AFAM 398: Topics - Overcoming the Odds and Beyond
FALL 2013
Human choice and behavior in the social environment that helps
people succeed against the odds, experience health, embrace
authentic happiness, flourish, and realize their fullest potential.
(Meets with SOWK 310.001)
004
MWF
10:50AM-11:40AM 88352
COURSE OFFERINGS
Cooper-Lewter
AFAM 476: Black Activism
Critical review of theories of community organizing, grassroots
activism, and social movements, and examination of contemporary forms of black activism. (Cross-listed with POLI 476.001)
001
TR
10:05AM-11:20AM 81144
Shaw
AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDIES PROGRAM
IMPORTANT DATES
For AFAM Major & Minor Requirements see:
FALL 2013
African
American
Studies
Program
http://artsandsciences.sc.edu/afra/prog_requirements.html
August 22 Fall Classes Begin
August 28 Last day to change/drop a course w/out a grade
of “W” being recorded
September 2 Labor Day Holiday - no classes
September 12 Last day to apply for December graduation
October 11 Last day to drop a course or withdraw without a
grade of “WF”
October 17-18 Fall break - no classes
November 27 – December 1 Thanksgiving Recess—no
classes
December 6 Last day of classes
258 Gambrell Hall
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
December 7 Reading Day
(803) 777-7248
December 9-16 Final examinations
http://www.cas.sc.edu/afra/
December 16 Commencement Exercises in Columbia
http://www.cas.sc.edu/afra/
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258 Gambrell Hall
University of South Carolina
Columbia, SC 29208
(803) 777-7248
http:www.facebook.com/usc.afam
ARTS & CULTURE COURSES
CORE COURSES
AFAM 201: Intro to African American Studies: Social & Historical Foundations
Introduction to the key debates, figures, and concepts in the
study of the historical, political, and social development of black
life in America.
001
TR
2:50PM-4:05PM
80054
Shaw
002
MW
3:55PM-5:10PM
93831
Watson
HISTORY AND SOCIETY COURSES
AFAM 303: African American Arts and Cultures
An examination of African-American cultures in the New World.
(Cross-listed with ANTH 303.001)
001
MWF
9:40AM-10:30AM
88579
Weik
AFAM 308: African American Feminist Theory
An interdisciplinary survey of the contributions of African-American
women to feminist theory. (Cross-listed with WGST 308.E01)
AFAM 202: Intro to African American Studies: Arts & Cultural
E01
Introduction to the key debates, figures, and concepts in the
study of the artistic, literary, and cultural development of black life
in America.
AFAM 398: Topics - African American Sacred Music - From
Spirituals to Stomp
001
TR
8:30AM-9:45AM
81043
Singleton
AFAM CORE FACULTY & STAFF
TR
6:00PM-7:15PM
89892
White
This course provides a socio-cultural history and musical survey of
Black sacred music traditions with particular attention to the spirituals traditions, black hymnody, gospel music styles, and holy hiphop.
001
TR
4:25PM-5:40PM
88286
Johnson
AFAM 398: Topics - Comics & Graphic Novels
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
PSYCH 330.001)
001
MW
3:55PM-5:10PM
89756
Bessellieu
AFAM 335: 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 492.002)
001
TR
1:15PM-2:30PM
89874
Sherouse
AFAM 397: Topics - African American and Women’s Health
Issues
Examines the health status of African Americans and women.
Attention will be focused on the nature of Black/White and male
and female disparities in health.
001
TR
2:50PM-4:05PM
88293
Cummings
Folashade Alao, Ph.D.
[email protected]
Jason Cummings, Ph.D.
[email protected]
A rigorous and scholarly study of comics by and about Africans
and African Americans drawing on a wide range of source materials. (Meets with ENGL 430.002)
Carlina de la Cova, Ph.D.
[email protected]
002
Birgitta Johnson, Ph.D.
[email protected]
AFAM 398: Topics: Minorities, Women & Media
Marvin McAllister, Ph.D.
[email protected]
002
Kimberly Simmons, Ph.D.
[email protected]
The study of the relationships among persons of color, women,
and the mass media in the United States. (Cross-listed with JOUR
311 and WGST 311)
Qiana Whitted, Ph.D.
[email protected]
005
Interdisciplinary study of the health of enslaved African Americans during the nineteenth century. (Meets with ANTH 391.001
Director of African American Studies
TR
MW
8:30AM-9:45AM
2:20PM-3:55PM
88328
92770
Whitted
Campbell
AFAM 428A: African American Literature I: to 1903
Associate Director of African American Studies
Representative works of African-American writers to 1903 (Crosslisted with ENGL 428A.001)
Todd Shaw, Ph.D.
001
Valinda Littlefield, Ph.D.
[email protected]
[email protected]
Business Manager
Valerie Ashford
[email protected]
TR
11:40AM-12:55PM 92833
Trafton
AFAM 397: Topics - The History of Black Southern Education
Course will examine the history of education of African Americans in the South from Reconstruction to the 21st Century.
(Meets with HIST 492.005 & SOST 405.003)
MW
2:20PM-3:35PM
88338
Littlefield
AFAM 397: Topics - Medicine, Disease, Slavery
003
MW
2:20PM-3:35PM
88342
de la Cova, C
AFAM 397: Topics - Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality
Explores historical and contemporary aspects of race, class,
gender, and sexuality through systemic natures of “isms”.
(Meets with WGST 304.001/WGST 304.002).
004
TR
2:30PM-4:05PM
93938
White, S
005
MW
3:55PM-5:10PM
93939
White, S
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