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3.00 Credits
3 Credits 3 Hours Pre/Co-requisites: ENG 110 This course provides an introduction to the discipline of Black Studies. Students are broadly acquainted with continental and Diaspora African history, religion, sociology, politics, economics, arts and psychology.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3103) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisites: ENG 091 or ESL 091 This course is designed to provide a broad acquaintance with African history, civilization, and culture from the earliest times to the 16th century. The course will discuss the origins and development of civilization in Africa, focusing on the oral civilizations, ancient African kingdoms, the African middle ages, traditional and foreign missionary religions, and Africa before the advent of the Europeans.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3104) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre-requisite: ENG 091 or ESL 091 This course is designed to provide a broad acquaintance with modern African social history, civilization, and culture. After a quick overview of the period of Oral Civilization and the colonial partition of Africa, the continuity and development of African culture and civilization will be analyzed: Its social and political institutions, its people and the growing social issues which confront African society today. The course will explore the social, political, economic, and intellectual dimensions of African life through a wide variety of readings from the various disciplines of history, anthropology, political science, literature, music, and the arts.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3106) 3 credits, 3 hours The student will be introduced, through a series of guided readings, to the experiences of peoples of African descent from Africa's genesis through the middle passage, slavery, emancipation, the reconstruction and the aftermath of de jure slavery in the Americas.The literary, economic, socio-psychological, and cultural aspects of the African-American experience till the end of the 19th century will be discussed and analyzed.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3119) 3 credits, 3 hours The student will trace the history of African-American religion as a continuation of African religions as well as a response to the experience of the Diaspora. Major emphasis will be placed on the church as an integral part of the African-American community.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly HUM 3021) 3 credits, 3 hours Co-requisite: SPA 121 or ENG 091 This foundation course is the study of various racial, ethnic and cultural components of the Americas society from the 16th century to the present. Historical and contemporary issues of the American mosiac will be surveyed as they relate to race, ethnicity, religion, cultural diversity and pluralism. The course will explore a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases in assimilation, discrimination and reverse discrimination, integration, racism, segregation, social harmony, coexistence, and the future of racial and ethnic groups and cultures in the United States. This is, therefore, a course aimed at understanding and analyzing the various situations of our different and differing American populations, suggesting a comparative comprehension of various patterns of group relations.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3124) 3 credits, 3 hours The student will analyze various aspects of social problems which affect disadvantaged and multicultural communities, including drugs, housing, welfare, and crime, with respect to their etiology, as well as strategies for amelioration.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3172) Pre-requisite: ENG 111 3 credits, 3 hours The student will identify the main sources and trace the thematic development of African oral and written literature. The student will discuss and evaluate the contribution of literature to African historiography. The student will discuss, analyze, and criticize representative works from such countries as Nigeria, Kenya, and Ethiopia. The works considered will be from the earliest times to the present. Credit will be awarded in either English or Africana Studies. 84
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 310) 3 credits, 3 hours Pre/Co-requisites: ENG 091; ESL 091 This course is designed to explore the cultural, literary, intellectual, political, moral, artistic and social values of people of Africa and the African Diaspora as represented in the literature of the Negritude Movement. The course will trace the development of Negritude as a political, literary, cultural, moral movement which attempts to rehabilitate the people of African descent from the psychological and moral degradation of slavery, colonialism and imperialism. The inter-relationship between the Negritude Movement, the Harlem Renaissance and the Pan Africanist Movement will be explored. The critique of Negritude by Anglo-phone African writers and intellectuals will be examined. The issue of alienation, and the dilemma of the assimilated African (l'evolue, l'assimile) will beemphasized.
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3.00 Credits
(Formerly CUB 3174) 3 credits, 3 hours The student will survey the literature from the slave narratives to the present time. S/he will relate the literature to the historical and cultural context in which it is set. S/he will analyze and criticize such writers as Isaac Jefferson, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and John A. Williams. Credit will be awarded in English and Africana Studies.
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