AFAM 7770 Teaching Practicum in African American Studies Credit Hours: 3 This course is a practicum in the teaching of African American Studies. It blends instructional techniques particular to African American Studies with pedagogical training useful for a beginning TA in any field. The practicum section of the course would take place in one or more sections of the AFAM 2000 course that is offered every semester. Read more about AFAM 7770 Level: Graduate
AFAM 4480 History of African American Drama & Theater Credit Hours: 3 The emergence of a distinct and conscious African American theatre in the United States. Read more about AFAM 4480 Level: Graduate Undergraduate
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. Read more about AFAM 3820 Level: Undergraduate
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. Read more about AFAM 3230 Level: Undergraduate
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. Read more about AFAM 3101 Level: Undergraduate
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. Read more about AFAM 2600 Level: Undergraduate
AFAM 2020 African American Society Credit Hours: 3 The class, status, and power relations of African Americans as part of both the United States social structure and the African diaspora. Read more about AFAM 2020 Level: Undergraduate