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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Growth and development of social, political, economic, cultural, and religious institutions of the African American community.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Race and representation in contemporary culture. An interdisciplinary examination of African American culture from the "Black Arts Movement" to the present. Novels, poetry,films, and music as cultural texts; and political discourses as cultural texts. Topics may include: the Black Aesthetic Movement, Malcolm X, Afrocentricity, multiculturalism, body politics, and the intersection of race and gender. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 23.2.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Research methods and procedures for study of phenomena characteristic of the Black community. Development of the young Black child. Interviewing techniques, participant observation, historiography, quantitative methods and computer applications.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Study and analysis of peoples, forces, institutions, and cultures of the Caribbean. African, European, United States, and Western Hemisphere influences on Caribbean development. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 17.)
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Themes in the history of Africa south of the Sahara from earliest times to 1800. Salient themes include Nile Valley civilizations, trans-Saharan trade, early social and economic systems,West African states, especially the Empire of Mali, Islamic influences, state formation, Swahili coastal city states, and Indian Ocean trade. Origins, development, and consequences of the Atlantic slave trade; abolition. This course is the same as History 55.1. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 18.1.) Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.12, Core Studies 4 or 9, Core Curriculum 2.2, History 1, 2, 3, 4, 41.8, or 41.9, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Themes drawn from all regions of the continent of Africa south of the Sahara from 1800 to the present.The Islamic revolutions, the Zulu Empire and political evolution in South Africa, the rise of legitimate trade, the impact of European missionaries and explorers, imperialism, the colonial state, nationalist independence movements, and post independence challenges. This course is the same as History 55.2. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 18.2.) Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.12, Core Studies 4 or 9, Core Curriculum 2.2, History 1, 2, 3, 4, 41.8, or 41.9, or permission of the chairperson.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Introduction to history, art, philosophy and religion of the Nile Valley civilizations of Kemmet (Egypt), Ethiopia, Nubia, Kush. Ancient Ethiopian Kingdom of Axum, African links to Greece and Rome. Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.12, 0.2; Core Studies 1 or 9 or Core Curriculum 1.1 or 2.2.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits History of people and politics in southern Africa. Major political, economic, and social developments in the 19th and 20th centuries. Focus on South Africa as central to regional 86 Africana Studies economic and political evolution. (Not open to students who have completed Africana Studies 11.6.) Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.12, or 0.2; Core Studies 3 or 9 or Core Curriculum 2.2.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Creation and history of the African diaspora. Economic, political, and sociocultural interrelationships of Africa and the African diaspora. Prerequisite: one of the following: Africana Studies 0.3, Core Studies 4 or 9.
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3.00 Credits
3 hours; 3 credits Political developments in the African states. Patterns before and after independence. Development of nationalism. Political integration, institution building, one-party systems, role of the military, and protest movements. Problems of regional and African unity. This course is the same as Political Science 49.2. Prerequisite: one of the following: Political Science 1, 1.5, 5, Core Studies 3, Africana Studies 0.1, 0.11, or 0.12.
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