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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction to African American Studies that combines the teaching of core thinkers, concepts, and debates in the field with instruction in critical reading and writing. After exploring the field's institutionalization in US higher education, students engage foundational texts in African American Studies such as works by Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, the Combahee River Collective, Malcolm X, Audre Lorde, and James Baldwin. After taking this course, students should emerge with rich and textured insights into African American history, thought, and culture that provides them with critical lenses for analyzing contemporary social issues impacting African Americans.
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3.00 Credits
In this course students will analyze African American life and culture using the tools of social science in order to understand and explain the functioning of power in society, the creation and maintenance of oppression, the formation of individual and community identities, and resistance. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
An introductory survey that traces the development of folk culture across the African Diaspora from Ancient African cultures to the importation of enslaved Africans in the New World. Students will explore folklore as an academic discipline, focusing on the various genres and groups that shape traditional expressions and the socio-historical context in which is was created. The course will cover such traditions as the African griot/djeli, blues music, folktales, vernacular speech & dialect, conjuring/hoodoo, death & burial rites, hip-hop, ancestor worship, and naming conventions.
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3.00 Credits
This class introduces major themes and debates that animate the study of African American music to provide a deeper understanding of the African American experience. Students will also develop skills to critically analyze lyrics and the form of music (i.e. rhythm, harmony, timbre, tempo, instrumentation, etc.) during our weekly listening assignments and discussions. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
An examination of a selected topic, designed to supplment or to investigate more fully offerings in the African American Studies curriculum. Choice of topics will reflect both student and faculty interest. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
An examination of an area of African American Studies for which no regular course is offered. This course may be repeated for credit if the content is different. The specific content will be listed when the course is offered. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
This course examines African American history and culture through visual, dramatic, or musical art. Students will work with a visiting artist to research, produce, and showcase an original work. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
A study of a representative selection of black women's fiction, poetry and drama, focusing on how these writers use the figure of the black woman and her intersectional identity to explore social, political, and aesthetic ideas. Readings may vary from year to year. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
This course is a critical examination of contemporary representations of black women in film, music, and literature. Taking black feminist scholarship as our guide, we will also investigate the ways in which black womanhood is characterized through intersectional racial, sexual, gender, and class identities. NOTE: Please refer to the appropriate academic catalog for additional course information concerning prerequisites, co-requisites and course restrictions..
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3.00 Credits
A variable topic course that explores the history, controversy, content, culture, and legacy of the music known as Hip-Hop. The course covers the foundational principles and evolution of Hip-Hop and its global impact. Students will conduct interpretative analysis of audio and visual texts, while combining scholarship and theory to critically engage subgenres, prominent figures, and debates in Hip-Hop. Topics/readings will vary from year to year and may include a range of global and black transnational perspectives.
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