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Appendix B

Course Descriptions for New Africana Studies Courses

AFS 101 - The Black Experience in America (3)

A survey of black people from freedom in Africa to enslavement in the United States, specifically examining enslaved life and free black communities in colonial and antebellum era. This course will survey the history, culture, religion, institutions, politics, economics, arts, and psychology of peoples of African American people as developed from experience in both the old and new worlds. This course uses multidisciplinary analysis to examine life from a Black perspective as illustrated in selected historical and contemporary writings.

AFS 102 – Intro to Africana Studies (3)

An introductory survey of basic theoretical concepts used to analyze the Black experience, with special focus on the general historical process common to the African Diaspora (Africa, Caribbean, and the Americas - South, Central, and North, especially the USA).

AFS 201 – Seminar in the American Black Experience (3)

This seminar course focuses on the transition from enslavement to emancipation to citizenship in the modern and postmodern eras. This course is a seminar in the history, culture, religion, institutions, politics, economics, arts, and psychology of people of African American people as developed from experience in both the old and new worlds. This course uses multidisciplinary analysis to examine life from a Black perspective as illustrated in selected historical and contemporary writings.

AFS 202 – Seminar in Africana Studies (3)

This course is an expansion of the AFS 102. Students will conduct research in specific topics of interest related to the Africana experience. Students will identify the global character of the Black Diaspora to move beyond the myopia imposed by nation state formations.

AFS 302 Readings in Black Women's Studies (3)

This course will focus on biography, memoir, oral histories and the fiction of black women, their contributions to the literary canon and historiography of Western and non-Western societies.

AFS 301 Research Methods in Africana Studies (3)

This course will provide students with conventional quantitative and qualitative research methodology. The course will introduce students to specific conceptual theoretical frameworks and methodologies unique to the discipline. The primary objective of this course is to help students develop research skills necessary to address the pressing social, economic and political issues facing people of Africa on the continent and throughout the diaspora. In addition;