African Studies

Description for AFRSTY101:
This course presents an overview of the major theories in the field of Africana studies. It seeks to explore the Africana experience in a way that is orderly, systematic, and structurally integrated; and to convey an understanding of the cultural, historical, and political roots of this experience. The course focuses chronologically on major historical episodes through a study of ancient African civilizations, slavery, colonialism, and African liberation movements.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: World Cultures.
Diversity: International.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for AFRSTY110:
An intensive study of the social, economic, and political history of African-Americans from the slavery period through the Civil War, with particular emphasis on the social and cultural antecedents of African-Americans, Abolitionism and the Civil War.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Distribution Area: Humanities.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for AFRSTY220:
A survey of African-American and Afro-Caribbean societies from the European settlement of the Americas to the abolition of slavery in Brazil. The geographical focus is on Canada, the United States, Mexico, Guyana, Brazil, Cuba, and the English-speaking Caribbean-primarily Trinidad, Jamaica, and Barbados. The course introduces students to the historical debate over the varieties of slave systems.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for AFRSTY250:
This course examines the American Civil Rights movement as it developed during the period from 1954 to 1965, and as it changed during the period from 1966 to 1986. The course assesses the roles played by individuals, movements, governments, and political leaders in the process of social change.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960

Description for AFRSTY300L:
This course challenges stereotypical constructions of Africa and African woman in mainstream media by considering internal and external historical relationships that have shaped and redefined the cultures, ideas, institutions, politics, and social relations of several specific groups of African women. Through a multi-disciplinary approach, the course addresses issues and challenges of contemporary Africa, and explores many of the themes and concerns that have run throughout Africas gendered, complex, and changing history. Popular culture sources, as well as scholarly studies and activist writing, will be employed to help illuminate the lived experiences and perspectives of contemporary women living in various African societies.

Academic Information:
Credits: 3
Diversity: International.

Fee:
Course Fee: $960
Lab Fee: $0
Total: $960