 | | Course ID: | ZULU(AFAM) 1001. 4 hours. | | Course Title: | Elementary Zulu I | Course
Description: | Fundamentals of the Zulu language and culture which has spread to cover communities in South Africa as well as outside of South African borders to the Southern parts of Zimbabwe, and parts of Botswana, Lesotho, and Swaziland. Emphasis will be placed on grammar, pronunciation, reading, writing, and conversational skills. | | Athena Title: | ELEMENTARY ZULU I | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | YORB(AFAM) 1020. 4 hours. | | Course Title: | Elementary Yoruba II | Course
Description: | A continuation of Elementary Yoruba I. Increased focus on grammar and culture, reading and conversation. | | Athena Title: | ELEM YORUBA II | | Prerequisite: | YORB 1010 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 2000H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to African American Studies (Honors) | Course
Description: | Cultural, social, and historical movements among Americans of African descent. | | Athena Title: | INTR AFRI AMER ST H | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM(HIST) 2000. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to African American Studies | Course
Description: | Cultural, social, and historical movements among Americans of African descent. | | Athena Title: | Intro African American Studies | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ZULU(AFAM) 2001. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Intermediate Zulu I | Course
Description: | Intensive oral and written training in Zulu, with emphasis on fluent conversation skills and comprehension of literature written in Zulu. The structure of the language will be taught directly and indirectly through written texts and oral assignments, tests, midterm and final exams, and computer-assisted exercises, tests. | | Athena Title: | INTERMEDIATE ZULU I | | Prerequisite: | ZULU 1002 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ZULU(AFAM) 2002. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Intermediate Zulu II | Course
Description: | A continuation of Intermediate Zulu I. The course will enhance the student's knowledge of Zulu grammar and culture, build on the vocabulary, and intensive knowledge of elementary literature written in the language. It will also help students to understand the interrelationship among language structure, culture, and history of the Zulu speaking people. | | Athena Title: | INTERMED ZULU II | | Prerequisite: | ZULU(AFAM) 2001 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(AFAM) 2005. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Religions: An Introduction | Course
Description: | Major and selected contemporary religious groups and movements among African Americans. | | Athena Title: | INTRO AFRCN AM REL | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | YORB(AFAM) 2010. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Intermediate Yoruba I | Course
Description: | Focus on developing fluency in spoken and written Yoruba. Oral work geared towards building effective communication in day-to-day situations and functional tasks. Readings in authentic Yoruban texts of increasing complexity. Advanced cultural discussion. | | Athena Title: | INTERMED YORUBA I | | Prerequisite: | YORB(AFAM) 1020 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 2020. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Society | Course
Description: | The class, status, and power relations of African Americans as part of both the United States social structure and the African diaspora. | | Athena Title: | AFRICAN AM SOCIETY | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | MUSI(AFST)(AFAM) 2080. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Music | Course
Description: | A survey of musical styles created and/or developed by African
Americans in North America from c. 17th century to the 21st
century. Includes socio-cultural approach drawing from the
African heritage to other continental appropriations. Key
personalities in the development of the African American music
culture and their contributions will also be examined. | | Athena Title: | African American Music | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in MUSI 2080E, AFST 2080E, AFAM 2080E | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | MUSI(AFST)(AFAM) 2080E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Music | Course
Description: | A survey of musical styles created and/or developed by African
Americans in North America from the 17th century to the 21st
century. Includes a socio-cultural approach drawing from the
African heritage to other continental appropriations. Key
personalities in the development of the African American music
culture and their contributions will also be examined. | | Athena Title: | African American Music | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in MUSI 2080, AFST 2080, AFAM 2080 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | FILM(AFAM) 2130. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | American Directors of Color | Course
Description: | Cultural history of the most important ethnic film makers in the American cinema from the 1920's to the present, with emphasis on stories and styles of the films, as well as on the underlying economic and social contexts. | | Athena Title: | American Directors of Color | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | PSYC(AFAM) 2150. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Understanding Cultural Diversity | Course
Description: | Cross-cultural psychology, including an examination of issues such as conformity, leadership, and attributional style as they vary across different cultures, with consideration of their implications for the emerging world. | | Athena Title: | Understand Cultural Diversity | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in PSYC 2150E | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | CMLT(AFAM) 2600. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Multicultural Black Diaspora Literature | Course
Description: | Multicultural literature of the world-wide dispersion of Africans and people of African descent based on select representative works of African-American, African-Caribbean, and African literature. | | Athena Title: | BLACK DIASPORA LIT | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 2820H. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race and Ethnicity in America (Honors) | Course
