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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; practicum, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Studies theories and practices of comparative ethnic political change. Examines topics intrinsic to the understanding of how to effect political change within the Chicano, African American, Asian American, Native American, and other ethnic communities, as well as the dominant societies. Fulfills the Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. The Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. The main focus will be on the "grass roots." AfricanAmerican aspects of "The Movement," as it was popularlyknown, from school desegregation to voting rights and beyond. Cross-listed with HISA 135. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. Considers the writings and collective organizational strategies of African American women intellectuals and activists developed in response to the ways racial, sexual, and economic oppression work interdependently and are institutionalized. Beginning with early women's slave narratives, follows black women's agendas for social change to the present. Cross-listed with HISA 134. Fulfills either the Humanities or Social Sciences requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, but not both.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Critical readings of Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American authors. Overview of contemporary literature (1970 to present) written by Latinas who reside permanently in the United States. Theatre, poetry, and narrative is closely examined and compared. Focuses on the political, historical, social, and cultural processes that gives rise to this literature. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Selected topics addressing the issues of the Native American. Includes reading, research, and discussion on the Native American experience. F. Early America: Emerging Interpretations. Cross-listed with HISA 144 (E-Z). Segments fulfill the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Explores the medical history of Native Americans. Focuses on traditional Native American medicine and how Western diseases, medical practices, health care, and policies influenced American Indian health. Topics include medicine people, rituals, ceremonies, smallpox, measles, influenza, anomie, accidents, diabetes, suicides, mental illness, and murders. Crosslisted with HISA 147. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; term paper, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. A thematic and topical approach to the study of African history from the early Nile Valley civilizations to the twentieth century. Examines the temporal and spatial development of African societies- including their social, political, economic, and ideological systems-during the precolonial, colonial, and postcolonial periods. F. West African History to 1800; I. Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Africa and European Imperialism; J. Ancient Africa; K. Africa from 1000-1880; M. Twentieth-Century Africa. Crosslisted with HIST 137 (E-Z). See the Student Affairs Office in the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences for breadth requirement information.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upperdivision standing or consent of instructor. An overview of African performance, addressing the large culture areas of the continent. Emphasizes African aesthetics. Special attention is paid to contemporary popular music, its roots in older genres, and its ongoing role in postcolonial politics. Cross-listed with MUS 129. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; individual study, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Investigates growth and evolution of the relationship between African Americans and Native Americans. Focuses on selected Native American nations and their relationship with transplanted Africans, blended communities of blacks and Indians, the process of transculturalization, black Indians as outlaws, and blacks and Indians in a modern educational experiment. Fulfills the Social Science requirement of the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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4.00 Credits
Lecture, 3 hours; extra reading, 3 hours. Prerequisite(s): upper-division standing or consent of instructor. Study of representative works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from the 1960s to the present. Emphasis upon the works of Louise Erdrich, Joy Harjo, N. Scott Momaday, Simon Ortiz, Leslie Silko, Gerald Vizenor, and James Welch, among others. Fulfills the Humanities requirement for the College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences.
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