SPRING 2012 COURSE LISTING
GAMBRELL 258
Core Courses
DEPT
CRS
AFAM
201
AFAM
AFAM
TITLE/DESCRIPTION
DAYS
TIME
INSTRUCTOR
Introduction to African American Studies
This course is an introduction to the African experience in
America from 1619 – 1865.
TTH
11-12:15 PM
202
E202
Introduction to African American Studies
This course will provide a topical and historical overview of
African Americans from the period of 1865 forward.
TTH
TTH
2-3:15PM
5:30-6:45PM
McAllister
Jackson
498
Seminar in African American Studies
“African American Studies in the 21st Century”
TTH
12:30-1:45PM
Whitted
Simmons, K
History and Society
AFAM
332
Black Experience in the United States since 1865
The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in
the United States. (Cross listed with HIST 212)
TTH
9:30-10:45AM
Hendricks
AFAM
330
Psychology and the African American Experience
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)
TTH
9:30-10:45AM
Cooper
AFAM
335E
Survey of the Civil Rights Movement
This course will explore the origins of Jim Crow and the multifaceted struggle against it in the American South and the rest of
the US. (Cross listed with HIST 492A)
TTH
5:30-6:45PM
Watson
AFAM
398A
African Legacy in the Americas
Surveys the African heritage in the Americas from the 16th
century to the present day with special emphasis on how
Africans and their descendants went from slavery to freedom
while responding to political, economic, and cultural changes in
their diverse societies. (Meets with SOST 405W)
TTH
3:30-4:45AM
de la Cova, A
AFAM
398B
Medicine, Disease, and Slavery
Interdisciplinary study of the health of enslaved African
Americans during the nineteenth century by focusing on the
conceptions, experiences, and dynamics of the relationship
between slaves, medicine, healing, and their masters in the
Antebellum American South. (Meets with ANTH 391D)
TTH
2:00-3:15PM
de la Cova, C
Updated 10/10/11
History and Society (continued)
DEPT
CRS
AFAM
398C
TITLE/DESCRIPTION
Minority Group Relations
Examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches
regarding race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations
in America. We will explore the main assumptions that
construct individuals’ perceptions of what race is and how race
matters. (Meets with SOCY 355)
DAYS
TIME
INSTRUCTOR
MWF
1:25-2:15PM
Cummings
Arts and Culture
AFAM
398D
The African American Freedom Struggle and Mass Media
Explores the black freedom struggle across 19th and 20th
centuries through the lens of communications and media.
(Meets with JOUR 563B)
MW
5:30-6:45PM
Forde
AFAM
398E
Comics and the US South
Examines the way comics and graphic novels represent the
US South and explore southern histories, places, and
identities. (Meets with SOST 405U)
TTH
9:30-10:45AM
Whitted
AFAM
398K
Black South Carolina Writers
Examines literature by and about African Americans in South
Carolina. Students will study how writers imagine the state
and its distinctive history and culture through autobiography,
novels, poetry, and children’s literature. (Meets with SCHC
322H)
TTH
12:30-1:45PM
Alao
AFAM
428B
African American Literature II: 1903-Present
Representative works of African-American writers from 1903
to the present. (Cross listed with ENGL 428B)
TTH
9:30-10:45AM
Alao
AFAM
442
African American English
Linguistic examination of the structure, history, and use of
African-American English, as well as literary presentations,
language attitudes, and issues relating to education and the
acquisition of Standard English. (Cross listed with LING 442)
TTH
11-12:15PM
Weldon
Updated 10/10/11