Courses
African American Studies
Check back on December 15th for Summer 2010 courses.
College of Arts and Sciences
Introduction to Ethnic, Race, and Minority Relations
CAS AA 207
A critical exploration of racial and ethnic diversity in American society and its relationship to changes in the rest of the world. Examines the experiences of major minority groups in the United States using basic concepts such as assimilation, pluralism, integration, and separatism. Alternative patterns of inter-group relations, drawn from societies like South Africa, Brazil, Canada and Northern Ireland, provide the context in which to evaluate "American Exceptionalism." The course concludes with a consideration of the interplay between democracy, diversity, and the future of group conflict in an increasingly globalized world. Meets with CAS SO 207. 4 cr.
African American History
CAS AA 371
The history of African Americans from African origins to present time; consideration of slavery, reconstruction, and ethnic relations from the colonial era to our own time. Meets with CAS HI 371. 4 cr.
Studies in African American Literature
CAS AA 502
Topic for Summer 2009: From New World to New Negro: Major African American Writers of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. The writings of Wheatley and Equiano, who discussed slavery and Middle Passage; of Douglass and Jacobs, who constituted a slave-narrative tradition; and of Washington, Hopkins, Griggs, and Harper, who wrote about racial uplift in the post-slavery era. Meets with CAS EN 587. 4 cr.
Literature of the Harlem Renaissance
CAS AA 507
Prereq: junior standing or consent of instructor. A study of the major writers of the Harlem Renaissance. Explores how they proclaimed a renewal of racial consciousness and cultural pride, and how they challenged racial and cultural barriers in American society. Meets with CAS EN 377. 4 cr.
