FALL 2011 COURSE LISTING
DEPT
AFAM
AFAM
AFAM
CRS
SECT
201
201
E201
001
002
851
202
E202
330
TITLE/DESCRIPTION
GAMBRELL 258
DAYS
TIME
Introduction to the African American Studies
MW
TTH
TTH
2:30-3:45PM
9:30-10:45AM
5:30-8:45PM
Simmons
002
300
Introduction to African American Studies
TTH
MW
2:00-3:15PM
5:30-6:45PM
King
Watson
001
Psychology and the African American Experience
TTH
2:00-3:15PM
Cooper
The Black Experience in the United States to 1865
TTH
5:30-6:45PM
Hudson
Survey of Civil Rights Movement
TTH
12:30-1:45PM
Germany
This course is an introduction to the African experience in America
from 1619 – 1865.
This course will provide a topical and historical overview of African
Americans from the period of 1865 forward.
INSTR
Psychological theory and research as it applies to African Americans.
Explores Afrocentric and other perspectives and roles of culture,
racism, and historical phenomena. (Cross listed with PSYC 330)
AFAM
E331
300
The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in the
United States to 1865. (Cross listed with HIST E211)
AFAM
335
001
This course will explore the origins of Jim Crow and the multi-faceted
struggle against it in the American South and the rest of the US.
(Cross listed with HIST 492A)
AFAM
353
001
Introduction to U.S. Racial and Ethnic Politics
MWF
11:15-12:05PM
Reckendorf
Survey of theories of the impact of race, ethnicity, and racism on
American politics, and analysis of major policies and racial group
experience regarding American citizenship. (Cross listed with POLI
353)
AFAM
398C
001
Contemporary Black Women Writers
TTH
12:30-1:45PM
Alao
Caribbean Literature
MW
8:40-9:55AM
Dawes
African American Literature I
MW
2:30-3:45PM
Trafton
African American Novel
MW
4:00-5:15PM
Adams
African American Politics
TTH
3:30-4:45PM
Shaw
This course will explore how black women’s writing during the 1970s
represented an extension of earlier concerns, themes, and motifs in
African American writing. (Cross listed with ENGL 430F)
AFAM
398E
004
Authors and literary forms representative of the Caribbean. (Cross
listed with ENGL 438E)
AFAM
398L
001
This course provides an introduction to issues, themes and texts
associated with African American literature. (Cross listed with
ENGL428A)
AFAM
398N
001
This course traces the development of the African American novel
from its origins to the present. (Cross listed with SCHC 356T)
AFAM
398T
001
This course surveys key political themes, issues, and controversies
that have concerned African Americans and their collective status
from the founding of the American Republic to the present day.
(Cross listed with POLI 364)
FALL 2011 CONTINUED
AFAM
398W
001
Faulkner & Morrison
TTH
2:00-3:15PM
Whitted
African American Military History
MW
5:20-7:50PM
Smith
TTH
9:30-10:45AM
Donaldson
Race and Science Fiction
MTWTHF
11:00-1:45PM
Shaw
Anthropological View of Blacks in Film
MTWTHF
2:00-4:45PM
Simmons
Comic Books, Race, and History
MTWTH
10:30-12:45AM
Whitted
Hairitage - The Cultural Politics of Black Hair
MTWTH
8:00-10:15AM
Johnson
Introduction to World Literature
MTWTH
10:30-12:45PM
Cornet
This course places the works of Faulkner and Morrison in
conversation with an emphasis on their representation of race, region,
and history in American life. (Cross listed with ENGL 430E and SOST
405U)
AFAM
Z398
801
This course will highlight the significant contributions African
Americans have made to the military history of the United States.
(Cross listed with HIST Z493K)
Additional courses counted toward major:
HIST
211
001
The Black Experience in the United States to 1865
The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in
the United States.
MAY/SUMMER 2011 COURSE LISTING
AFAM
393M
May
This course will explore how contemporary films, literature and
television shows have used science fiction as a lens to comment on
the fault lines of American racial politics and progress from the late
1960s to the early 21st century. (Cross listed with POLI 393M)
AFAM
517M
May
This course examines the historical and contemporary images and
representations of Black people in film, in the United States, from
an anthropological perspective. (Cross listed with ANTH 517M)
AFAM
398C
Sum I
This course will examine how comics use elements of realism,
fantasy, mystery, and horror to explore racial identity. (Cross listed
with ENGL 439D)
AFAM
398H
Sum I
Through readings, film viewings, and discussions, students will
learn about the centrality of hair and its multi-layered meanings in a
variety of contexts in the US and throughout the diaspora.
AFAM
398H
Sum II
This course will explore literary pieces collected from different
cultures, languages and time periods. (Cross listed with WGST
298B, CPLT 270, and ENGL 270)