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Extremely passionate and knowledgeable about the subject and very friendly during office hours. Provides a great overview of the entire continent from many different perspectives in only a semester. Many interesting guest lectures. Heavy reading load, but exams and 5 page paper are manageable if you do the work.Rate My Professors ↗
Has a passion for Africa and sticks to the lecture outlines site well. You can't really complain about the midterm and final because he gives you the questions ahead of time.Rate My Professors ↗
Professor Delehanty is the professor you want. He's really smart, totally unbiased, passionate, extremely helpful, very nice, clear about what he is teaching and what he wants, and actually has interesting lectures. For example, he had Koo Nimo in class for a live performance and Q & A, how awesome is that? I had him for honors and have enjoyed it.
Lecture was usually interesting, essay midterm and exams that you get before hand to prepare. Only homework is a five page paper that is extremely easy. I highly recommend Jim, he's a very interesting guy. Stop in for office hours, he'll talk about anything! He tried to convince me NOT to go to Africa!Rate My Professors ↗
Lectures are long, but easy to understand. He has you read lots of books but they are interesting. The class topics are really interesting! I recommend the class, it's cross listed with just about every topic so it's a great class to fill in the holes in credits. Exams are essay exams, but he gives you the questions in advance.Rate My Professors ↗
Somewhat interesting. Don't need to attend lecture, just go to section and do the readings.Rate My Professors ↗
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No teaching recorded in Fall 2026.
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Explore courses taught by this instructor →| Term | Course | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Fall 2012 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
| Fall 2012 | INTLST 699 | Directed Study |
| Spring 2012 | INTLST 620 | Topics in International Studies |
| Fall 2011 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
| Spring 2011 | INTLST 602 | Topics in Politics and Policy in the Global Economy |
| Spring 2011 | INTLST 699 | Directed Study |
| Fall 2010 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
| Fall 2010 | INTLST 699 | Directed Study |
| Spring 2009 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
| Fall 2008 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
| Spring 2008 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
| Fall 2006 | AFRICAN/AFROAMER/ANTHRO/GEOG/HISTORY/POLISCI/SOC 277 | Africa: an Introductory Survey |
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