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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Comparative political study of Africa south of the Sahara with emphasis on the unique problems connected with the independence and post-independence period of a number of new African states. Cross-listed as POLS 265. ( LA, HO2) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. POLS.
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3 s.h. This course examines African American communities as sites of cultural and political resistance. Topics include: the role of churches, gospel choirs, youth and women's groups and community groups in constructing and sustaining black identities and cultural expressions. (LA, CPA) Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Survey of the changing status and role of women in American society. Main emphasis will be the origin and development of feminism from 19th century to the present, its ideology, and leadership and organization problems within the context of broader social change. Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course. ( LA)
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3 s.h. This course examines postcolonial literature culturally, thematically and theoretically. Students read writers who have responded to the impact of colonialism in such geographies as Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. The cultural legacy of British imperialism and expressions of resistance to it are explored. ( LA, HO2) Cross-listed as WLIT 270. Prerequisites: COMP 100, LITR 100 and LITR 150, LITR 250.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A survey of the history of colonial Latin America from 1492 to 1762, which covers pre-Hispanic society, the conquest and colonial politico-economic and cultural patterns. ( LA, HO2) Cross-listed as HIST 271. Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. Survey of modern Latin America that begins with the Bourbon/ Pombaline reforms c. 1760 and covers independence movements, liberalism and other ideologies as well as U.S.-Latin American relations. ( LA, HO2) Cross-listed as HIST 272. Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course will use a multidisciplinary approach to examine some of the ways race, gender, class, and culture intersect in the lives of women and men in various Africana and Latino societies and cultures in the Americas (including the Caribbean and the United States). Attention is focused on the historical, economic, and political context that underlie race-, gender- class- and ethnic-based inequalities that persist in contemporary societies. By exploring individual and community experiences, we will assess the dynamic variation in women and men's racial-ethnic, class and gender identity formation. (LA, HO2)
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. This course examines the social conditions and gendered experiences of women and men in Africa contrasting the precolonial, colonial and post colonial eras. ( LA, HO2) Cross-Listed as HIST 274. Prerequisite: SoS.
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3 s.h. This course covers the period after the British succeeded the Dutch as rulers of Cape Colony, examining aspects of frontier engagements between Africans and colonizers, the effects of a mining-industrial economy and African resistance to the white state. Resistance to the South African racial formation will be discussed in its myriad expressions: labor, religious, artistic, new social groups. ( LA, HO2) Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course.
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3.00 Credits
3 s.h. A study of the institution of slavery, its origins, continuance, and contemporary residuals. ( LA, HO2) Cross-listed as HIST 276. Prerequisite: SoS or 3 s.h. 100-level HIST course. ALS 288 Borderlands: Latinos and Latinas in the U.S. 3 s.h. This course explores the history of the Spanish colonization of northern Mexico and what is today the southwestern United States. Cross-listed as HIST 288. ( LA) Literature and Drama
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