Examination of seven core areas of African American Studies: History, Religion, Social Organization, Politics, Economics, Creative Production, and Psychology. Emphasizes major theoretical and critical discourses of Black Studies, and its emergence as a political/social movement and as a discipline. Relates the latter to the complexity and diversity of contemporary movements such as Civil Rights, Free Speech, Black Power, and Afrocentricism. This course fulfills the QEP requirement in Ethics and Civil Responsibility (ECR).

A broad introduction to the history, culture, religion, institutions, politics, economics, arts, and psychology of people of African descent as developed from experience in both the old and new worlds.