Courses

Personal narratives by African Americans, including texts by Wheatley, Douglass, Jacobs, Wilson, DuBois, Johnson, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Baldwin, Angelou, and Moody.

This course will survey the evolution of African American autobiography. It will analyze autobiographies within historical context and explore the variety of forms such as memoir, diaries and others used by the authors.

Personal narrative by African Americans, including texts by Wheatley, Douglas, Jacobs, Wilson, Dubois, Johnson, Hurston, Hughes, Wright, Baldwin, Angelou, and Moody. 3 hours.

A study of the choral music of African-American composers and its interaction with western musical styles. topics. Course may be repeated for a maximum of 12 credit hours. Music - Applied Courses medium for the first-year Music Education major. One-hour private lesson per week. performance medium for the first-year Music Education major. One-hour private lesson per week. medium for the Music minor or secondary performance medium for the Music or Music Education major.

Students examine the African-American civil rights movement in the United movement. Topics may include Jim Crow segregation, lynching, the establishment Black Power, and mass incarceration.

This course concentrates specifically on selected works that explore the human conditions presented in diversely rich selections of historical romance, avant-garde comedy and satire; fantasy and science fiction; detective stories, mysteries written in novels; short stories and/or drama forms.

Development of African American dramatic tradition from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts movement to contemporary postmodernism, including Brown, Hurston, Baraka, and Wilson.

Development of African American Dramatic Tradition from the nineteenth century through the Harlem Renaissance and Black Arts Movement to Contemporary Postmodernism, including Brown, Hurston, Baraka, and Wilson. 3 hours.

See SS 101 in the Social Science curriculum.

This survey course of the history of African-Americans in the United States explores the African background, the origin and development of slavery, the abolitionist and protest movements, legislative and judicial efforts to achieve racial equality, and contributions of African-Americans to American society. Special emphasis is placed on the economic and political rights of African-Americans since the 1960s.