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4.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary course designed to introduce students to the field of African American studies. Focuses upon subject matter, scope, assumptions, and methods of various academic disciplines that are constituent parts of the African American Studies Program and seeks to show how these disciplines collectively contribute to the broadest understanding of the African American experience and, thus, of the general American experience from a black perspective. Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: . Provides a general introduction to and overview of the canon of African American literature. By examining a variety of texts, genres, themes, and issues in literature by black Americans, this course seeks to establish foundations and achievements of African American literary tradition. 2H
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5.00 Credits
Historical analysis of images of blacks in cinema, radio, and television programming; origin and development of stereotypes; relationship of these images to societal developments; examination of alternatives. Credit Hours: 5 General Education Code: 2HL Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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5.00 Credits
Historical-social analysis of development of colonialism in Africa, how colonialism led to underdevelopment of Africa, and review of ideological justification of this phenomenon. Special focus placed on development of colonialism in 19th and 20th centuries up to the Year of Africa (1960). Specific attention given to ideological contribution of Frantz Fanon to the colonial situation. Combination of books in fields of history, psychology, economics, and literature so student will obtain an integral picture of the colonial period. Credit Hours: 5 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Explores historical and philosophical foundations, development of education for African Americans, and formulations of the dual educational system. Makes comparisons and contrasts among various philosophical views that have shaped formation of American educational institutions, theories, and practices. Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
By examining the historical and legal antecedents of present controversies surrounding race and ethnicity in the United States, this course helps students understand and discuss intelligently such issues. Students examine five major public policy issues directly affecting African Americans. The issues will build upon one another and will range in time from the creation of the U.S. Constitution to the present. Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken one time excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: . Survey of key economic, political, ideological, and social elements that have shaped destinies of black people in the United States from 1865 to present. 2S
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: AAS 110 OR TIER I ENG. First course of 2-qtr survey of African American literature. Covers period from about 1760 to end of Harlem Renaissance. Focuses on such writers as Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Charles W. Chesnutt, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, and writers of Harlem Renaissance--Claude McKay, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston. Folk literature and other materials important to an understanding of African American literary tradition will be included. 2H
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4.00 Credits
Prereq: AAS 110 OR TIER I ENG. Begins where 210 ends. (However, 210 is not a prereq.) Treats African American literary expression from around 1940 to present. Writers included are Richard Wright, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Ishmael Reed, and others who have contributed to African American literary tradition. 2H
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4.00 Credits
Exploration of theories or political policies and economic processes, their interrelations, and their influence on the socioeconomic character of the black community. Credit Hours: 4 Repeat/Retake Information: May be retaken an unlimited number of times, but only last course taken counts. Note: Effective Summer Quarter 2010-11 (June 2011) any non-repeatable course may be retaken two times excluding withdrawals, but only last course taken counts.
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