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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to more fully develop topics, genres, periods, and texts that are touched upon in the Introduction to African American History course (AFAM 2000). The course is taught from an interdisciplinary perspective that emphasizes methodologies and approaches from both the humanities and the social sciences. The course may be taken up to three times as long as the content differs in the three Topics courses selected by an individual student. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
Usually offered spring semester. Interdisciplinary course dealing with traditional (pre-European), colonial, and post-independence African political, social, and economic structures and institutions. Course also focuses on problems of social, political, and economic development facing contemporary African nations. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
Issues, problems, and research findings of race, ethnic, and minority group relations. Race differences; patterns of racial and ethnic migration; patterns of race and ethnic conflict; stages in racial and ethnic group contact; the distributive, social, psychological, and organizational dimensions of inequality; various types of resolutions to racial and ethnic group contact. Emphasis is on American black-white relations, American ethnic groups, religious conflict, and racial and ethnic group contacts in Europe, Asia, Africa, and Latin America. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
This interdisciplinary course examines African Americans as agents in shaping the 20th century urban experience in the United States. The central focus of the course will be the development of cultural, social, religious, economic, educational and political institutions. Examples will be drawn from among communities such as Harlem, NY, the Central Avenue district of Los Angeles, Chicago's south side, and the Auburn Avenue district of Atlanta as well as others. Prerequisite: AFAM 2000. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to ways in which scholars examine the African American experience. The theory component of the course is designed to introduce students to an interdisciplinary approach to framing inquiries about African American life, history, and sociocultural organization. The methods component of this course will examine various analytical and philosophical approaches central to study and research applicable to African American studies. Prerequisite: AFAM 2000. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
This course examines the similarities and differences between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King, Jr. -- their leadership styles, personality traits, philosophical assumptions, the movements they led, and their tactics in particular campaigns. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
Through the application of sociological concepts, theory, and methods, this course will focus on the sociohistorical experience of African Americans as the social institutions in US society. Included will be a critical examination of the African Diaspora. Prerequisites: SOCI 2060 and AFAM 2000. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
A study of major African American texts of the twentieth century, from the Harlem Renaissance to the contemporary period. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
Chronological and in-depth study of specific issues affecting African Americans from their West African beginnings to Civil War. Major themes to be announced each semester. (3 Credits)
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3.00 Credits
Continuation of topical survey of main currents in African American life from the Civil War to the present. Major themes to be announced each semester. (3 Credits)
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