An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from pre-colonial Africa, through enslavement in North America.

An introductory survey of African-American History that provides engagement with significant topics, themes and issues in the African American experience from Reconstruction into the present.

Intellectual and social origins of African-American Studies. Key concepts, themes, and theories of the discipline.

Historical survey of English-language literature by people of African descent in the Americas, particularly in the U.S., with consideration of literary genres, conventions, and modes. Issues such as periodization, canon formation, national identity, and the interrelationships between literature and other elements of culture will be explored.

(Same as SOCI 3162.) Contemporary theories and research of the African-American family.

Focuses on recognizing and employing various reading practices and themes of intersectionality within a number of literary narratives.

Examination of theory and research pertaining to African-American psychology. Special emphasis on the Afrocentric perspective. (Same as PSYC 3520.).

An examination of the relationship between the African-American community and the criminal justice system.

Investigates the dispersal, growth, and influence of people of African descent throughout the world. A comparative analysis of historical, political, cultural, economic, and social development of the African diaspora. (Same as ANTH 3120.)
Global Scholars course.

Origins, adaptations, and contemporary social, economic, political, and belief systems of the indigenous and mixed populations of Africa. (Same as ANTH 3240.)
Global Scholars course.

Examination of the political, economic, and social development of African-Americans in Georgia.

Study of the development of jazz from its origins to current trends including stylistic periods such as New Orleans, swing, bop, cool, avant garde, and fusions. Emphasis on evolution of form, improvisational style, and influential artists. (Same as MUS 3500.).

This course examines the impact that sports activism has had on global issues.

Study of philosophical issues related to race and racism. Topics may include philosophical analysis of concepts such as oppression, race, racism, discrimination, and stereotyping as well as critical investigation of practices and institutions related to racism and ending it, such as the ethics of racial profiling, racism and mass incarceration, and racism and social integration. (Same as PHIL 3750.).

History and styles of African-American music. (Same as MUA 3810.).

History and development of African-American literature, with emphasis on major writers. (Same as ENGL 3950.).

Survey of literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Includes such authors as Wilson, Wheatley, Larsen, Hurston, Dove, Hansberry, and Morrison. (Same as ENGL 3960 and WGSS 3960.).

Examination of the major concepts and theoretical orientations used in African- American Studies.

Qualitative and quantitative research techniques employed to generate knowledge in the interdisciplinary field of African-American Studies. Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking through Writing (CTW) courses required for all African-American Studies majors.

Examination of the impact of major societal issues on the African-American community. (Same as SOCI 4310.).

An experiential course where students develop civic responsibility and utilize their skills and talents to the service of community organizations with the specific goal of helping to empower them to address African American and broader community needs. May include a Signature Experience component.

Explores historical, social, psychological, and economic factors affecting African-American relationships. Issues include negative images and stereotypes, color, beauty and pornography, sex-gender and role identity, consumerism and narcissism, and employment. (Same as SOCI 4311.).

Critical exploration of the frameworks used to explain racial differences in health in the African-American community through the examination of contemporary health issues.

Examines the intersections of race, gender, and health with a critical focus on the health experiences of women in Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. Global Scholars course.

Examination and critical analysis of African-American political and social issues. (Same as POLS 4560.).

Explores the tradition of Black feminism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will critically read, discuss, and respond in writing to a series of texts representing Black feminist thought and its relationship to other feminisms. Students will be expected to demonstrate their knowledge of the Black feminist tradition and their ability to query, compare, and extend Black feminist theories. (Same as WGSS 4750.).

Analysis of the ideology, public opinions, and political behaviors of African Americans. African-American impact on the electoral system. (Same as POLS 4165.).

Examinations of the underpinnings, leadership, political strategies, and outcomes of the modern civil rights movement. (Same as POLS 4157.).

This course will explore the principles and practices of critical pedagogy theory as it has developed both internationally and in the United States. This theory will be particularly focused on its application in the historical and current education in the African American community. The course will examine applications of critical pedagogy in both primary and higher education arenas with a particular focus on what it means to “teach for freedom.” The course will review applications of critical pedagogy and its focus on cultural and social context of both students and teachers and the relationship of education to social development and social change. This course includes both class participation and class room participant observer research.

An overview of religion from Africa to the Diaspora. African cosmology and religions among various African peoples such as the Yoruba and the Dogon of Mali. African origins of Western religions such as Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Various religions among African peoples in the Diaspora such as Santeria, Voodooism, Rastafarianism, as well as Christianity, Black Judaism, and the Nation of Islam. Special attention to African survivals in religion in the Diaspora. The role of religion as a tool of liberation and community and economic development. (Same as RELS 4230.)
Global Scholars course.

A survey of the development of African-American religion from colonial times to present, including an examination of both the theoretical arguments of religious elites and the spiritual experience of laypersons. (Same as RELS 4250.).

