AFAM 101

This course provides an examination of intellectual and creative productions, developments, and events that have come to be recognized as the discipline of African American Studies. The course explores literature, history, popular culture (music, television, magazines, newspapers, movies, film documentaries), and politics as a way to identify the historical and political origins and objectives of Black Studies and the 1960s Black Liberation struggles, the early academic and social concerns of Black Studies advocates, the theoretical and critical approaches to Black Studies as a discipline, and the early objectives of Black Studies in relation to present goals of multiculturalism.

Offered every semester.

CO24 - KN (Knowledge, Identity, and Power), CO24 - SOCSCI (Social Sci and Historical), CORE - HM (Humanistic Approaches), CORE - KN (Knowledge, Identity, and Power), INTD - AFAM (African American Studies AFAM), INTD - EDUC (Education Studies Minor EDUC), INTD - GQS (Gender and Queer Studies GQS), INTD - HUM-RACETH (Intd Humanities-Race IHE)