The Kenyon College faculty voted to change from Kenyon units to semester hours. This change will go into effect for all students who start at the College in the fall of 2024. Both systems will be used throughout the course catalog with the Kenyon units being listed first.
Concentration
Courses that meet the requirement for this concentration:
AMST 221 | Soul Culture |
AMST 302D | The History of Jazz |
AMST 321 | Race, Education, and Student Rebellion |
ANTH 113 | Introduction to Cultural Anthropology |
ANTH 300 | Archaeology of the African Diaspora |
ARHS 116 | Introduction to African Art |
ARHS 247 | African Art in Motion |
DRAM 258 | South African Theater |
ENGL 288 | African American Literature |
ENGL 366 | African Fiction |
ENGL 382 | Black Joy and Resilience |
ENGL 386 | Toni Morrison |
ENGL 390 | Black Women Writers |
ENGL 421 | Black Shakespeares |
ENGL 487 | The Mulatto in American Fiction |
FILM 256 | African American Film |
HIST 102D | United States History, 1865– Present |
HIST 145 | Early Africa |
HIST 146 | Modern Africa |
HIST 175 | Early Black History |
HIST 176 | Contemporary Black History |
HIST 242 | Americans in Africa |
HIST 246 | Urban Africa |
HIST 307 | Great African American Migration: 1900–1970 |
HIST 310 | The Civil War |
HIST 312 | Blacks in the Age of Jim Crow |
HIST 341 | African Women in Film and Fiction |
HIST 349 | Contemporary West African History through Fiction and Film |
HIST 350 | Race, Resistance and Revolution in South Africa |
HIST 374 | The Atlantic World |
HIST 380 | Black History through Fiction and Film |
HIST 411 | The Civil Rights Era |
HIST 412 | Race, Politics and Public Policy |
HIST 413 | Race, Crime and Criminal Justice |
HIST 444 | Faith and Power in Africa |
MUSC 207 | Music and the African American Experience |
MUSC 302D | History of Jazz |
RLST 135 | African Spirituality in the Americas |
RLST 242 | Caribbean Religions |
RLST 252 | Rastafari: Movement of the Jah People |
RLST 280 | Religion and Popular Music in the African Diaspora |
SOCY 232 | Sexual Harassment: Normative Expectations and Legal Questions |
SOCY 244 | Race, Ethnicity and American Law |
SOCY 250 | Systems of Stratification |
SOCY 385 | Du Boisian Sociology |
SOCY 421 | Gender Stratification |
SOCY 422 | Topics in Social Stratification |
SOCY 463 | Intersectional Theory |