From colonialism to black nationalism to globalization, how do the three issues of religion, race, and nation affect each other. The course will discover the role religion plays in shaping racial and national identity and explain how the concepts of race, religion, and nation reconfigure issues of power, privilege, and public life. We will explore these concepts using theory, world literature, and film. (Same as RELS 4255.).

Major writings in the field of African-American studies; theories, categories, and methods used in studying complex societies are brought to bear upon the literature; use of ethnographies to provide a comparative perspective for understanding African-American cultures. (Same as ANTH 4280.).

This course explores and examines the ideas, major artists and institutions, artistic practices, political context and enduring legacy of the most important multi-discipline artistic movement in African American history.

The Iconography of the African Diaspora. This course will use interdisciplinary methods to study racialized iconic figures, the production of their images, and their impact across the world. Global Scholars course.

Examines the centrality of movement in the social, cultural, and spiritual practices of black populations across the world. Global Scholars course.

An overview of the physical, economic, and cultural geography of Africa, including North Africa. Emphasis on relationships between Africa’s resources, both human and physical, and the development process. (Same as GEOG 4402.)
Global Scholars course.

Examine 20th and 21st century Black movements for social justice. Insurgent movements that primarily worked outside of parliamentary taking a multi-disciplinary approach and studying theories and histories of social movements.

Examines the character of the system of chattel slavery and racial oppression in Colonial America and in the United States and insurgent responses to it by the captive and free population of African descent in North America. (Same as HIST 4280.)
Global Scholars course.

Comparative examination of systems of captivity and forced labor in the western hemisphere and the social development and popular responses of captive Africans and their descendants to these systems. Emphasis on the continuities of African culture and the unique adaptation of culture and social organization in each country. The nature of resistance and the process of eliminating the system of captivity, with a focus on Maroon nations in the Americas. (Same as HIST 4290.)
Global Scholars course.

This course focuses on the history, politics and culture within the “Black New South”, a subfield within the academic field of African American Studies. With an interdisciplinary approach the focus will be on the major issues involved in the study of the African American experience, both the objective issues being analyzed in the research literature and the subjective issues of how the world sees Atlanta, Georgia as the Black Mecca.

Major topics and themes in African-American history, including slavery, development of American racism, urbanization, civil rights, and black contributions to American culture. (Same as HIST 4270.)
City Scholars Course.

Examination of the history and contributions of African-Americans to the American theatre. (Same as THEA 4090.).

Examination of the varied history of African-American women. Centered in the tradition of race and gender protest; how women have generationally developed agendas and forums around social justice reform; exploration of themes, individuals, and collective action, revealing the impact of race, class, and gender on the lives of African-American women. (Same as HIST 4260.).

This course focuses on the history, politics and culture within Education of Black Folk in the American South. This an interdisciplinary investigation of the complexities of the African American experience in American culture that particularly explores important comparative questions about the American education system. In this course we will understand how Africans in America negotiated, disrupted, and transformed popular education.

This course thinks about the kinds of conceptual tools: questions, methods, theories, histories, geographies, time periods, and social/cultural movements needed in order to understand the dynamic and shifting terrain of gender and sexuality in the African Diaspora. Colonialism, slavery, social movements as well as transnational circuits of music, self-expression, desire and consumption/production will frame our approach to theorizing gender and sexuality in the actual and imagined spaces of the African Diaspora. (Same as WGSS 4770.)
Global Scholars course.

An examination of African women’s roles in domestic production, their relationship to the state, and the effect of social change on women from the pre-colonial period to the contemporary era. (Same as HIST 4772.)
Global Scholars course.

An examination of African resistance in the colonial and post-colonial contexts. Global Scholars course.

This course explores the image of Africa projected into American mass culture through the vehicle of commercial films produced about Africa.

Examines the speeches, writings, and other public communication of African-American lesbians and gay men who promote democratic ideals. Surveys historical and contemporary issues confronting this marginalized population. Emphasis on thematic and cultural critical approaches. (Same as WGSS 4780.).

Readings or research preparatory to honors thesis or project. Signature Experience course.

Writing or production of honors thesis or project. Signature Experience course.

Survey of twentieth-century literature of the English-speaking or Commonwealth Caribbean. Includes such writers as Prince, Brathwaite, Kincaid, Naipaul, and Walcott. (Same as ENGL 3970.)
Global Scholars course.

Mainstream Hollywood representation of African-Americans and the alternative film portrayals by African-American producers. (Same as FLME 4760.).

Examination of the various contexts of African-American academic performance.

Intellectual debates over the definitions and diversities of everyday African-American cultural production. (Same as JOUR 4590.).

Intensive treatment of selected topics in African-American studies. May be repeated for 12 credit hours.

In this course students learn how class, gender and racial categories have impacted the lives of South Africans. Global Scholars course.

Serves as one of the two Critical Thinking Through Writing (CTW) courses required of all African-American Studies majors. This course may include a Signature Experience component.

Directed Readings designed for Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies students. This course may satisfy the Critical Thinking Through Writing requirement.