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Valinda W. Littlefield, Director

Overview

The interdisciplinary major in African American Studies is designed to assist students in developing knowledge in related disciplines in the social sciences and the humanities in order to gain understanding of the culture, experience, and contemporary situation of the African diaspora. African American students interested in the major should contact the program at 777-7248. The program offers a B.A. in African American Studies and an undergraduate minor.

African American Studies

• •  African American Studies, B.A.

Undergraduate Minor

• •  African American Studies Minor

Courses

African American Studies

• •  AFAM 201 - Introduction to African-American Studies.
• •  AFAM 202 - Introduction to African-American Studies
• •  AFAM 303 - African-American Cultures
• •  AFAM 308 - African-American Feminist Theory
• •  AFAM 330 - Psychology and the African American Experience
• •  AFAM 331 - Black Experience in the United States to 1865
• •  AFAM 332 - Black Experience in the United States since 1865
• •  AFAM 335 - Survey of Civil Rights Movement
• •  AFAM 342 - The African American Religious Experience
• •  AFAM 343 - Religions of the African Diaspora
• •  AFAM 350 - Antiracist Education
• •  AFAM 353 - Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics
• •  AFAM 393 - Race and Science Fiction
• •  AFAM 398 - Special Topics in African-American Studies
• •  AFAM 399 - Independent Study
• •  AFAM 402 - African American Political Thought
• •  AFAM 428A - African-American Literature I: to 1903
• •  AFAM 428B - African American Literature II: 1903-Present
• •  AFAM 438D - Studies in African Regional Literature
• •  AFAM 438E - Studies in Carribbean Regional Literature
• •  AFAM 442 - African-American English
• •  AFAM 476 - Black Activism
• •  AFAM 486 - African American Rhetoric
• •  AFAM 498 - Seminar in African-American Studies
• •  AFAM 499 - Seminar in African-American Studies
• •  AFAM 517 - An Anthropological View of Blacks in Film
• •  AFAM 565 - African American Theatre
• •  AFAM 580 - Culture and Identity in the African Diaspora

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