303 Blacks, Film, and Society. 3 cr. Study of the interpretations of the Afro-American past conveyed via theatrical films and television; relationship to other images of blacks found throughout the popular culture; relationship to societal trends. P: So st.
320 Contemporary African Art. 3 cr. Particular attention to stylistic and technical developments in relationship to traditional African society and modernization. P: So st.
323 Gender, Race and Class: Women in U.S. History. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. Historical interplay of racism and sexism in the lives of Black and White women of different class backgrounds in the United States. P: So st.
324 Black Women in America: Reconstruction to the Present. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. Explores African American women's experience from waning days of slavery to present. Topics include slavery, emancipation, reconstruction, segregation, migration, urban and rural poverty, civil rights, nationalism, feminism and sexual politics. P: So st.
326 Race and Gender in Post-World War Ii U.S. Society. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. Assesses how race and gender (as well as socio-economic status, age, sexuality, region, etc.) shaped the experiences and options of African Americans, especially women, in U.S. society from Ww Ii to the present. P: So st.
330 African/Afro-American Historical Relationships: 1700 to the Present. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. Relationships between Africa and Afro-Americans in the U.S. from the time of the Atlantic slave trade to the present. Focus on resettlement, religion, education, and politics. P: So st.
366 Artistic/Cultural Images of Black Women. 3 cr. Cultural images by and about Black women; feminine creativity in the arts within their historical, cultural, social, and political contexts. P: So st or cons inst.
367 Art and Visual Culture: Women of the African Diaspora and Africa. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. This course focuses on the art and visual culture by/or pertaining to women throughout the African Diaspora and Africa. Though the focus is on 10th century art by black women, it will go into visual culture (art objects, photographs, images, dress, culturally-coded representation) concerning black women historically. P: Afro-Amer 242; majors only; So st or cons inst.
400 Music Cultures of the World: Africa, Europe, the Americas. (Crosslisted with Music) 3 cr. Explores the performance, transmission, and consumption of traditional and popular musics of Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Employs musical-analytic and critical approaches to trace transnational musical circulation. P: So st.
403 Black Music in American Literary Culture. 3 cr. The influence of Afro-American musical aesthetics on American Literary Culture. Emphasis on the literary use of blues, Jazz, and Funk Forms. P: Afro-Amer 156 or 308 or 309 or 310 or 311 or 315 or 316 or 409.
413 Contemporary African and Caribbean Drama. (Crosslisted with African) 3-4 cr. A critical study of the major works. P: Jr st or cons inst.
423 Black Feminisms. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. Examines the writings of Black feminists in order to foster interdisciplinary analyses of contemporary Black feminist thought. P: Women St 223 or Afro-Amer/ Women St 323.
424 Women's International Human Rights. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. An examination of the contemporary development of international human rights and women's rights, and the fundamental contradiction between them. Analyzes core themes and issues of women's international human rights. P: So st.
442 Discrimination and Prejudice in American Society. 3 cr. Psychosocial theories of prejudice and discrimination; sources, characteristics, and trends of racist beliefs; inter-group relations; relation of prejudice to discrimination; strategies for the reduction of prejudice and discrimination in the U.S. P: Jr st.
443 Mutual Perceptions of Racial Minorities. (Crosslisted with Asian Am) 3 cr. Survey course on the mutual perceptions of primarily people of African and Asian ancestry. It focuses on how these groups evaluate perceive and interact with one another and others such as Native Americans, whites and Hispanics. Social psychological perspectives are highlighted as is an international overview. P: Afro-Amer 151 or 673.
467 Slavery in the American South. 3 cr. Daily life in the slave community, enslavement rationale, resistance to enslavement, institutional profitability, and the physical and psychological effects of servitude. P: So st or cons inst.
469 Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts. 1-4 cr. Guest artists will offr interdisciplinary courses on topics appropriate to their specializations. P: Consent of department.
