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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Black studies begins with black history. African civilization, technology and trade, European colonialism, slavery, the CivilWar, Emancipation, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, the northward migration, the civil rights movement, Black Power, and black liberation-these are some important periods and themes that structure historical understanding of Africans in the United States.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Social and cultural analysis provides an understanding of the structures and processes of social and political power. This course examines contemporary issues, achievements and problems of African Americans, their families, and their communities, offering both questions and answers about the persistent inequality and conflict that characterize the black experience in the late 20th century.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits This course introduces African history and culture as an independent aspect of world civilization. Students consider Afrocentrism, post-colonialism, world systems analysis, dependency theory, colonialism, imperialism, state formation, and cultural exchange.The course shows how distinctive African contributions have shaped, and are shaped by, the world's cultures.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits ( Fine Arts Core) A study of the history of jazz fromAfrican music to conb temporary trends and more popular forms. Emphasis will be placed on styles and performers. Analytical listening will be required. Same as AMS 227 and MSC 227.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Covers the many ways in which religious practice and faith have contributed to the development of contemporary African-American society and culture. African and African-American Catholicism, conventional and evangelical Protestantism, Islam, traditional African spirituality, syncretic traditions of the Caribbean and South America, voodoo, and contemporary mysticism are considered.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits A survey of city politics in the United States from a variety of theoretical perspectives, using analytical concepts such as social class, pluralism, political economy, and urban regimes. Includes urban elections and party machines, metropolitan development and suburbanization, and racial and ethnic political mobilization. Fulfills the American Politics requirement. Same as PSC 303.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits What was it like to be a part of the 1950s and 1960s U.S. civil rights movement Examines why people join social movements, how they are organized, why they occur when they do, and why they succeed or fail, and offers a critical evaluation of current theories of social and political movements. Same as SOC 304.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits An analysis of race and ethnic relations in America with special emphasis on the historical and contemporary experience of Native Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, African Americans, and European Americans. Sociological theory and data are used to examine the structural sources and effects of racism, prejudice, and discrimination. Same as SOC 305.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits Identifies the extent of, and reasons for, such urban problems as poverty, crime, and homelessness in cities such as Providence, NewYork, Boston, and Chicago. In generating explanations and developing solutions, the course draws on the theories of urban sociologists and on the personal experience of those who confront urban problems. Same as SOC 307.
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3.00 Credits
1 semester, 3 credits "Cultural competence" includes awareness of one's owculture-based worldview, awareness of the worldviews of diverse clients, and skills in working across cultural differences. Such competence will be pursued through reflection and dialogue about students' own cultures and contacts with others of different cultures in reading, cocurricular exploration, and service learning. Same as SWK 320.
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