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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is a study of the African identity, personality, and the concept of ¿blackness¿ with particular emphasis on what it means to be black in America. An adequate discourse on the complexities of African American Studies requires a multi-disciplinary approach that considers the expansive nature of the African Experience in North America. Accordingly, any substantive intellectual and scholarly foundation for critically understanding the salient areas of this course require the application of cross-discipline areas of study involving race, culture, socioeconomics, history, African American political behavior, and psychosocial theories of development. This course fulfills the QEP requirements in Quantitative Literacy (QL). Prerequisite: AAS 200
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African aesthetics, African cosmology, and qualities of African spirituality.
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3.00 Credits
Development, evolution, and impact of foundational African technology on contemporary inventions in architecture, engineering, and medicine.
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3.00 Credits
Contributions of African Americans to theatre and dance. Creative process and application of creative process through live performance. Prerequisites: THR 100 or THR 200 or THR 235
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3.00 Credits
Cultural values from James Baldwin in 1950s, through black nationalist, civil rights, and black feminist movements, to contemporary writers such as Ishmael Reed, Charles Johnson, and Toni Morrison.
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3.00 Credits
"AAS 400 - Seminar in African American Studies - 3 Specific topic in African American Studies. Prerequisites: AAS 200 and 9 hours of AAS 300-level courses, or permission of the AAS Director. "
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3.00 Credits
Critical health issues affecting Black communities globally including HIV, AIDS, cancer, diabetes, stroke, heart disease/hypertension, malaria. Prerequisites: AAS 200 and 9 hours of AAS 300 level courses, or permission of the AAS Director.
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3.00 Credits
Development of African American dramatic tradition from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts movement to contemporary postmodernism, including Brown, Hurston, Baraka, and Wilson.
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Development of African American poetry from its early works to the present, including Wheatley, Dumbar, Hughes, Brooks, and Angelou.
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3.00 Credits
Black writers during Harlem Renaissance movement. Includes Johnson, Toomer, Murray, Larsen, McKay, Thurman, Reed, and Morrison. Prerequisites: EH 101 and EH 102
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