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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course examines drugs and crime from an African perspective. It traces the history of cannabis use in sub-Saharan Africa. Th e course also examines how Africa was used by drug traffi ckers as a transit point for heroin and cocaine destined for Europe and the United States. Th e course also examines how the international drug traffi cking spillover eff ect has resulted in consumption of hard drugs and psychotropic substances in sub-Saharan African countries. Th e drugs’ use and misuse are examined in relation to the emergence of drug addicts, HIV/AIDS and other health problems, crime, homelessness, unemployment, violence and organized crime. It will also examine the role played by police narcotics units and the emergence of Narcotic Control Boards. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Examination of the philosophical base of African customary law. Traditional theories of crime prevention, punishment, and the dispensation of justice in selected pre-colonial African societies. Th e enforcement of laws by the traditional community and traditional courts, and community involvement in the prevention of crime. African laws under colonialism and in contemporary independent nations. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will study the role of the police as a law enforcement arm of government and as a peacekeeping force. Th e study will focus on the role of the police in the pre-colonial period of Africa, the colonial period and the period aft er independence. In each of these periods, the study will highlight the type of laws that were used to govern the populace. Th e body of laws include: a) African community law, as used during the pre-colonial period; b) Colonial laws during the colonial era; c) Modern African law, being a combination of African customary law and the recent laws inundated by the national legislation. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will focus on examples of restorative justice from Africa and the Pacifi c Islands, a seldom-considered part of the African Diaspora. To that end, this course will explore how an African philosophy of “ubuntu”(or “humanity towards others”) infl uences Africa’s notions of justicecommunity and suff ering. Comparisons will be drawn with traditional western views of restorative justice. Unlike the traditional justice system found in the U.S. and in other parts of the world that focus on punishing criminal behavior, restorative justice mirrors the way that disputes are settled in tribes — off enders make amends not only to victims but their communities. Prerequisites: ENG 101 and sophomore standing or above.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will examine crime in the Caribbean with a particular focus on the diff erences and similarities among the Spanish-, English-, French- and Dutch-speaking nations of the Caribbean region. Th e course will study the trends in crime in the Caribbean from a comparative perspective, and the methods employed by various individual nations to help diminish crime and delinquency. Th e specifi c topics to be studied include political crime and off enses, political corruption, drug dealing and traffi cking, juvenile delinquency, domestic violence and sexual assault in the Caribbean. Th is course can be used to satisfy requirements for the international criminal justice major. Prerequisite: ENG 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS A study of the writing of African Americans from colonial times to the present, with special attention to infl uential African-American writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Toomer, Hughes, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka and Malcolm X. Readings in novels, plays, autobiographies, short stories, poems, folktales and essays will explore a wide range of African-American aesthetic responses to life in the United States. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and ENG 102 or ENG 201
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS An examination of African-American life through the works of both African-American and white writers. Th e course will look at the interrelationships and diff erences between African-American and white perspectives. Authors such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Melville, Wright, Baldwin, Mark Twain, Faulkner, Ellison, Welty and Baraka will be read. Prerequisite: one of the following: LIT 230, LIT 231, LIT 232 or LIT 233
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Survey and critique of the major theoretical perspectives on African- American psychological development. Overview of the psychological experience of African-Americans, particularly those responses that foster sound psychological functioning despite oppressive or distorting social feedback. Application of psychological concepts and principles to the African-American experience.
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS A study of the origins of oppression and its psychological eff ects on various racial and ethnic groups. Comparative analysis of the responses of African-Americans and other selected groups to oppression. Examination of the similarities and diff erences in patterns of adaptation to abuses of power and authority. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and AAP 129/PSY 129 or PSY 101
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3 HOURS, 3 CREDITS Th is course will examine and analyze critical psychological theories and research that address various forms of the African-American family. Th ere will be an overview of the political, cultural and economic factors that have contributed to both the forms and functions of the African- American family over the past 400 years. Students will also closely examine current family forms such as extended family, single parent families and nuclear families. Th ey will also discuss the role that both resident and non-resident fathers play, the challenges of gender and the role of education. Students will utilize material from diverse data sets including census data, various theoretical approaches and personal experiences to develop an appreciation of the psychological dynamics of various forms of African- American family life. Prerequisites: ENG 101, and ETH 123 or ETH 125
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