ASL 171: American Sign Language. An introduction to the basic elements of the American Sign Language System. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASL 172: American Sign Language II. A continuation of ASL 171 to enhance students' skills in using the ASL alphabet and numerals. Prerequisite: ASL 171 or instructor's permission. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 101: The Black Experience in America. A survey of black people from freedom in Africa to enslavement in the United States, specifically examining enslaved and free black communities in the colonial and antebellum eras. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 102: Introduction to Africana Studies. This is an introductory survey course that examines the basic theoretical concepts used to analyze the global Black experience. Prerequisite: ENG 102. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 201: Seminar in the American Black Experience. Seminar course that focuses on the transition of African Americans from enslavement to emancipation to citizenship in the modern and postmodern eras. Prerequisite: ASP 101. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 202: Seminar in Africana Studies. This survey course analyzes the current and historical experience of people descended from Africa during the modern era. The course examines the methodological challenges of African and African American Studies and explores central questions that formulate a “black” identity. Students engage in contextual and theoretical frameworks of agency, power, community, and racial construction and transformation in response to histories of enslavement, colonialism, apartheid, racism, and globalization. Particular focus on the US, Caribbean, and Latin America, although diasporic regions may differ. Prerequisite: ENG 102. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 300: Special Topics. Survey course thatanalyzes the current and historical experience of people descended from Africa during the modern era (1400-1945 AD) but not living on the continent. Particular focus on the US, Caribbean, and Latin America, although diasporic regions may differ. Prerequisite: ENG 102. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 301: Research Methods in Africana Studies. This course will provide students with conventional quantitative and qualitative research methods. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 302: Readings in Black Women's History. This course uses various primary sources to examine the contribution of black women to the literary canon and historiography of Western and non-Western societies. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 303: The American Civil Rights Movement. An investigation of the Civil Rights Movement in the 20th century. Focus on the strategic and philosophical debates among the leadership, organizations, the role of government and citizens in shaping reform. Credit: 3 semester hours.
ASP 305: Africana Intellectual Thought. A seminar course which examines the political movements of African descendant people, inclusive of the societal dynamics that provided the impetus and context for political struggle and cultural production. Credit: 3 semester hours.