Introduction to African Studies (3-0) A historical survey of the African American Experience from its origins in Africa to the present. Major themes include African history and culture, philosophies, political and belief systems, the middle passage, enslavement, segregation, the fight against second class citizenship, survival skills, gender politics, and their impact on the Black community. These themes help construct an analysis of the African American experience and the historical and current relationship of African Americans to the larger regional, national and global society.

Department: African American Studies

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Theories In African American Studies (3-0) A survey of major theories of the Afican American Experience as seen through the works of African American scholars and writers from the 19th century to the present. Authors studied range from Carter G. Woodson, and Anna J. Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois to current Afrocentric intellectuals (Bell Hooks, Molefie Asante, Cornell West, and Henry L. Gates).

Department: African American Studies

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African American Leaders of the 20th Century This course focuses on African American leaders and thus provides students with a greater understanding of the overall struggle African Americans waged by examining the thought processes and ideas of some of its most outspoken and sometimes controversial leaders.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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The Modern Civil Rights Movement An examination of the antecedents leading to the modern civil rights period and the role of African Americans in the struggle for equality and the resistance movements, both political and covert, they engendered.

Department: African American Studies

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African American Women and the Black Freedom Movement This course focuses on African American women activists and by doing so provides for a greater understanding of the overall struggle African Americans waged to change the social and political fabric of America. Through this course, students will come to know the tenacity and dogged perseverance African American women displayed and the influence they had on the sociopolitical activism of their male counterparts.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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Theories in African American Studies (3-0) A survey of major theories of the African American Experience as seen through the works of African American scholars and writers from the 19th century to the present. Authors studied range from Carter G. Woodson, and Anna J. Cooper and W.E.B. Du Bois to current Afrocentric intellectuals.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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Dance techniques are introduced through various popular stage dance forms such as jazz, hip-hop, folk and social dance genres.

Department: African American Studies

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A lecture and movement dance course in which students learn choreography, history, and cultural significance of hip hop and other urban dance forms originating in the United States during the late twentieth and early twenty first centuries.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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This course explores Mexico's history through the perspective of African Mexican communities. Our review of a sample of the scholarship in the field will enable us to identify and comprehend the multiple roles played by members of the African diasporas in the nation's political, economic and socio-cultural development as well as in the transnational communities of which Afro-Mexicans are members Race, gender, and class will guide us in reading, discussing, and constructing questions on an often neglected aspect of history. Keywords: Black, Latin America, Diaspora.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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This course centers on the experiences of the African Diasporas in Latin America and Caribbean. While acknowledging the diversity of the Afro-Latino and Caribbean populations, we will address their contributions to the region's economy, politics, and culture as well as the global impact of their participation in transcontinental systems of production and trade. Topics include the Atlantic Slave Trade, colonial social systems, resistance to slavery, Black liberation theories, independence movements, and national identities in post-colonial societies. Keywords: Black, diaspora, history.

Department: African American Studies

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A survey of the art and architecture of all regions of Africa, including Egypt and the Maghreb. Monuments and sacred and secular art objects from ancient to modern times in a variety of mediums are studied in terms of formal attributes and cultural context. Course fee required.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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Classification Restrictions:
Restricted to class of JR, SO, SR

Topics in African American Studies (3-0) An examination of a currently relevant subject from the perspective of African American Studies. Topics will vary and will be drawn from Social Sciences, Humanities, Fine Arts, Science and Technology, and Education. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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Environmental Justice and Minority Communities in the U.S. (3-0); Cross listed with CHIC 4304; SOCI 4304; ANTH 4304; and POLS 4304. An examination of environmental justice issues in the U.S., with an emphasis on communities, agencies and efforts that address sustainable development in the U.S.-Mexico border region. The underpinnings of the environmental justice movement in the U.S. and the regional policy formulation and practice implications for these communities will be central to the course. The course may require field trips.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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This is a continuation of DANC 3348 Jazz Dance1, building on the skills and knowledge developed in that course. Emphasis will be on refining and mastering dance technique and performance skills. This higher level Jazz dance class focuses on exploring variations in Jazz dance styles, emphasizing more complex technical elements such as body isolation, rhythms, patterns, etc. The goal is to increase the students' technical proficiency with an aware embodiment of the form's histories and developments. DANC 3348 is not a pre-requisite but DANC 4348 requires departmental approval. Jazz; dance.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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DANC 4349 is a continuation of DANC 3349, building on the skills and knowledge developed in that course. DANC 4349 guides students towards expanding and mastering a variety of global Hip Hop dance styles and tricks, from old school, through House and its Afro-Latine legacies, to the most current diasporic trends. This course focuses on technical as well as performance proficiency in line with specific Hip Hop aesthetics, philosophies, and social aspects. DANC 3349 is a pre-requisite for BFA in DANCE students. DANC 4349 requires departmental approval. Hip Hop; dance; diaspora.

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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Prerequisite(s): (DANC 3349 w/C or better)

An examination of various aspects of the historical, cultural, political, economic and social development of people of African descent. Topics will vary and will be drawn from the Social Sciences, Humanities, Fine Arts, Science and Technology, and Education. May be repeated for credit when topic varies. Restricted to class of SR, JR

Department: African American Studies

3 Credit Hours
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