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3.00 Credits
Focuses on the complex and checkered relationships between Western-inspired development and African cultures. Striking a balance among ethnographic case studies, theoretical lenses, and practical implications, understand what Euro-American efforts at foreign development, including contemporary globalization, look like from an African perspective. Provides an understanding of African expectations of development and developers. Cross listed with AAST 4050. Dual listed with INST 5050. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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3.00 Credits
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have grown exponentially in number and are often viewed as the new and best vehicle for international development. Focuses on international non-governmental organizations (INGOs), in contexts of Western aid to post-colonial societies and the role they play in the international aid system. Understand INGOs from historical, global, and cultural perspectives. Cross listed with INST 5060. Prerequisites: Junior standing and instructor consultation.
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3.00 Credits
African American discourse and its relationship to equality and participation. Through examiniation of various media, music, speeches, and art this course uses the struggle of African Americans as an instructive exemplar, to come to terms with the philosophical concepts, political issues, moral complexities, and discursive characteristics of African American Rhetoric. Dual listed with AAST 4160; cross listed with COJO 5160. Prerequisites: 9 credit hours in AAST or COJO.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the effects of racism on African people in America using an African centered framework. We will look at the ways racism intersects with sexism, classism, and heterosexism/homophobia within the African community both in America and throughout the Diaspora. Prerequisites: AAST 1000 or any AAST 2000 level course, junior/senior standing, or nine credits in any level course in COJO; graduate student standing.
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3.00 Credits
Examine the role mass media plays in the Black community and other racial, ethnic, gendered, and socioeconomic communities. Students will develop a critical understanding of the way the mass media uses stereotypes and prejudice to influence society's views about ethnic minorities and women in in contemporary United States society. Cross listed with WMST 5233 and COJO 5233. Dual listed with AAST 4233. Prerequisite: three credit hours in AAST, COJO, or WMST, WB, and junior standing.
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3.00 Credits
Examines the florescence of African American creativity, centered in Harlem, New York, between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression. This movement had a tremendous impact on African American culture in and outside of the U.S., including Africa and the Caribbean. Cross listed with AMST 5250. Dual listed with AAST 4250. Prerequisites: AAST 1000, AMST 2010, AMST 2110 or any AAST 2000-level course, junior or senior standing, or nine credit hours in any level AMST course: graduate standing.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes concepts of ableism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, and socioeconomic class through a critical/social construction framework. It attempts to develop a "working" definition of these concepts by analyzing historical and current conceptualizations and identifying marginalization and disenfranchisement as it is woven in the fabric of American society. Cross listed with COJO 5260. Dual listed with AAST 4260 and COJO 4260. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
Engage in an in-depth study of the literary voices that emerged from the history of enslavement in the Americas from colonial times through the end of Reconstruction in 1877. Cross listed with ENGL 5455. Dual listed with AAST 4455. Prerequisite: graduate status or 12 hours of 3000-4000 level work.
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3.00 Credits
Approach African American popular culture from theoretical perspectives which include black feminist, postcolonial, and poststructuralist analyses. Cross listed with AMST 5560. Prerequisites: graduate standing; instructor consent for undergraduate students.
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3.00 Credits
Analyzes concepts of ableism, anti-Semitism, heterosexism, racism, sexism, and socioeconomic class through a critical/social construction framework. It attempts to develop a "working" definition of these concepts by analyzing historical and current conceptualizations and identifying marginalization and disenfranchisement as it is woven in the fabric of American society. Cross listed with COJO 5985. Dual listed with AAST 4985 and COJO 4985. Prerequisite: graduate standing.
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