Description: | The causes and consequences of race and ethnic discrimination in America, with a focus on ethnic competition and conflict. | | Athena Title: | Race and Ethnicity America Hon | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in SOCI 2820, AFAM 2820 | | Prerequisite: | Permission of Honors | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 2820. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race and Ethnicity in America | Course
Description: | The causes and consequences of race and ethnic discrimination in America, with a focus on ethnic competition and conflict. | | Athena Title: | Race and Ethnicity in America | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in SOCI 2820H, AFAM 2820H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | MUSI(AFAM) 2960. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | African American Percussive Music: From Africa to the Americas | Course
Description: | Traditional and contemporary African American percussion music beginning with its African heritage and tracking its development throughout the Americas, with particular emphasis on the United States. Teaching/learning strategies include in-class performance, demonstrations, audiovisuals, and lectures. No previous music performance background is required. | | Athena Title: | AFR AM PERC MUS | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(AFAM) 3000. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Bible in the Third World | Course
Description: | Interpretations of the Bible in Africa, Asia, Central and South America and the influence upon minority communities in the United States. | | Athena Title: | BIBLE THIRD WORLD | | Prerequisite: | RELI 1001 or RELI 1002 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 3005. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race, Technology, and the Body | Course
Description: | This course uses sociological approaches and popular films to examine theories and concepts relating to race, technology, and the body. Topics include beauty, reproduction, work, labor, sports, surveillance, policing, and new media. | | Athena Title: | Race Technology and the Body | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 3101. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Early African American Experience | Course
Description: | The African background of African Americans, the institution of slavery, the development of the African American community institutions, and African American participation in and impact on the Civil War and Reconstruction. | | Athena Title: | EARLY AFR AME EXPER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 3102. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Modern African American Experience | Course
Description: | The twentieth-century struggle for civil rights, black identity, and self-determination. The response to industrialism and urbanization. The role of black institutions and political organizations. The philosophy and tactics of accommodation, integration, and separatism. | | Athena Title: | MOD AFR AMER EXPER | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM)(WMST) 3103. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Women’s History | Course
Description: | An examination of the history of African American women from the colonial period through to the present. Topics covered include enslavement, the relationship between Black and white women from the antebellum period through second-wave feminism, and Black women in the civil rights and Black Power movements. | | Athena Title: | African American Women's Hist | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or AFAM or WMST or AFST or POLS or INTL or RELI or ENGL course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 3230. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Development of African American Literature | Course
Description: | African American literature since 1773, particularly 1830 to the present: Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Dorothy West, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Childress, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, and August Wilson, including diverse voices rooted in the folk origins for literary forms.
| | Athena Title: | Develop African American Lit | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 3300. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Global Perspectives on Racism and Sexism | Course
Description: | Race and gender relations and discrimination around the globe; the origins and practice of race and gender domination and empowerment in the Americas, Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Pacific Rim. | | Athena Title: | GLOBL RACISM/SEXISM | | Prerequisite: | SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101H or SOCI 2600 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 3310. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race and Culture | Course
Description: | Evolution of cultures among racial groups as part of, and in contrast to, Western civilization. Particular attention is given to the ways race and culture intersect to provide styles, practices, and patterns of living for individuals in contemporary society. | | Athena Title: | RACE AND CULTURE | | Prerequisite: | SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101H or SOCI 2600 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 3480. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Literature and the Black Atlantic | Course
Description: | A survey of literature related to the long history of the Black Atlantic, with an emphasis on issues of slavery, the slave trade, race, empire, colonialism, and postcolonialism. | | Athena Title: | Literature and Black Atlantic | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1102E or ENGL 1103 or ENGL 1050H or ENGL 1060H | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | KINS(AFAM) 3580. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Sport and the Black Culture | Course
Description: | A cultural analysis of sport and Black cultures. Evolution of
sport as a cultural expression in Black communities. Historical
patterns and current conditions of Blacks' participation in
sport. | | Athena Title: | Sport and the Black Culture | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM)(WMST) 3650. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colorism and Hairism in Communities of Color | Course
Description: | We will use empirical data to analyze how inter- and intra-racial discrimination based on skin color and hairstyles are forms of discrimination apparent in virtually every social institution, such as marriage rates, media, imprisonment, holding political office, educational attainment, wages, and more. | | Athena Title: | Colorism and Hairism | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | COMM(AFAM) 3820. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Ethnicity-Race Communication | Course
