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2005-06 Undergraduate Catalog
Course Descriptions

African-American Studies
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

AFA 2000 Introduction to African-American Studies
Credits: 3.
An integration interdisciplinary exploration of selected themes and representative materials in the African-American experience in North America, emphasizing continuity and change. (H) (WR)

AFA 3360 Archaeology of African American Life and Culture
Credits: 3.
Historical overview of African American archaeology, including important cases, key figures, major issues and development of the field.

AFA 3750 Research Methods in African-American History
Credits: 3; Prereq: AFA 2000 or permission of instructor.
Research methods in African-American history.

AFA 3915 Mentoring At-Risk Youth
Credits: 3; Prereq: AFA 2000 or permission of instructor.
A community service-learning course that develops mentoring and critical-thinking skills through instruction, analysis and service.

AFA 3930 Special Topics in African-American Studies
Credits: 3; Prereq: junior or senior standing, or by permission of instructor.
Lectures and seminars covering selected topics of current interests in African-American Studies.

AFA 3936 Archaeology of African-American Life and Culture
Credits: 3; Prereq: AFA 2000.
An historical overview of African-American archaeology, including important cases, key figures, major issues, and the development of the field.

AFA 3976 The Black Experience: Psychological Perspectives
Credit: 3; Prereq: AFA 2000.
An interdisciplinary course examining themes, premises, and theories presented by major psychological theorists in their depictions and accounts of the behavior of Black people in America; the growth of Black Psychology.

AFA 4905 Individual Study
Credits: 1 to 5; Prereq: permission of director of the African-American Studies program.
Directed individual reading or research on topics in African-American Studies.

AFA 4936 African-American Studies Senior Integrative Seminar 1
Credits: 3; Prereq: senior standing or permission of director of the African-American Studies program.
An examination of bibliographic resources and an analysis of theory, method and special problems in the field of African-American Studies.

AFA 4937 African-American Studies Senior Integrative Seminar 2
Credits: 3; Prereq: AFA 4936, or permission of director of the African-American Studies program.
A research seminar providing directed investigation on topics of interdisciplinary interest to scholars in diverse fields. (See descriptions under department listings.)

AMH 3574 Problems in African-American History
Credits: 3. (WR)

AMH 4571 American Civil War and Reconstruction
Credits: 3. (H) (WR)

AML 3270 African-American Literature 1
Credits: 3.

AML 3271 African-American Literature 2
Credits: 3.
This course surveys the development of African-American Literature from 1945 to the present.

MUH 4016 History of Jazz
Credits: 3. (H, I)



General Education Categories

  • Composition (C)
  • Mathematical Sciences (M)
  • Humanities (H)
  • Social and Behavioral Sciences (S)
  • Physical (P) and Biological (B) Sciences
  • International and Diversity focus (I)

Symbols Used in Course Descriptions

  • (WR) indicates the course satisfies the writing requirement.
    The Schedule of Courses lists the amount of writing credit per course section.
  • (MR) indicates the course satisfies the math requirement.
  • †† indicates the course may be taken on an S-U basis.