Spring 2027

Introductory Topics in African Languages

Introductory course covering African language diversity, multilingual societies, and language-society relationships through special topics.

offering recorded3 credits
Recorded instructors · Spring 2027 Adeola Agoke3.9/5

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.72 GPA, 91.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.84 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

What you’ll be able to do

  • Recognize the names of major African language families and important African languages, and important terms for the study of African languages

  • Demonstrate their understanding of major theories, approaches, concepts, and current and classical research findings in the study of African languages

  • Develop a level of proficiency in the different “ways of knowing” Africa and the diaspora through languages and cultures.

  • Understand their own learning processes and possess the capacity to intentionally seek, evaluate, and learn from information, and recognize and reduce bias in their thinking.

  • Effectively retrieve and comprehend primary sources and secondary sources from a range of disciplines.

  • Communicate effectively through essays, oral presentations, and discussion, so they may share their knowledge, wisdom, and values with others across social and professional settings.

  • Discuss linguistic analysis and examples from various theoretical and critical perspectives, formulate ideas and make connections between linguistic and social concepts and themes.

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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.72 GPA, 91.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.84 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

Historical instructors & teaching patterns

ADEOLA AGOKE is recorded teaching in Fall 2019, Spring 2020, Fall 2020, Fall 2021, Spring 2022, Fall 2022, Spring 2023, Fall 2023, Spring 2024, Fall 2024, Spring 2025, Fall 2025, Spring 2026. Recorded history may be incomplete and does not establish a future schedule.

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Spring 2027

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Student experience

the class

Recent recorded grades — Spring 2025: 3.56 GPA, 77.8% A/AB (n=18 letter grades); Fall 2025: 3.72 GPA, 91.3% A/AB (n=23 letter grades); Spring 2026: 3.84 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=22 letter grades).

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Topics

  • Diversity of African languages and multilingual societies
  • Major African language families and key terminology
  • Relationships between language and societal issues

Skills

  • Understand major theories, approaches, concepts, and research findings in African linguistics
  • Analyze linguistic examples from theoretical and critical perspectives
  • Retrieve and comprehend primary and secondary sources from multiple disciplines
  • Communicate knowledge through essays, oral presentations, and discussion

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AFRICAN 204 · Spring 2027

Introductory Topics in African Languages

Recorded 2026-10-14
AFRICAN 204 · Spring 2027

Lang, Mobility & Globalization

Recorded 2026-10-14
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Recorded 2026-10-14

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