501 19th Century Afro-American Literature. 3 cr. Historical and critical analysis of the poetry, fiction, and drama of 19th century African American writers. Also focuses on the essays of major African American intellectuals such as W.E.B. DuBois and Anna Julia Cooper. P: Jr st & 3 cr intermed lit.
509 Seminar in Afro-American Music History and Criticism. (Crosslisted with Music) 3 cr. Introduction to historical research in and critical interpretation of Afro-American music. Consideration of standard musical and critical sources. P: Cons inst or Grad st.
519 African American Political Theory. (Crosslisted with Poli Sci) 3-4 cr. Explores a range of theories that African Americans have drawn upon to cope with and ameliorate their political circumstances in the United States within the specific parameters of political theory. P: One crse in political theory, moral philos or Afro-Amer studies highly recommended.
521 African American Families. (Crosslisted with Soc Work, HDFS) 3 cr. Historical background; variations in contemporary family patterns; courtship and marriage, reproduction, and socialization stresses; "culture of poverty" theories; sources of stability and change. P: Jr st or cons inst.
523 Race, American Medicine and Public Health. (Crosslisted with Med Hist, Hist Sci) 3 cr. The course will provide historical perspectives on current dilemmas facing black patients and health care professionals. P: Jr or Sr st.
525 Major Authors. 3 cr. Intensive literary criticism of the works of selected authors. Emphasis on fiction, but non-fiction when appropriate. Works of one or two authors. P: Jr st & minimum of 2 crses in lit.
540 The Art of African-American Women in the United States. 3 cr. A study of historical traditions in the art of Afro-American women in the United States. Examines works of art within prevailing periods and styles. Consideration will be given to content and style as well as to influencing theories, ideologies and social contexts. P: Afro-Amer 242.
567 History of African American Education. (Crosslisted with Ed Pol) 3 cr. An examination of the social, economic, political, and cultural issues influencing the education of Black Americans from the early nineteenth century to the 1960s. P: Jr st or cons inst.
577 Blacks in Cities. (Crosslisted with Soc) 3 cr. Urbanization of Black Americans. Focus on Blacks in antebellum cities, migration of Black population, residential distribution, emerging demographic trends, strategies for Black survival in today's cities. P: Jr st.
602 The Harlem Renaissance. 3 cr. Black literature and culture during the 1920's. Focus on unique Black literary expression of era, historical background, esthetics, polemical essays. P: Jr st & two crses in Afro-Amer studies.
603 The Black Arts Movement. 3 cr. Focuses on the notion of blackness as it is developed in the poetry and drama of key figures of the 1960s Black Arts Movement. Emphasizes the emergence of a critical discourse specific to a "new" black aesthetic. P: Jr st & two crses in Afro-American studies.
605 Critical and Theoretical Issues in Afro-American Literature. 3 cr. A problem oriented course designed to focus on critical and theoretical writings about literature by major 20th century African-American writers. Students will be encouraged to test certain prevailing theories of African-American literature against their own readings of primary and secondary sources and to develop their ideas in a research paper. P: Jr st and 6 cr of lit.
624 African American Women's Activism (19th & 20th Centuries). (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. Examines Black women's struggles for racial justices; reconsiders conventional notions of leadership, politics and protest. Topics include abolitionism, anti-lynching campaigns, woman suffrage, labor movement, club movement, cultural expressions, civil rights protest, Black feminism/womanism, poverty and welfare rights, environmental racism, etc. P: So st; instr permission required.
628 History of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. Civil rights history from 1930-1970. Legal, historical and economic origins of the civil rights movement. Study of the movement's impact on United States culture, politics, and international relations. P: Jr or Sr st or cons inst.
631 Colloquium in Afro-American History. 3 cr. Readings, discussion, and research seminar for advanced students in Afro-American History. P: Jr or Sr st.
632 Historiography of Afro-American Studies. 3 cr. Traces the course and development of Afro-American historical studies from their early days to the present. P: Jr st or cons inst.
