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Skip to content. Applicable only to students admitted during the academic year. Areas of Study The M. Foreign Language Requirement None. Course Requirements A total of 12 courses 48 units are required for the degree. Teaching Experience Not required. Field Experience Not required. African American Studies Seminar. AAS is an initial course that introduces new majors and minors to the field and the African American Studies Program.

Emphases will be placed on exploring the history and development of the AAS Program, major and minor requirements, internship and service learning opportunities and career options. This course will explore issues such as masculinity, cultural identity, leadership and education relative to African American males. It seeks to provide students with tools and strategies that can be employed as they matriculate though their college experience.

Jazz Styles: History and Appreciation. American jazz with emphasis on instrumental and vocal performers, jazz bands, and combos. Development of big band, swing, and popular music. Introduction to African-American Studies. Relates the latter to the complexity and diversity of contemporary movements such as Civil Rights, Free Speech, Black Power, and Afro-centricism. Majors and minors in African American Studies should complete this course before enrolling in any higher level AAS course.

Ethics and Civic Responsibility are significant components of this course. Honors Introduction to African American Studies. An advanced study of African American Studies as a discipline. Examines the seven core areas of the field with an emphasis on the major theories, critical discourses, and the emergence of Black Studies as a field of inquiry. This course provides a socio-cultural and historical overview of the African American athletes male and female that contributed to sports as we know them today.

Focus will begin on the historical figures that helped shape sports culture and will continue into discussions about the role African-Americans play in collegiate and professionals sports today.

African-Amer Hist to Civil War. African American History Since Introduction to African History and Culture. Media representations of an uncivilized Africa marked by political instability, hunger and wars is pervasive. This course will analyze historical events like the Transatlantic slave trade, the scramble for, and partition of Africa, colonialism and neo-colonialism on the African Continent, the struggle for independence and the role of America in emergent African Nations; and current events like the role of the African Union, ECOWAS and other regional organizations and the influence of Africa in world politics.

It will also introduce Students to African Diaspora — causes, patterns and peculiar conflicts of diasporic existence and assimilation into American culture and society. The course serves as a launching pad to understanding Black and African-American studies. Special Topics in African-American Studies. History of Afro-Latin America. This course surveys the history of those countries of Latin America, e. Cuba, Brazil and Colombia, that comprise the heart of the New World's African diaspora, having received most of the roughly 10 million Africans brought to Latin American shores during the centuries-long transatlantic slave trade.

It explores the dramatic experiences of Afro-Latin Americans including their roles in the destruction of slave systems, creation of nations based on democratic principles, and rise of vibrant multicultural societies.

Since the s, critics have—at best—accused Black Power of distracting attention from more productive endeavors, betraying the promise of civil rights, and dividing an interracial coalition of sympathetic liberals. At worst, opponents have attacked Black Power as a foolish, racist, and violent threat to white America, the state, and the Black Freedom Struggle itself.

Participants and scholars, however, tell a different story. Rather than divisive and destructive, the Black Power Movement was unifying and creative. Rather than betraying a winning civil rights coalition, Black Power exposed and challenged the limitations of white allies and liberal reform. Rather than a radical break with the past, Black Power represented a new articulation of old traditions of race pride and self-determination. Accordingly, this course favors a deep historical context. We begin with the Nineteenth-century roots of Black Nationalism and black radicalism and move chronologically through the s.

Seeking to restore the distorted legacy of the Black Power movement, however, we also explore its shortcomings, lest its lessons for the Freedom Struggle in the present day go unexamined.

Each session will combine collective discussion of the readings and group analysis of primary sources with an abbreviated lecture. Writing in African American Studies. Course offers students continued practice in reading, research, and writing central to academic investigation and to interdisciplinary approaches. Develops skills in writing across disciplines and critical thinking.

Emphasizes readings on diverse, contemporary, and multicultural issues in African American Studies. Writing, Ethics and Civic Responsibility are significant components of this course. Survey, history and appreciation of African derived music and its presence in the United States from its earliest forms in spirituals, blues and jazz to contemporary forms of be-bop, hip-hop, reggae, and rap. History and Tradition of Gospel Music.

The purpose of this course is to broaden the knowledge of American Gospel Music history and to identify the valuable contributions of this genre by studying its eras and major contributors. Black Image: Screen and Television. History and definition of the image of the African-ancestored people in the United States through cinema and television.

Race and Representation in Media. The course critically assesses the depiction of race in various visual media presentations. It explores how race is projected in media and how these media structures can create, support stereotypes of race and perpetuate social inequalities. An adequate discourse on the complexities of African American Studies requires a multi-disciplinary approach that considers the expansive nature of the African Experience in North America.

Accordingly, any substantive intellectual and scholarly foundation for critically understanding the salient areas of this course require the application of cross-discipline areas of study involving race, culture, socioeconomics, history, African American political behavior, and psychosocial theories of development.

Quantitative Literacy is a significant component of this course. Students must be in their third year of study. African American Studies majors or students minoring in the program will be given first consideration for the award. Two awards will be given on the basis of academic excellence and scholarly growth. Recipients must have received a grade of 3.

Students may be nominated for and receive this award in succeeding years.