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3.00 Credits
Examines the art and visual culture of the African diaspora since the 1960s. Topics include the Black Arts Movement in the USA and UK, Abstract Expressionism, the Afri-Cobra movement, recycled stereotypes, installation art and performance art.
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Focus on the historical, geographical, and cultural specificities of cultures in the African diaspora. Addresses the following main topics: history and geography of the African diaspora; slavery and responses to slavery (rebellions and revolutions); the 'big thinkers' of the African Diaspora, cultural manifestations (music and religion); discourses of whiteness, and ways to remember the Motherland.
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3.00 Credits
Critically examines a number of metaphysical, epistemological, and ethical issues related to science of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Topics may include (a)evolution of sex and gender, (b) gender and cognition, (c) biological basis, or lack thereof, of sexual orientation/preference (d) evolutionary, cognitive, historical, and political origins of race thinking, (d) relationship between everyday conceptions of race and gender as compared with scientific conceptions of race and gender, (e)ethical issues raised by human kind classification schemes.
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3.00 Credits
This course brings into focus the lived experiences of Black women throughout United States history through the end of the Civil War. Beginning with the first African women to encounter North American shores in the 17th century, Black women's knowledge, creativity, activism, and community leadership have been integral to both Black people's perseverance, and to the evolution of this country. Throughout this course, Black women's voices will be central. We will read Black women's writing, examine the ways Black women fashioned their own bodies, and we will survey Black women's art throughout this early period. We will examine a wide range of sources including periodicals, slave narratives, memoir/autobiography, oral history, poetry, visual art, film, and music, in addition to assigned secondary literature.
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3.00 Credits
Utilize the practical tools of rhetorical criticism to examine, attempt to understand and analyze the advocacy and discourse of African Americans throughout history and the present. The methods utilized will include classical and contemporary African rhetorical theories as well as classical and contemporary theories of rhetorical analysis better known to European and North American scholars. Choose specific speakers and engage in a rhetorical criticism of some element of the discourse of that speaker.
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3.00 Credits
Examines major themes in Caribbean history from the pre-Columbian period to the end of slavery in 1838. Discussion of the demographic and ecological consequences of European contact, sugar and slavery, the evolution of Creole cultures and slave resistance.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the period from 1838 to the present. Includes a discussion of the social and economic adjustments to emancipation, the making of plural societies with the importation of Asian laborers, American imperialism and political and social movements of the twentieth century.
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3.00 Credits
Social institutions and cultural traditions of Africa; political, economic, legal and kinship systems, and modes of thought.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the diversity of African American women's lives and development of women, work, and culture from 1865 through the late 20th century. Examines the social, political, religious and economic factors affecting change and transformation in the lives of African American women. Provides a broad introduction to the interdisciplinary field of African American and Women's Studies.
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3.00 Credits
Field experience combined with a seminar emphasizing professional issues in human services and human resources, including portfolio development and career planning. Students should arrange for a 50 hour field placement prior to the first week of class (see instructor). RESTRICTIONS: HMSV and Human Relations Administration majors only or permission of instructor. Students planning to take HDFS334 must attend a course orientation prior to course enrollment (unless it is to be taken during as part of the Winter Session service-learning study abroad program).
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