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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examines the literature of the Islands within the context of historical, social, political, and economic circumstances that manifest themselves across linguistic boundaries. This seminar is devoted to major prose works written in English or in translation. Includes introductory lectures that examine broader issues relating to Caribbean literature. The class experience is enriched by videos and guest lecturers. The creative prose works are selected with an eye to thematic and conceptual variety.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores the function of various societal traits that dominate a relationship and how religion, education, economic status, family beliefs, racial beliefs, and friends influence the way a couple interacts. There are many struggles in relationships that take on such forms as dominance or subservience, fear or hope, and jealously or acceptance.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC An exploration of family life in Africa and the United States. Compares family structure in an agrarian culture and an industrial society. Examines the influences of race, class, religion, and government on the family. Topics also include familial responsibilities of health, education and general welfare.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores the origin and development of the African American church and its role in the sociopolitical and economic organization of African Americans in a comprehensive historical and sociological overview of the African American religious experience. The course examines elements of the black church that have survived from Africa and includes considerations of the black presence in the Bible. It considers in some details the enlarged black church in the post-emancipation era, including its social roles in the economy, education, etc., and its transformation during the great migration of the World War I Era. The course also considers the contribution of black theology to modern black liberation and the Civil Rights movement.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Simultaneously examines two centuries of black middle class virtues and vices, while each student carries out a self-examination of his/her own middle-class status and/or aspirations. Achieves the second exercise with the aid of interest tests that serve as guides for each student s five-year plan after graduation.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Semester: Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: LEC Introduction to how gender shapes the experiences of women and men of African descent. Emphasis is placed on Black women s experiences in families, at work, with the media, with sexuality and fertility, and with political activism.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Addresses issues of health and disease in the African Diaspora from the point of view of African people s biology and culture. Includes African healing traditions in the Caribbean and North America, as well as black responses to modern medical revolutions. Examines selected public health issues in black communities, such as AIDS and homicide.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Explores the cultural development of African Americans during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth century. Requires students to be familiar with the secondary literature on African Americans history and culture. Also analyzes some aspects of black s social and political life in an urban setting.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Examines how African Americans view themselves and how they view the opportunities available to them. We look at how the supposed differences in the viewpoints of blacks and whites divide American society into the haves and the have-nots, and how the similarities remain a secret hidden by our educational system and mass media.
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3.00 Credits
Credits: 3 Prerequisites: None Corequisites: None Type: SEM Introduces the major images elements of sound, lights, space, and time-motion, and how they are used in film and television to influence perception. The course is designed to provide students with criteria to help them judge and experience media-articulated messages at different intellectual and emotional levels. Analyses and discusses specially selected television and film materials in terms of how media elements can be used to influence perception and emotions. Encourages students to do comparative analyses of different types of mass media communications to discover relevant cultural elements and the principles underlying their uses.
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