LIST OF GRADUATE COURSES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES

5193: INDIVIDUAL STUDIES  

Individual reading or research projects by special agreement between instructor and student.

5240: RACE AND PUBLIC POLICY IN THE U.S.

This high between race and public policy in the U.S. by drawing on insights from three academic disciplines:  sociology, history, and political science.  It examines how racial domination in the U.S from inception shapes racialized practices of power that exacerbate inequality and are expressed in public policy.  It also interrogates how systemic and structural racism shapes public opinion and discourse and examines the politics of policymaking by considering two policy issues:  affirmative action and welfare.  

5650: BLACKNESS AND THE BODY IN SCIENCE AND MEDICINE

This course considers the need for and pursuit of social justice when black bodies are subjected to commodification and systemic subordination.  The course focuses on what Frantz Fanon called the “corporeal schema” of blackness as well as the social construction of blackness to think about the relationship between black bodies and social justice pursuits in the medicine and science.

5681: BLACK ART IN AMERICA: ARTS AND CULTURAL POLICIES FROM RECONSTRUCTION TO AFROFUTURISM

This course takes a unique approach in how arts management, arts entrepreneurship, cultural production, and cultural organizations are studied. This is done by looking at the decisions made, and practices and policies employed, by Black Americans in the arts throughout the complex, and often problematic, history of the United States.

6189.02S GRANT PROPOSAL WRITING

Individual instruction on grant proposal writing for a specific project identified by a community agency and the student during part of the first part of the course.

6757.01: INTRO TO GRADUATE STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE I  1746 to 1900

Introduction to early writings by African Americans as well as some of the critical discourses currently underway concerning this body of writing (Cross-listed with English). 

6757.02: INTRO TO GRADUATE STUDIES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE II 1900 to Present

Introduction to critical conversations about vernacular traditions and literary texts in African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present (Cross-listed with English).

6999:  MASTER'S THESIS RESEARCH

Research for master's thesis.

7086: THE CIVIL RIGHTS AND BLACK POWER MOVEMENTS

Examines the origins, evolution, and outcomes of the African American freedom struggle, focusing on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements.

7087: BLACK WOMEN IN THE UNITED STATES

A study of historical and related scholarship on the history and experience of black women in the United States.

7303 COMPARATIVE HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: COLONIAL & POSTCOLONIAL REALITIES (PART II)

This part of the series on the comparative history of the Black world will examine post emancipation realities, conceived very broadly, in the black Diaspora.

7420: AFRICAN HISTORIOGRAPHY AND  METHODOLOGY

The study of sources, research methods, interpretations, and research trends in the field of African history.
 

7507: BLACK LIVES MATTER: LAW AND CULTURE

This course examines law as a site that has defined both blackness and humanness in relationship to African Americans. It also explores black culture to understand various responses to injustice.

7580: ENSLAVEMENT, EMANCIPATION, COLONIAL AND POST-COLONIAL REALITIES

History and evolution of the African Diaspora worldwide, from ancient times to the present. Examination of social, political and cultural developments and realities in the Black world.

7730: BLACK POLITICAL MOVEMENTS AND ORGANIZATIONS

Analysis of Black political movements and organizations from slavery to contemporary times.
 

7751: INTRODUCTION TO GRADUATE STUDIES IN AFRICAN LITERATURE

A broad survey of the development of African literature, its variations, genres and themes.

7753: GRADUATE SURVEY IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES

A critical examination of the development of African American and African Studies as a discipline and the theoretical approaches to its subject matter.

7754: METHODOGICAL PERSPECTIVES IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES

A critical and transdisciplinary examination of methodological issues and approaches in the study of the histories, cultures and socio-political conditions of people of African descent.

7756: THEORIZING RACE AND ETHNICITY

Examination of the ideas and theories of race and its intersection with ethnicity.

7759 TOPICS IN AFRICAN DIASPORA STUDIES

A multi-disciplinary and critical examination of the origins, dimensions, and legacies of the African Diaspora. Topics will vary each term.

7760: AFRICAN POP CULTURE

Examination and critique of various theories and genres of popular culture as they relate to the African situation.

7810 TOPICS IN BLACK FEMINIST THEORY

Theoretical analysis of the politics and perceptions of womanhood in the black community.

7851: SEMINAR IN CRITICAL APPROACHES TO BLACK LITERATURES

A study of theoretical constructs/discourses which articulate aesthetic notions about art and culture with specific reference to the Black historical experience (Cross-listed with English). 

8193: ADVANCED INDIVIDUAL STUDIES

Advanced individual reading or research projects by special agreement between instructor and student.

8350: TRANSNATIONAL HISTORY OF THE AFRICAN WORLD

Starts from the premise that the African world no longer includes only the continent of Africa, but also the spaces and cultures populated by peoples of African descent.

8850: CONSUMER CULTURE, RACE, AND MODERNITY

Acquaints students with critical theoretical perspectives on the social and cultural history of consumer culture in the West, linking it to the rise of capitalism, industrialization, imperial and neo-liberal globalization.

8865: RACE, GENDER AND CLASS IN THE DIASPORA 

An examination of the core influences of race, gender and class on people of African descent.

8998: RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES: THESIS

Research for the MA thesis.

8999: RESEARCH IN AFRICAN AMERICAN AND AFRICAN STUDIES: DISSERTATION

Research for the Ph.D. dissertation.