African Amer Studies (AFAM)
A study of the United States founding documents that emphasizes how the experiences of African American citizens throughout history and culture shape the country’s values, norms, and ideals.
Introduction to the key debates, figures, and concepts that are fundamental to the interdisciplinary study of the historical, political, and social development of black life in America.
Carolina Core: GSS
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Introduction to the analysis and discussion of creative works and traditions by and about African Americans through folklore, music, art, dance, and literature.
Carolina Core: AIU
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
The variety of religious traditions of African Americans, with emphasis on the contexts in which they developed.
Cross-listed course: RELG 207
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
An examination of African-American cultures in the New World.
Cross-listed course: ANTH 231
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
An interdisciplinary survey of the contributions of African-American women to feminist theory.
Cross-listed course: WGST 308
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Psychological theory and research as it applies to African Americans. Explores Africentric and other perspectives and roles of culture, racism, and historical phenomena.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in the United States to 1865.
Cross-listed course: HIST 211
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
The social, cultural, economic, and political life of black people in the United States since 1865.
Cross-listed course: HIST 212
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Examination of the origins of Jim Crow and the multi-faceted struggle against it, and other forms of racial inequality, in the American South and the rest of the US since the early 20th century.
Cross-listed course: HIST 455
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Explore development/theologies of African/African Diaspora religions; examine misunderstandings; arrive at a more sophisticated and nuanced vision of these religions and the people who hold them.
Cross-listed course: RELG 343
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
History of the environmental justice movement and the unequal distribution of environmental harms on low income, minority, and historically marginalized groups.
Cross-listed course: ENVR 348
Basic concepts, issues, and practices of antiracist education. Topics include individual and institutional racism, overt and covert racism, curriculum, textbooks, power relationships, teacher-student relationships, and privacy.
Cross-listed course: EDFI 350
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
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 course: POLI 353
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Theoretical and empirical approaches related to race/ethnicity and the current state of race relations in American, with some attention to global issues.
Cross-listed course: SOCY 355
Carolina Core: GSS
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
African-American politics from the colonial period to the present. Emphasis on voting rights and strategies to advance black representation.
Cross-listed course: POLI 364
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
A cross-disciplinary study of how the bodies of Africans and African Americans were used in medical experimentation, starting in the late 18th century and continuing to the present.
Cross-listed course: ANTH 263
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
An 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.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Roots of rap/hip hop music from African bardic tradition to African American vernacular traditions and development as a musical genre; rap’s musical and verbal traits and political ideologies; hip hop’s influence on mainstream American society and global youth.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Draws on science fiction to understand the contemporary history of American racial and ethnic politics and to speculate about the significance of race in America’s political future.
Cross-listed course: POLI 393
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Reading and research on selected social and historical topics in African American studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Reading and research on selected arts and cultural topics in African-American studies. May be repeated as content varies by title.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences, GLD: Research
Contract approved by instructor, advisor, and department chair is required for undergraduate students.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences, GLD: Research
Survey of many of the major schools of historic and contemporary African American political thought.
Cross-listed course: POLI 402
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Interdisciplinary analysis of how the experiences of enslaved people are represented through fiction, autobiography, film, art, and new media.
Representative works of African-American writers to 1903.
Cross-listed course: ENGL 428A
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
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 course: ANTH 442, ENGL 457, LING 442
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
This course critically examines the continuities and discontinuities between Jim Crow and our current historical and political moment.
Cross-listed course: HIST 463
Critical review of theories of community organizing, grassroots activism, and social movements, and examination of contemporary forms of black activism.
Cross-listed course: POLI 476
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
African-American rhetoric as manifested in speeches, essays, and other rhetorical artifacts.
Cross-listed course: ENGL 486
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
An examination of literature by and about black women, including fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. This study will focus on issues that emerge from the creative representations of black women and the intersections of race, gender, sexuality, and class that interrogate what is both particular and universal experiences.
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Representations of race and gender in comics with a special emphasis on the experiences of African Americans.
Cross-listed course: WGST 515
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Cultural representations, constructions, production, and consumption of African-American identity in the popular culture medium of feature films.
Cross-listed course: ANTH 517
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
The major movements, figures, plays, and critical strategies that have marked the development of African American theatre in the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.
Cross-listed course: ENGL 565, THEA 565
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences
Students will explore the African Diaspora as a social, cultural, and historical formation with Africa at its center, focusing on US, Latin American, and Caribbean African-descended communities.
Cross-listed course: ANTH 580
Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences