Description
Requirements
for Major Concentration
Requirements
for Minor Concentration
African
American Studies Courses
Description
The intent of African American studies is to provide a systematic
investigation and analysis of the thoughts, experiences, and conditions
under which people of African descent live in the United States.
Courses making up the concentration will draw upon different disciplines
to explore how African Americans relate to each other, to other
Americans, and to other people of African descent living in the
Americas, Europe, and Africa. Students majoring in the field should
understand how blacks shape their lives in particular historical,
social, political-economic, and cultural contexts.
Independent
study or fieldwork is highly recommended to allow the student to
study a particular topic in depth or to apply what she has learned
in the classroom to issues affecting African Americans in the larger
world. Students are also encouraged to take advantage of opportunities
for internships, study abroad, and exchange at other institutions.
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Requirements
for Major Concentration
Credits:
A minimum
of 40 credits
20 of
these credits must be at the 300 level in at least two different disciplines.
Courses:
African
American and African Studies 101, Introduction to African American
Studies
One class
on people of African descent in either Africa, the Caribbean, or the
African diaspora at the 200 or 300 level
Other:
Independent
Study 395 is strongly recommended.
Other
courses to be counted for the concentration are drawn from departmental
offerings with the approval of the program. Students may also count
courses taken at the other Five College institutions subject to approval
by the chair.
African
American and African studies is an interdisciplinary major. Students
who pursue an interdisciplinary major automatically fulfill the College's
"outside the major" requirement (see Outside the Major).
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Requirements
for Minor Concentration
The program should be planned carefully for coherence and integrity.
Credits:
A minimum
of 20 credits
16 of
these credits must be at the 200 level or higher.
At least
4 of these credits must be at the 300 level. 395 may not be counted
toward the minimum 4 credits at the 300 level.
Courses:
African
American and African Studies 101, Introduction to African American
Studies
Other:
Signature
of the program chair
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Courses
African American Studies:
202 Chocolate Cities and Vanilla Suburbs
210 African American Culture and Society
307 The State of Black America in the 21st Century
American
Studies:
301 Senior Seminar on Richard Wright
Dance
142B Comparative Caribbean Dance
Economics
306 Political Economy of "Race" in the U.S.
English:
250 African American Literature
251 Literature of the Black Empire
271 Women Writers: Black and White Southern Women Writers
350 Studies in African American Literature: Slavery and the American
Literary Imagination
351 Toni Morrison
370 The Caribbean in American Culture
372 Contesting Borders: The Literature of Exile
French:
219 Introduction to the French-Speaking World
Geology:
312 (01)Third World Development
History:
101 African American Autobiographies and Biographies
280 Race and Gender in North American History: African American Women
and U.S. History
281 African American History to 1865
282 African American History since 1865
301 Colloquium: Slaves and Their Allies
301 Colloquium: Segregation: Origins and Legacies
375 American History: The Middle Period: The Age of Emancipation
381 Recent American History: The Civil Rights Movement
Latin American
Studies
170 Readings in Caribbean Literature
276 Contemporary Caribbean Societies
289 Slavery in the Americas
373 Studies in Comparative Caribbean Culture: Contemporary Caribbean
Writers
Philosophy
248 Philosophical Issues in Race and Racism
Politics
210 Minorities and the Law
244 Urban Politics and Policies
250 Politics of Black Urban Reform
252 Topics in Urban Studies
313 The Politics of Poverty
347 Racial Stratification and Urban Political Economy
348 Colloquium in Politics: Community Development
Psychology
213 Psychology of Racism
Religion
107 The Women Who Shaped the Mind of Frederick Douglass
228 On Human Freedom: Lordship and Bondage in Religion and Culture
230 Spirituals and the Blues
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