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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Current or specialized topics will differ with instructor. Open to and appropriate for firstyear students. The class may be taken for credit more than once if content differs, but may be taken only once for the AAS minor.
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(same as HIS 179) An examination of the history of African Americans from their ancestral home in Africa to the end of the United States Civil War. The course encompasses introducing the cultures and civilizations of the African people prior to the opening up of the New World and exploring Black contributions to America up to 1865.
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(same as HIS 180) An examination of the history of African Americans from the end of legal slavery in the United States to the civil rights revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. The course is designed to explore the history of African Americans since the Reconstruction and their contributions to the civil rights revolution of the present era.
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4.00 Credits
(same as HON 220) This course chronicles the artistic expressions of African, Caribbean, Latin American, and African American people by exploring the links among indigenous African religious values, rituals and worldview, and the visual arts, musical, literary, and dramatic practices created throughout the African Diaspora. The ways in which African religions have informed global artistic preservations of an African worldview and the worldview's fusion with European and American cultures will be emphasized.
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4.00 Credits
(same as HIS 351) This introductory course surveys ancient and medieval African history through the eyes of male and female royalty, archaeologists, peasants, religious leaders and storytellers. While the course reconstructs the great civilizations of ancient Africa including Egypt, Zimbabwe, Mali, and others, it is not primarily focused on kings and leaders. Rather, the course explores how ordinary Africans ate, relaxed, worshiped, and organized their personal and political lives.
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4.00 Credits
(same as HIS 352) This course explores African history from 1800 up to the present. Using case studies, it will examine how wide-ranging social, political, and economic processes, the slave trade, colonial rule, African nationalism, independence, and new understandings of women's rights changed local people's lives.
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4.00 Credits
A sociological examination of race, ethnicity, class and gender in the English-speaking Caribbean. The course seeks to understand social inequalities in the English-speaking Caribbean and the consequences of those inequities on human experiences.
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4.00 Credits
A sociological approach to the Caribbean that uses history to explore the evolution of family, community, politics, faith, and the economy.
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4.00 Credits
(same as COM 235) A survey of the images of African Americans as presented in American film. Emphasizes the viewing of a selected number of works which depict various types of movie-myth African Americans.
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4.00 Credits
(same as MUS 245) An introduction to jazz music through an examination of its content, history and cultural legacy. The course begins with the emergence of jazz out of early African American musical forms, and considers the profound connection between the African American experience and the development of jazz. It is an examination of how jazz evolved through artistic and technological innovations as well as through cultural, commercial and political forces. The course engages students in critical listening and research-based writing skills.
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