AFSO Courses and Professors
Areas of Study
Please click here for our Summer Semester 2025 courses. Registration can be found on the For Students page.
Meet Some of Our Volunteer Professors
Our professors hail from 25 different universities and 30 different academic fields on four continents. They are all devoted to the education and empowerment of Afghan university women. Please click the title above for more details on our accomplished and dedicated teaching team.
Past AFSO Seminars
English, Writing and Literature
Learning English through Speaking and Writing - Carmel Finnan
English Writing and Conversation - Erin Frymire
Reading and vocabulary - Lucy Ferriss
Translation and Power - Kathryn Batchelor
Art of Caring in Reading and Writing - Sarah Whitney
Introduction to Medical English - Patience Wesoamo Alogokali
English Language Test Preparation - Christina Schoux Casey and Lucy Ferriss
Introduction to Political Speechwriting - Esmé Ellis
English Pronunciation, Grammar, Academic Vocabulary, and Conversation - Jackie Murphy
English for Math Students - Alex de Lusignan Fan-Moniz
Colloquium - Lucy Ferriss and Christina Schoux Casey
Language Arts - Erin Frymire
Descriptive Portraits - Sonya Huber
English Fundamentals - Lucy Ferriss
English and Critical Thinking - J. Donald Moon
English for STEM learners - Lucy Ferriss
English Writing and Conversation - Erin Frymire
Women Write - Adriana Paramo
1000 Splendid Suns & the Contemporary Afghan Woman's Story: A Seminar in Reading and Writing Fiction - Lucy Ferriss
Humanities and Social Sciences
Screenwriting - Temenuga Trifonova
Digital Art - Ina Malloy
Powerful Women on Stage: How Plays Portray Societies and Women's Lives - Ellen W. Kaplan
Exploring Afghan Music - Sara Feili
Philosophy and Literature - Dianne Taylor
Major Women Philosophers - Simona Aimar, Colin Chamberlain, Anastasia Kopylova, Jamie Eliott, Fatemeh Sadeghi Givi
Philosophers and Queens: Women in the History of Political Thought - Rebecca Kingston
Musicology - Arshia Rahmati
Middle Eastern Cinema - Persheng Vaziri
Architecture, Cities and the Environment - Rahman Azari and Rana Habibi
History of the Middle East and Afghanistan - Nelida Fuccaro
Gender and Customs - Elisa T. Bertuzzo
Contemporary World Politics - Angus Fake
Introduction to International Relations - Captain Cheng Xu
Research Methods for Architects and Urban Designers - Alexandra Staub
Introduction to Human Rights - Shazia Sadaf
Europe and Its Legal Traditions - Reut Paz and Christoph König
Thinking like an Anthropologist - Janet Bauer
Culture, Religion, and Women's Rights - Shazia Sadaf
Introduction to Colonization - Biazar Bahar
Introduction to Western Ethics - Shane Ewegen
Political Science - J. Donald Moon
Maths and Sciences
Global Public Health - Judy Lewis
Introduction to Computing Science and Software Development in Python - Anne Lavergne
Math in Society - Shabnam Akhtari
Introduction to Forensic Science - Janet Morrison
Introduction to Research Techniques - Xavier Prudent
Introduction to Statistics - Naomi Altman and Sarah Rajtmajer, and Kathy Sykora
Statistics and Data Science - Naomi Altman and Sarah Rajtmajer
Introduction to Astronomy - Emily Haynes
College Algebra - Barbara Kaltenbacher and Doug Shaw
Calculus - Elisa Francini and Elena Berretta
Introduction to Sustainability in Chemistry - Nikki Man
Introduction to Environmental Health - Carolina Santos
Child Development - Sue W. Quinlan
Analytical Topics in Sustainability - Linda Tomasso
Introduction to Physics - Gary Felder
How do Cell Live and Communicate? - Anna Mondina, Anna Rubartelli, and Valeria Poli
Introduction to Physics - Francesco Arneodo
Chemistry - Janet Morrison
Public Health as Health Promotion - Marianne Bengtsson Agostino.
Introduction to Engineering Science & Design - John Mertens
Fundamentals of Engineering Mechanics - Saleh Keshawarz
Chemistry - Michelle Kovarik and Janet Morrison
Mathematics - Deborah Zanella