Undergraduate African American Studies
Undergraduate African American Studies
2008 Spring Term
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INTRODUCTION TO BLACK CULTURE (DV)(GE)
AFRIAMR 100
This course is an introduction to the experiences, literature, art and music of Black people. Emphasis will be placed on major Black contributions to American culture. Special attention will be paid to Black studies as a discipline.
MODERN BLACK AMERICAN HISTORY (DV)(GE)
AFRIAMR 141
A critical examination and analysis of the status and role of Black Americans in the United States since 1865.
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.
AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILIES
AFRIAMR 392
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.)
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.
INDEPENDENT STUDY
AFRIAMR 498
Study of a selected topic or topics under the direction of a faculty member.