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.

Carolina Core: VSR

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.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

An examination of African American and Jewish American inter-ethnic, historical and contemporary connections and disconnections. Implications for educational, social, and social settings are considered.

Cross-listed course: EDTE 218, JSTU 218

Carolina Core: GSS, VSR

An examination of African-American cultures in the New World.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 America, with some attention to global issues.

Carolina Core: GSS

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, 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.

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.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, 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

An introduction to traditional and popular music styles from several cultures and regions in Africa as well as the African diaspora.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning

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

A survey of the musical and artistic contributions of Black women from several musical traditions and eras, partially inspired by the visual album Lemonade released by Beyoncé Knowles Carter in 2016.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy

A study of fine art, craft, and material culture made by people of African descent in the United States from the 17th century to the present, accounting for African American artistic innovation and creativity as it has influenced art production globally.

An introduction to Black creative art making, community building, performance, and critique as a means of creating new visual cultures. Aims to critically examine race and representations through the mediums of visual art, dance and movement cannons, performance art, photography, architecture, and film.

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.

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.

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.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Representative works of African-American writers from 1903 to the present.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Authors and literary forms representative of Africa.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Authors and literary forms representative of the Caribbean.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: 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

An examination of the political cracks, cultural changes, and liberation-focused collaborations between African Americans and Asian Americans in the contemporary period, including recent theoretical frameworks that bring Blackness and Asianness into view together in a post-Civil Rights era.

A survey of the social and political developments in the United States through the diverse experiences of African American women from slavery to the twenty-first century. Situates the heroism, activism, and feminism of African American women within a global context.

This course critically examines the continuities and discontinuities between Jim Crow and our current historical and political moment.

Critical review of theories of community organizing, grassroots activism, and social movements, and examination of contemporary forms of black activism.

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, SPCH 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.

Cross-listed course: ENGL 487, WGST 487

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences

Analysis of the poetry, drama, art, music, and essays of the Black Arts Movement during the 1960s and 1970s, and their impact on American politics, history, and culture.

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: ENGL 515, 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.

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.

Graduation with Leadership Distinction: GLD: Diversity and Social Advocacy, GLD: Global Learning, GLD: Professional and Civic Engagement Leadership Experiences