Overview of Africana studies as a field of investigation, its origins, and history. Formerly ETHN 2002. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity.
Examines selected case studies of African American collective behavior in a historical context. Emphasizes an in-depth investigation of the continuing African American struggle for social/democratic rights. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or contemporary societies.
Introductory course designed to acquaint students with historical and contemporary thinking, writings, and speeches of African Americans. Approved for GT-SS3. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or contemporary societies.
Surveys African American history. Studies, interprets and analyzes major problems, issues, and trends affecting African Americans from about 1600 to the present. Same as HIST 2437. Approved for arts and sciences core curriculum: human diversity or United States context.
Explores the technique, styles, and rhythms of regional and national cultures of Africa. Areas of concentration may vary each semester (e.g. Ghana, Mali, Guinea, etc.). Introduces signature attributes common to different countries' dance traditions and features discussions of the musical traditions, histories, cosmologies, philosophies and aesthetics to contextualize and increase familiarity. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours. Same as DNCE 2501.
Intensive examination of a particular topic, theme, issue, or problem concerning the African American presence, as chosen by the instructor. Sample offerings could include African American Pop Culture, the Civil Rights Movement, or other African American issues. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. Recommended prereq., ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001. Formerly ETHN 3022.
Examines critical questions posed by hip hop culture. Accentuated in this course are hip hops contributions to the political-economic, philosophical, and sociological study of race, racism, sexism, and sexuality. This course examines the ways in which hip hop, as a new social phenomenon, cultural force and aesthetic form, have influenced contemporary American and global culture. Recommended prereq., ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001.
Fosters a better understanding and appreciation of the role African Americans have played in the evolution and shaping of urban America. Employs techniques of urban studies to more effectively assess the many dimensions, subtitles, and insensitivities of life in the city. Recommended prereq., ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 and a working knowledge of U.S. and Afro-American history. Formerly ETHN 4252. Requisites: Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Explores the social, economic, political, historical,and cultural role of African American women from an interdisciplinary perspective. Special emphasis is placed on African American women's rich oral and literary tradition. Recommended prereq., ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 or WMST 2000. Same as WMST 3505.
Variable topic that allows intensive coverage of a subject, theme, or issue in African American studies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. ETHN 4102 and 5102 are the same course. Formerly ETHN 4652/5652. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
An intensive exploration and examination of the life and thought of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Special emphasis on the stages of his life and their corresponding productions. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Analyzes the life and thought of W.E.B. Du Bois for its contributions to interdisciplinary and intersectional studies. Emphasis will be placed on the innovative interdisciplinary and intersectional nature of Du Bois's epistemology and research methodology, as well as his participation in radical political and social movements. ETHN 4272 and 5272 are the same course. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Ethnic Studies (ETHN) majors only.
Analyzes the life and thought of Frantz Fanon for its contributions to interdisciplinary and intersectional studies. Emphasis will be placed on the innovative interdisciplinary and intersectional nature of Fanon's psychology, sociology and philosophical anthropology, as well as his participation in African and Caribbean anti-colonial movements. ETHN 4632 and 5632 are the same course. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Junior or Senior) Ethnic Studies (ETHN) majors only.
A review of the ideas, events, persons, organizations oriented to the quest for African American social justice in the decade of the sixties. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Provides advanced in-depth study of literatures written by ethnic American authors. Texts may be drawn from a range of African-American, Chicano/a, Latino/a, Asian American, Native American or Indigenous literature traditions. Topics vary each semester. Same as ENGL 4697. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to students with 57-180 credits (Juniors or Seniors).
Variable topic that allows intensive coverage of a subject, theme, or issue in African American studies. May be repeated up to 6 total credit hours on different topics. ETHN 4102 and 5102 are the same course. Formerly ETHN 4652/5652. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-).
Analyzes the life and thought of W.E.B. Du Bois for its contributions to interdisciplinary and intersectional studies. Emphasis will be placed on the innovative interdisciplinary and intersectional nature of Du Bois's epistemology and research methodology, as well as his participation in radical political and social movements. ETHN 4272 and 5272 are the same course. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
Analyzes the life and thought of Frantz Fanon for its contributions to interdisciplinary and intersectional studies. Emphasis will be placed on the innovative interdisciplinary and intersectional nature of Fanon's psychology, sociology and philosophical anthropology, as well as his participation in African and Caribbean anti-colonial movements. ETHN 4632 and 5632 are the same course. Requisites: Requires a prerequisite course of ETHN 1022 or ETHN 2001 (minimum grade D-). Restricted to graduate students only.
