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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. The course is designed to deepen understanding of African dance through a combination of praxis, theory, and choreography. In this course the Umfundalai technique is taught at an accelerated pace. Students are challenged to perform advanced combinations of this dance technique. Students conduct research on African dance and African dance aesthetics. Theoretical applications of African aesthetics to African dance are made. Students explore aesthetic theory, relevant historical information and traditional African cultural philosophy through choreography. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. Historical overview of the development of African American cinema. Examines how film has been used to culturally define the parameters of black cultural identity and how black cultural producers promoted alternate constructions of black identity. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. Examines the artistic and literary strivings of African Americans produced during the period between the post-World War I era and the Great Depression. Examines work of individual artists and literary figures. Also examines the impact of African and African American aesthetics on the development of American Modernism. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Junior standing and any 2000-level African and African-American Studies class. The course will examine the theme of black identity by exploring writers form the Dominican republic, Puerto Rico, New York, and from Cuba, who humanize the image of blacks by illustrating different aspects and dimensions if the psyche in Spanish-speaking Caribbean islands. Selected texts will be examined to explore how they illustrate representations of silenced voices, address the absence of authentic characterization of blacks, and conscientiously and progressively concentrate on a new racial reality. (Sp)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. The purpose of the class is to explore the inter- and intra-structural components of the African American family using an applied social systems and ecological approach. Great emphasis will be placed on historical and concurrent social, religious, political and economic factors that influence the psyche of both the family and in a broader sense a culture rooted in the Afrocentric paradigm. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses upon African or African American content, or English 1213. Examines health problems, health status, and health behavior of African American men and women. A life course perspective is emphasized from birth to later life. It is assumed that being African American predisposes persons to health problems that increase the risk of disease or that influence health based on the diversity of cultural beliefs, values, and practices. Access to health services will be addressed. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. A comparative study of the complex roles of women of African descent in cross-cultural perspective. Examines the issue in the socio-cultural contexts of South Africa, United States, and the Caribbean. Topics include gender relations, impact of urbanization, class status, and Diasporan women as culture workers. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African and African American content, or English 1213. Examines race relations in general and black/white relations in particular; creative race relations problem-solving and decision-making strategies; and self-awareness as it affects race relations. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. Examines African cultural retentions in African American music. Emphasis is placed upon traditional African rhythms, attitudes, themes, and sounds. Investigates how these devices inform African American musical traditions. (Irreg.)
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: any course that focuses on African or African American content, or English 1213. Historical inquiry into behavioral and sociopolitical trends of hip hop culture. Attempts to codify and recognize dominant cultural attitudes, concepts and paradigms as global phenomenon shaping understanding of contemporary African American character, identity, and culture. (Irreg.)
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