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3.00 Credits
This two semester course shall focus on conversation, comprehension and understanding of the Arabic language in the media and the internet. It will also enhance the students' ability to express ideas and share opinions in the language.
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3.00 Credits
A comparative study of the traditions, continuity, and changes affecting girls and women of African descent in the U.S., Africa, the Caribbean, and South America. Course uses both literary works and social science studies to explore the portrayals of and historical contexts for the lives of females of African descent, focusing on concepts of girlhood, social status, and sexuality, as well as on discrimination experienced by these women.
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3.00 Credits
Critical examination of Enslavement and colonization on the minds and institutions of Africans throughout the world. Either this course, AFAS 3900 or AFAS 3950 is required of all Africana Studies majors.
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3.00 Credits
Study in the extended family as a cultural form of social and political organization in Africa. Since the first form of the traditional family in Africa was the extended family, emphasis is placed on the values of communalism, collective work, cooperative economics, and community self-reliance. Attention is given to the family as the basic unit of social organization in African cultures.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the dynamics of the African-American family. The course studies the institution of marriage, customs, male/female relationships, and value orientation. Special attention is given to both the nuclear family and the extended family in the African-American community.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the dynamics of the African-American community. Attention is given to phenomena such as the family, religious institutions, political organizations, human rights organizations, economics, health care education, and social problems such as violence, drugs, and dysfunctional families.
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3.00 Credits
This course shall chronologically and systematically explore the transformations of Malcolm Little to Malcolm X and finally to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz.The primary focus of the course shall be the cultural, historical, political, social and spiritual dimensions of these transformations.
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3.00 Credits
An examination of the historical significance of the Caribbean in the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and the connections between Africans born in the United States and Africans born in the Caribbean. Course also examines the nation-building efforts of these countries and development problems created by the world political economy in their domestic and foreign policies.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the various Black Nationalist and Pan-African movements that emerged between 1850 and the present. Special attention is given to the movements of Martin Delaney, Edward Blyden, Marcus Garvey, the Nation of Islam, and other contemporary groups. Either this course AFAS 3100 or AFAS 3950 is required of all Africana Studies majors.
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3.00 Credits
A study of traditional African societies, the constraints of colonization on their development, and the transformation of the traditional societies through the processes of industrialization and modernization. Either this course or PISI 4920 (Black Politics) is required of all Africana Studies majors.
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