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Undergraduate African American Studies

2003 Spring Term

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MODERN BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY

AFRIAMR 141

A critical examination and analysis of the status and role of Black Americans in the United States since 1865.

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THE AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY: A SOCIOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

AFRIAMR 270

This course provides lower level undergraduate students with systematic sociological understanding of the historical and current experiences of African American people. (Cross-listed with Sociology)

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AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE, 1800 TO THE PRESENT

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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BLACK POLITICAL AND SOCIAL THOUGHT

AFRIAMR 365

This course will utilize a Pan-African approach to provide an organized and systematic pattern of social and political ideologies/thought put forth by Black publicists and theorists concerning the organization of their society. As such, it will survey the principal personalities and major protest movements that have emerged in the Diaspora African Community, as well as pay special attention to selected African ideologies and personalities involved in shaping Black political and social thought.

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CURRENT ISSUES IN BLACK STUDIES: HUMANITIES

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.

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AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES

AFRIAMR 470

This course will survey the historical development of the African-American Family from Africa to modern times. Significant events (e.g., the slave trade, slavery, and migration) will be scrutinized in order to ascertain their role in shaping the contemporary Black Family life. Other important social and economic forces will be illuminated to assess their impact. The latest body of literature, models, paradigms, hypotheses, and statistical findings will be critically examined to enhance understanding of modern day Black Family premarital and marital relations, adaptive patterns, and dislocations. (Offered jointly with Sociology.)

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INDEPENDENT STUDY

AFRIAMR 498

Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member.