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  • ABD 208 AFR: Amer: Ppl/ Cultre/ Ideas/ Movm

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    The objective of the course is to introduce the student to the history of the field of African American Studies. The course will be organized around two inquiries central to the field. First, the study the nature and quality of the connections between Africans in the diaspora, particularly in the United States, with the cultures and histories of Africans on the continent. Second, to study the ways in African Americans have developed an specific consciousness of being of African descent. These two inquiries will be examined in their cultural, economic, geographical, historical, philosophical and political contexts. This course will also place the field of African American studies within the context o its formation. Although the pioneering programs and departments were incorporated into college and university curriculums in the late 1960's and early 1970's
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  • ABD 210: Africa on Film

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    Africa is a continent with a rich and growing repertoire of film. This course explores this repertoire, focusing primarily on films made about Africa by filmmakers of African descent. This class will feature fiction and non-fiction films (full-length and shorts) by well-known filmmakers of African descent. In addition to screenings, students will read essays that illuminate the background necessary to intelligently interpret and critique film. Topics for discussion include the funding, distribution, and presentation of African Films as well as modes of criticism appropriate to film made by Africans and the relation filmmaking to history. Film directors include Souleymane Cisse, Bassek ba Kobhio, Jean-Marie Teno, Djibril Dio Mambety, Mohamad Camara, and Ousmane Sembene.
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  • ABD 211 AFRICA: Age of Empires

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    A study of African history from earliest times, concentrating on the political, social and religious aspects of major African states and empires.
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  • ABD 212: Intercultural Communication

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    Examines the role culture plays in interethnic and international communication. Explores differences and similarities in cultural values and communication behaviors between and among diverse cultures and develops cultural competence. Critiques stereotypes and increases cultural sensitivity.
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  • ABD 214: Archeology/ African Diaspora

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    Africans have been on the move since the dawn of humanity. Archaeology is one discipline that can inform us about the presence and influence of Africans throughout the world, beginning with our hominid ancestors and continuing through the 20th century. Prior experience with archaeology is not required. Topics include: the evolution and development of our species; migrations within the African continent and abroad; and the cultural insights to be gained from the rapidly-growing field of African-American archaeology.
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  • ABD 215: African American Relig Exper

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    This course will examine the religious experience of African Americans and its African precursors through historical and literary resources, reflecting African Americans' distinctive past and interaction with other elements of American culture.
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  • ABD 218: African American Politics

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    This course explores the evolution of African-American political participation from the mid-1800's to the present. Topical areas include black political leadership and involvement in social movements (including abolitionism, nationalism, civil rights and the black power movements), electoral politics, political parties, urban politics, public policies, political culture, and as elected officials. Special attention will also be given to the influence of laws and the courts on African-Americans' political participation.
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  • ABD 220: Blacks And Love

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    This course employs cultural criticism, race and ethnic studies, and women's and gender studies to examine the visual representations of blacks and love in art, film, and literature. The course begins by examining the construction of race in eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth-century European and American philosophy and body politic and with an examination of art, art history, film, and literature. Section two explores the definition of love; it examines Christian definitions of love as well as secular definitions from black intellectuals, cultural critics, and scholars. Section three examines a range of genres in search of progressive, transformative, positive images that depict blacks in loving relationships, rediscovering what it means to love oneself and others in spite of/because of our human differences (in race/ethnicity, gender, class, sexuality).
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  • ABD 231: Philosophy/ Question of Race

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    A philosophical inquiry into history of the concept of race.
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  • ABD 233: Afrcn Diasporc Intellctl Thght

    4.00 Credits
    DePaul University

    This survey course examines the philosophical and critical thought from African American, Caribbean, and African philosophers, feminists, political, and radical intellectuals. The thinkers to be studied include, but are not limited to, Du Bois, Garvey, James, Lamming, Williams, Senghor, Fanon, Hodge, Wynter, Lorde, Soyinka, hooks, Emecheta, and Conde.
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