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Undergraduate African American Studies
Undergraduate African American Studies
2017 Spring Term
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AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1800 TO THE PRESENT (DV)
AFRIAMR 345
A survey of essays, prose, fiction, drama, and poetry written by African-Americans from the Colonial period to the present.
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CURRENT ISSUES IN BLACK STUDIES: HUMANITIES (DV)(GE)
AFRIAMR 397
This seminar course addresses the appeal of Black power as a polemic, protest and propaganda in the context of the Black experience in the United States. The primary materials will be speeches, documentaries, comic routines, mime groups, theatre and cinema. The approach is rhetorical and focuses on the ways in which statements are made and the effect they may have on the immediate audience and beyond.