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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
This course is a survey of the social, economic, political, intellectual and cultural heritage of the African peoples from pre-history to the present. The emphasis is on the internal dynamics of the African society through five millennia, as well as the impact of external forces on African life. Themes of particular interest: the roots of African culture, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the African Diaspora in the New World, the European Conquest and the character of the colonial order and the ongoing struggle to end the legacy of alien domination. (YR)
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3.00 Credits
A study of African-American literature designed to expose students to important periods, works, and authors within historical context. Topics will include slavery, reconstruction, the Great Migration, the Harlem Renaissance, and the contemporary renaissance in Black women's literature. Students will be required to read critically, discuss, analyze, and write their responses to the several literary genres that will be incorporated (fiction, drama, poetry). (YR).
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3.00 Credits
This gateway course in the AAAS minor will engage the students in the intellectual issues, historical perspectives and cultural debates in African and African American Studies. Using a trans-disciplinary approach, the AAAS faculty teaching this course as a team will draw from the disciplinary strengths of the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Behavioral Sciences. Texts will include literature, film, music, art, theater, and other forms of popular and folk culture. This course will routinely invite speakers and performers to the class and engage the campus community in these events. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
This course will trace the experience of African Americans from their first landing in Virginia in 1619 through slavery and the Civil War. Emphasis will be placed on the origins of racism, the development of the slave system in the United States and the historical developments that led to the Civil War. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
A consideration of ethnic (including racial, sexual, and religious) prejudice from the psychological point of view, focusing on the mind of both the oppressor and the oppressed. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
An analysis of the economic aspects of poverty and discrimination. Emphasis on the theoretical economic causes of poverty and the economic bases for discriminating behavior, the impact of poverty and discrimination on individuals and society, and the effect of reform policies on the two problems. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
This course explores the history and aesthetics of Black sacred music within cultural context. Major figures (Thomas A. Dorsey, Mahalia Jackson, The Winans Family, Kirk Franklin), periods (slavery, Great Migration, Civil Rights movement), and styles (folk and arranged Negro spirituals, congregational songs, and gospel songs - traditional to contemporary) will be studied through recordings, videos, films, and at least one field experience. Underlying the course is the theory (Mellonee Burnim and Pearl Williams-Jones) that gospel music is an expression of African American culture that fuses both African and European elements into a unique whole. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
An evolutionary survey of the biological differences among human populations in response to such factors as climate, culture, disease, nutrition and urbanization. The meaning of racial variation is discussed in terms of adaptation to environmental stress. "Race" is rejected, racism is discussed. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
A history of the West African peoples since 1800, which focuses on their unique cultural heritage. Themes include: West Africa before the advent of alien domination, the European Conquest, West Africa under the Colonial regimes, and the liquidation of colonial rule and the reassertion of West African independence. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
The history of Blacks in America is traced from the Reconstruction era and the rise of Jim Crow segregation to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960's and the current period. Special attention is paid to the migration of blacks to the north and the social-economic situation which they encountered there. Specific topics to be addressed include formation of the NAACP. (AY).
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