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3.00 Credits
Independent research directed by the Africana Studies staff. Required of all majors; ordinarily to be undertaken in the Fall semester of the senior year. Staff
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3.00 Credits
A continuation of independent research directed by the Africana Studies staff. Prerequisite: AFS 490. Students may also select electives for the AFS major and minor from topics courses offered by the following departments: American Studies, Anthropology, Economics, English, Government, History, Judaic Studies, Music, Psychology, Religious Studies, and Sociology. Topics courses taken in these departments will count toward the AFS major only if they primarily address issues surrounding Africa and the African Diaspora and are alternatively designated "AFS."
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary introduction to American identity. Examines expressions of national identity in arts and popular culture. Pays particular attention to race, ethnicity, and gender from the 19th through the early 20th centuries. Staff
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3.00 Credits
A first-year seminar that investigates the varied cultural meanings of the American Dream. Examines the classic definition of success as expressed in the writings of Benjamin Franklin, Horatio Alger, Jr., and Booker T. Washington. Explores competing definitions, as well as critiques, of America's cultural mythologies of success. Syllabus has included literary and popular fiction and non-fiction by E. L. Doctorow, Barbara Ehrenreich, Richard Nixon, Norman Vincent Peale and films by Robert Altman and Michael Moore. Same as ENG 107. Frick
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3.00 Credits
The development of the United States as a global and multiracial society. Topics can include the transatlantic slave trade in the 18th and 19th centuries; Pan Africanism, mass media in the African Diaspora; the Harlem Renaissance, and Civil Rights movement. Same as AFS 150. Staff
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3.00 Credits
Surveys the dominant tradition of American religious practice: spirituality. The goals of this course encompass the study of different forms of spirituality in the United States past and present. The course will familiarize you with mainstream as well as alternative spiritual practices, from Puritan Devotions and the Lakota Sundance to evangelicalism, political radicalism, and various modes of artistic production. The course seeks to trace major outlines of development from past to present and to illuminate the meaning of spirituality for our time and in relation to American history. Same as RST 167. Lardas Modern
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3.00 Credits
Examines the relationship between religion and culture in the United States from approximately 1492 to the present. In addition to looking at liturgical forms of religion and surveying various religious movements and groups, we will explore 1) how cultural forms serve as vehicles of religious meaning; 2) how religious values are expressed and/or criticized in everyday social life; and 3) the interaction between religion and developments within the political, social, economic, and philosophical spheres. Same as RST 203. Lardas Modern
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to film studies using black film as a genre of Hollywood and independent film. Covers the work of Oscar Michaux through the "blaxploitation" films of the 1970s and beyond. Exploresfilms as social commentary in their particular historical contexts. Particular attention is given to screen analysis of segregation, sexuality, class differences, and more. Same as AFS/TDF/WGS 213. Staff
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3.00 Credits
An introductory examination of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. We will read some of the representative texts and analyze how they engaged imaginatively the cultural, political, and aesthetic concerns of the movement. Same as AFS/ENG 216. Bernard
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3.00 Credits
Although many consider globalization a late 20th century phenomenon, the history of British America and of the United States has always been inextricably tied to global systems, events, and developments. This course will look at how an "American" culture has been forged in a world context byexploring key economic and political developments that bind the U.S. and its history to the rest of the world. Reilly
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