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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Examines the history and roles of blacks and other racialethnic groups in the American media, focusing, in particular, on the role of racism and ethnocentrism in their experiences, as well as on how they are portrayed.
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3.00 Credits
Explores the African American oral-cultural tradition from the Blues (Delta, Texas, Memphis, Piedmont), Urban Blues (Classic, Kansas City, Rhythm and Blues), Funk, Soul, Disco, New Jack Swing to Rap, and Hip-Hop. Focus will be on its evolution and development as a cultural art form. Within this context, its relevance and impact will be examined relative to the African American experience and how this music has helped to shape and define African American culture in particular and American culture in general.
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3.00 Credits
The music of Africa and that of African Americans has become interwoven with that of the Americas. This course provides students with a better knowledge and understanding of the evolution and development of African American music and its various forms and styles from African Roots to Spirituals, Work Songs, Blues, Gospel, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues (Funk, Soul etc.), Latin (Afro-Cuban, Samba, Meringue etc.), Reggae, Fusion, Rap/ Hip-Hop, within a sociocultural and historical context.
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3.00 Credits
An exploration of the African, African American, and Caribbean experience through the medium of theatre.
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to the sociocultural and historical traditions that have survived and aided in the survival of the African American family, as well as those various forces that have continuously eroded its social fabric and stability. It offers theoretical exposition of the nature and features of the black family with comparative concepts and practices of love, marriage, divorce, illegitimacy, homosexuality, and other aspects of the black family.
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3.00 Credits
Survey of social and political changes in precolonial Africa. Focuses on ancient civilizations, precolonial states, internal markets, and the Atlantic trade.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide a survey of the major social and political changes in Africa during and after the colonial period. Humanities and Social Science158 s
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3.00 Credits
An introductory course designed to explore and examine the origin, evolvement, and meaning of African art. In addition to highlighting the forms, styles, and expressions of African art, the course examines the role of art in African life.
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3.00 Credits
After a survey of the African heritage, including slavery, a study is made of the history of people of African descent in their New World environment. The role of African Americans in the development of the United States to the Civil War is examined.
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3.00 Credits
Beginning with an examination of the period of Reconstruction, the course explores the various survival tactics of African Americans and the effects of governmental and societal action or inaction on their lives up to the present.
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