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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Complexities of being black and female in the history of the United States. Interrogation of racism, class, sexuality, and sexism. Black women’s multifaceted, diverse community roles.
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3.00 Credits
Social, legal constructions and live experiences of race. Phenomenon of "passing" and category of "mixed race" in fiction, film, and land-mark court cases.
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3.00 Credits
Use of anthropology, folklore, history, and literature to examine the history of Haitian Vodun, Cuban Santeria, Brazilian Candomblé, New Orleans Voodoo, and Trinidadian Orisha worship. Comparisons with Black Christian traditions and supernatural beliefs beyond organized religion.
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3.00 Credits
The enslavement of Africans in the Americas as a subject of debate among popular and academic audiences. Slavery as depicted in literature, oral history, genealogy, film, and other creative productions. Public commemoration and tourist-related observance of slavery around the diaspora.
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3.00 Credits
Comparative fiction by women from Francophone and Anglophone Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Novels of awakening (bildungsroman), themes of exile, home and alienation, identity as well as sexuality, class and color, slavery and colonialism.
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3.00 Credits
Biographies and autobiographies as lenses for the study of historical trends and events; development of gender, sexual, and racial identities in subjects.
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3.00 Credits
Collection, management, analysis and interpretation of data for research. Introduction to qualitative computer software programs.
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3.00 Credits
History and politics of the African Diaspora in Europe. Focus on Britain, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Scandinavia. European Union debates about social exclusion; race in the European context.
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3.00 - 6.00 Credits
Readings conducted under the supervision of a member of the African American and Diaspora Studies program and a substantial research paper are required. Under faculty supervision, students from any discipline can gain experience in a broad range of public and private institutions on issues relative to the black experience. A minimum of 3 hours of background reading and research will be completed in AADS 280a concurrently with and regardless of the numbers of hours taken in internship training in 280b. Normally a 2.90 grade point average, 6 hours of prior work in AADS, and prior approval by the director of Undergraduate Studies in African American and Diaspora Studies of the student’s plan are required. A research paper and report must be submitted at the end of the semester during which the internship training is completed. Corequisite: 280b.
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1.00 - 9.00 Credits
Graded on a Pass/Fail basis only and must be taken concurrently with 280a. These hours may not be included in the minimum number of hours required for the African American and Diaspora studies major. Under faculty supervision, students from any discipline can gain experience in a broad range of public and private institutions on issues relative to the black experience. A minimum of 3 hours of background reading and research will be completed in AADS 280a concurrently with and regardless of the numbers of hours taken in internship training in 280b. Normally a 2.90 grade point average, 6 hours of prior work in AADS, and prior approval by the director of Undergraduate Studies in African American and Diaspora Studies of the student’s plan are required. A research paper and report must be submitted at the end of the semester during which the internship training is completed. Corequisite: 280a.
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