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AFAM 8960

Directed Reading in African American Studies

Independent directed reading course for graduate students whose programs of study require courses not available in the regular schedule. It makes the interdisciplinary study of African American culture and theory accessible to students who in traditional departments need to ground their inquiry in a broader context.

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AFAM 4880

Topics in African American Literature: Black Atlantic Writers
Credit Hours:
3

Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, and Black American literature and aesthetics.

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AFAM 3102

Modern African American Experience
Credit Hours:
3

The twentieth-cenury struggle for civil rights, black identity, and self-determination. The response to industrialism and urbanization. The role of black institutions and political organizations. The philosophy and tatics of accomodation, integration, and separatism.

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AFAM 4250/6250

African American Seminar: African American Religious History
Credit Hours:
3

Examination of a designated topic in the field of African American Studies. The course is interdisciplinary, but may also focus on the instructor of record's primary discipline and/or area of scholarship. Some sections of this course meeting Experiential Learning requirement (check with instructor).

AFAM 7500

Graduate Introduction to African American Studies
Credit Hours:
3

This course surveys history of and current discourse on African American Studies as a discipline encompassing the study of the African diaspora in the Americas, while examining fundamental concepts, research methodologies, and tools of analysis that inform the field.

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Study within African American cultural history provides a basis for understanding political, social, and economic relations throughout human history.