\"><b>FRENCH 201 Intermediate French<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Claire Wagenseil<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 1:30 PM &#8211; 2:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H) | 14944<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach. First in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20202?id=cda74118-f6b9-438d-b515-5e05c937f768\"><b>FRENCH 202 Intermediate French\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Section A Instructor: Sarah Kate Moore\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 9:30 AM &#8211; 10:20 AM | SLN 14946<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Section B Instructor: Hedwige Meyer\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 12:30 PM-1:20 PM | SLN 14947<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H)\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach. Second in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20203?id=ddd6a755-80e0-49b4-8627-46dbfc0bac92\"><b>FRENCH 203 Intermediate French\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Sarah Kate Moore\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 10:30 AM -11:20 AM\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H) | 14948<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Designed to bring students to an intermediate level of proficiency. Emphasis on experiencing the language in context through a multi-media approach. Third in a sequence of three.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/FRENCH%20302?id=69bc62d3-ea86-4331-91b9-c0eecff76798\"><b>FRENCH 302 Cultures Of the Francophone World\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Matthew Skrzypczyk\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MW | 10:30 AM &#8211; 12:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H)\u00a0 | 14950<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Introduces the cultural history of the francophone world via a broad survey of literary, cinematic, and other cultural texts in French that inform debates on national culture in France as well as the legacies of the French Empire in the form of discourses on race, immigration, and more in France and its postcolonies. Develops advanced language skills and cultural competency through oral and written production in the target language.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/myplan.uw.edu\/course\/#\/courses\/PORT%20103?id=c0601e1e-26e4-4ebe-976a-3f532c693dd8\"><b>PORT 103 Elementary Portuguese\u00a0<\/b><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instructor: Eduardo Viana Da Silva\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">MTWThF | 11:30 AM- 12:20 PM\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5 Credits (A&amp;H) | 19485<\/span><br \/>\n<b>Course Description:\u00a0<\/b><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Methods and objectives are primarily oral-aural. Covers all major elements of Portuguese grammar. 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