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AFAM 3820

Interracial Communication
Credit Hours:
3

An applied approach to understanding the significance of interracial communication in Western Society. The societal influences of history, language, and mass media in shaping our knowledge and understanding of positive interracial relationships.

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AFAM 3230

Development of African American Literature
Credit Hours:
3

African American literature since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, Colson Whitehead, including diverse voices rooted in the vernacular origins of literary forms.

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AFAM 3101

Early African American Experience
Credit Hours:
3

The African background of African Americans, the institution of slavery, the development of the African American community institutions, and African American participation in and impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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AFAM 2600

Multicultural Black Diaspora Liteature
Credit Hours:
3

Multicultural literature of the world-wide dispersion of Africans and people of African descent based on select representative works of African-American, African-Caribbean, and African literature.

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