Course Catalog - Africana Studies
AFST 110 - Introduction to Africana Studies
Annually
Interdisciplinary introduction to the study, research, and interpretation of historical, cultural, social and political knowledge of African American, African, and Caribbean peoples examining contemporary black identities, politics, and culture, particularly focusing on the role and place of blacks in modern American cities through exploration of international migrations, race relations, and 20th-century cultural movements, including civil rights, social protest music, art and literature. Addresses the cultural, historical, political, economic, and psychological consequences of the dispersal of Africans from their ancestral continent to the United States and the Caribbean and the impact of the cultures of West and central Africa in the United States and the Caribbean, through oral narratives, music, art, festivals, foodways, clothing, hairstyles, dance, and religious belief systems. Introduces literary and political movements including Pan-Africanism, black feminism, Negritude, Harlem Renaissance, and other activities reflecting shared theories, ideologies and political movements of Africans, African Americans and Caribbean blacks. One unit.
AFST 110 - Introduction to Africana Studies
ANTH 260 - Constructing Race
ANTH 272 - Culture & Identity in the Caribbean
EDUC 273 - Urban Education
ENGL 368 - African American Literature
ENGL 372 - Contemporary African-American Literature and Culture
HIST 137 - American Slavery, American Freedom
HIST219, 220 - African American History I, II
HIST223 - Radicalism in America
HIST 225 - The Civil Rights Movement
MUSC 150 - American Music
MUSC 151 - World Music
MUSC 218 - Jazz Improvisation I
MUSC 219 - Jazz Improvisation II
POLS 205 - Race and Politics
POLS 261 - Contemporary African Politics
POLS 263 - Black Political and Social Thought
POLS 270 - Africa and the World
POLS 300 - Law, Politics, and Society
PSYC 341 - Seminar: Racial/ Ethnic Group Contact
RELS 207 - Introduction to Islam
RELS 315 - Islamic Philosophy and Theology
RELS 376 - North American Theology of Liberation
SOCL 203 - Race and Ethnic Relations
SOCL 243 - African American Social and Religious Thought
STWL 235 - Introduction to Post-Colonial Theory
STWL 261 - Exile & Cultural Production in Africa & the Caribbean
STWL 267 - Post-Colonial Writing: African and the Caribbean Experience
THEA 141 - Jazz Dance I, II
VAHI 104 - Introduction to Islamic Art
VAHI 105 - Art of Africa & the Americas
For details on the above courses, please see the respective departmental listings.
* The courses listed above are taken directly from the official College Catalog.