Fall 2012 Courses
| AFS 201 Introduction to African American Studies (AFS, GHP, GMO) | |
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Introduction to African American culture through a historical and social perspective. |
| AFS 210 Blacks in American Society: Social, Economic, and Political Perspectives (AFS, GSB) | |
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Social, political, economic experience of blacks in the United States. Topics include the black family, Civil Rights Movement, black politicians, and blacks in the labor market. 210-01 TR 2:00-3:15pm (Woods) |
| AFS 300-01 Afrian American Poetry (Meachum) (AFS) | |
| MWF 9:00-9:50am Beginning with Phyllis Wheatley and ending somewhere close to Tupac Shakur, we will examine African American poets and their contribution to the Black Aesthetic. Our text is The Norton Anthology of African American Literature edited by Henry Louis Gates and Nellie McKay. |
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| AFS 305-01 Special Topics: Harlem Renaissance (Instructor TBA) (AFS) | |
MWF 12:00-12:50pm The course will focus on the works of Zora Neale Hurston and other writers of the period |
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| AFS 315-01 Theories and Paradigms in African American Studies (Cauthen) (AFS) | |
MWF 10:00-10:50am This course will explore the history, development, and reception of African American public intellectuals of the 20th and 21st Centuries, including Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Cornel West, and Thomas Chatterton Williams. Additionally, the course will focus on various intellectual traditions and turns, with themes such as cultural memory, Jazz and Blues, post/modernism, historiography, black existentialism, gender and sexuality, aesthetics, “Soul,” folklore, afrocentricity, and social/political resistance. |
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| AFS 330-01 Black Music and Cultural History (Woods) (AFS) | |
TR 11:00-12:15pm This course examines African American urban music from the 1960s and 1970s as cultural history. The music and the musicians who created it will be explored and examined as a reflector of social, political, and economic conditions within Black America and its impact on mainstream America's perception of black character, behavior and creativity. This course focuses on the musical genres of rhythm and blues, soul, disco and funk and analyzes their insights into the black perspective and aesthetic. |
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| AFS 355-01 Making of the African Diaspora (Ali) (AFS, IGS) | |
| TR 11:00-12:pm The course explores the history and cultures of the global African Diaspora beginning with African societies, moving into the Indian Ocean world, and concluding with the Atlantic world. How did Africans and their descendents shape these different regions of the world economically, politically, and culturally? The course will explore this rich history through a combinarion of primary and secondary sources. |
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| AFS 410-01 Seminar in African American Studies (Cervenak) (AFS, SI, WGS, WI) | |
TR 2:00-3:15pm This course is the capstone for those majoring in African American Studies. The first half of the semester will consist of readings that address the debates surrounding the field of African American studies itself, identity and community, gender and sexuality, and the politics of representation. This second half will involve the development of a research paper. |
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