635 Afro-American History to 1900. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. Political, economic, and social development of American Blacks from their removal from Africa to the end of the nineteenth century. P: Jr st or cons inst.
636 Afro-American History Since 1900. (Crosslisted with History) 3 cr. An in-depth analysis of social, economic, and political developments within the Black community in twentieth-century America. P: Jr st or cons inst.
643 Selected Topics in African Diaspora Art History. 3 cr. Art history of a specific African cultural tradition (eg. Yoruba, Kongo, Fon, Akan) and its transformation in the Caribbean, Central and South America in response to new social, historical, and hegemonic forces. P: Afro-Amer 241, 242, 243 or cons inst.
650 Seminar: Ethnic/Racial Identity. 3 cr. Survey of social science research on adult group identification among groups of color generally, black Americans in particular. Some attention is given to whiteness. Service-learning is part of the course pedagogy. P: Prev crse in the social sciences or Afro-Amer 673, & Jr st.
651 Contemporary Afro-American Society. 3 cr. Advanced survey of the characteristics and problems of Afro-Americans in modern American society. P: Afro-Amer 151 or one crse in soc or poli sci.
662 Selected Topics in Multicultural American Literature. (Crosslisted with English) 3 cr. Exploration of the nature of multicultural, comparative American literary studies. Consideration of a formal, thematic or historical topic with emphasis on close reading of texts by African-American, Asian-American, American Indian, Jewish-American, Latino/a, and European-American writers. P: 6 cr of intro lit.
671 Selected Topics in Afro-American History. 3 cr. An intensive analysis of specific themes in the Black American experience. Subjects vary with the instructor. P: Jr st or cons inst.
672 Selected Topics in Afro-American Literature. (Crosslisted with English) 3 cr. An intensive analysis of specific themes in the Afro-American experience. Subjects vary with instructor. P: Jr st. Stdts wanting cr in English must have 6 cr of intro lit.
673 Selected Topics in Afro-American Society. 3 cr. An intensive analysis of specific themes in the Afro-American experience. The subjects vary with the instructor. P: Jr st.
674 Selected Topics on Afro-American Artists. (Crosslisted with ART) 3 cr. Works of Black artists in the U.S. discussed historically in terms of movements which they created and in terms of trends evolving on an international scale. Jr st and cons inst. P: Jr st and cons inst.
675 Selected Topics in Afro-American Culture. 3 cr. An intensive analysis of specific themes in the Afro-American experience. P: Varies with topic.
676 Contemporary Black American Art: History and Criticism. 3 cr. Historical and critical analysis of the visual arts of contemporary Black American artists. Focus on masters of painting, sculpture, and graphic media with particular consideration for historical development and aesthetic value in form and content. P: Afro-Am 242 or cons inst.
677 Critical and Theoretical Perspectives in Black Women's Writings. (Crosslisted with Women St) 3 cr. Analyses and interpretations of literary works by black women writers through historical, philosophical, political, feminist, and other contemporary critical methods. P: Undergrads: 2 crses in Afro-Amer lit above intro level, or equiv in another dept of lit. No prereq for Grads.
678 Modern/Contemporary Art of Nigeria and the African Diaspora. 3 cr. This seminar will examine the history of modern and contemporary art in Nigeria and the African diaspora. It will analyze trans-cultural developments in paintings, sculpture, and other media, as it engages globalization, colonialism, Euro-primitivist modernism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, and feminism. P: Cons inst.
679 Visual Culture, Gender and Critical Race Theory. 3 cr. Examines tensions between visual and verbal representations that variably construct and negotiate power relations in racialized human experience. P: 3 crses at 300 level or above in any one of the following areas: Afro-Amer studies; art; art hist; com arts; curric & instr.
699 Directed Study in Afro-American Studies. 1-6 cr. P: Graded on a lettered basis; requires cons inst.
790 Research and Thesis. 1-12 cr. P: Masters st and cons inst.