Description: | An applied approach to understanding the significance of ethnicity-race in communication in Western Society. The societal influences of history, language, and mass media in shaping our knowledge and understanding of race and ethnicity, as well as positive interracial relationships. | | Athena Title: | Ethnicity-Race Communication | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 3880. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Folklore | Course
Description: | African American folk expressions: their functions and their relationships with folk expressions of other peoples. Folk speech (proverbs, riddles, signifying, playing the dozens), folk narrative (animal tales, slave stories, modern legends, jokes, toasts, rap songs), folk songs (African songs, gospel songs, work songs, ballads, blues songs). | | Athena Title: | AFRICAN AM FOLKLORE | | Prerequisite: | ENGL 3010 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SWAH(AFAM) 3990. 1-3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Study in Swahili Language and Literature | Course
Description: | Independent study and research in Swahili language and literature under the direction of individual faculty members. Focus on reading and analysis of Swahili literary writings (including works in translation). | | Athena Title: | DIRECTED STUDY | | Nontraditional Format: | Directed study. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall and spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4000S/6000S. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Service-Learning and Community Engagement | Course
Description: | Through programs developed for local community outreach centers
(such as the Boys and Girls Club of Athens), students explore
the process of becoming self in a community context by using
reading, writing, and performance exercises, plus the crafting
of a community performance. | | Athena Title: | AFAM SVC LEARN | | Nontraditional Format: | Course includes a service-learning project during the semester
that either employs skills or knowledge learned in the course
or teaches new skills or knowledge related to course
objectives. Students will be involved in the planning and
implementation of the project(s) and may spend time outside of
the classroom. Students will be engaged in the service-learning
component for approximately 50-75% of overall instructional
time. A ten-week portion of the course is dedicated primarily
to an outreach program that would be conducted off-campus two
out of three class sessions per week. | | Prerequisite: | AFAM 2000 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LING(AFAM) 4015/6015. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language, Race, and Ethnicity in the U.S. | Course
Description: | Examination of the connection between language, race, and
ethnicity in the United States. Study of the origins of current
ethnolects in the United States, linguistic ideologies that
shape attitudes towards them, and structural factors that affect
their current patterns and possible future change. | | Athena Title: | Language Race Ethnicity in US | | Prerequisite: | LING 3060 or LING 3150 or LING 3150W or LING 3250 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 4032/6032. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Black Skin, White Walls: African Americans and the Museum | Course
Description: | Examination of the history of African Americans’ relationship to both art and natural history museums. Topics will include protest, institution building, and art collecting. Through a combination of museum sociology, art history, and Black history, students will gain a clearer understanding of the politics of art. | | Athena Title: | African Americans & the Museum | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any AFAM or ARHI or ARTS or HIPR or HIST or CMLT or CLAS or POLS or SOCI or PSYC or COMM course | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(LING)(AFAM) 4040. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language Use in the African American Community | Course
Description: | History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society. | | Athena Title: | AFR AMER LANG USE | | Prerequisite: | ENGL(LING) 3030 or ENGL(LING) 4005/6005 or LING 2100 | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | LING(AFAM)(ENGL) 4050/6050. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Structure of African American English | Course
Description: | Discussion and analysis of the phonological, morphological,
lexical, discourse, and syntactic structures of African American
English and their interaction as the grammatical system of
language use in the African American community. | | Athena Title: | STRUCTURE OF AAE | | Prerequisite: | LING 2100 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 4055/6055. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Historical Survey of African American Thought | Course
Description: | This course examines representative works of such nineteenth- and twentieth-century social, cultural, and political thinkers as Frederick Douglass, Cornel West, Anna J. Cooper, and Angela Davis among other outstanding women and men who have contributed significantly to the intellectual life of the African American community. | | Athena Title: | African American Thought | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST 4055H | | Pre or Corequisite: | Any HIST or AFAM or PHIL or HONS course | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | WMST(AFAM) 4060/6060. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Black Feminism | Course
Description: | Examination of the ideas and practices of black feminists and
womanists. Students will examine African communities within the
diaspora, particularly the historical and contemporary debates
of black women in the United States, including black womanhood,
sexual mythologies and vulnerabilities, class distinctions, and
the origins of black feminist thought. | | Athena Title: | BLACK FEMINISM | | Prerequisite: | WMST 4010/6010 | | Pre or Corequisite: | WMST 1110 or WMST 2010 or permission of department | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM(PSYC)(ECHD) 4170/6170. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Introduction to Black Psychology | Course
Description: | Deconstruction of traditional thought, behavior, and development as well as reconstruction of the same on contemporary terms; testing of nuances and varieties of multicultural and indigenous models. The designs and projected future of the Black Psychology Movement. | | Athena Title: | Intro to Black Psychology | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(AFAM) 4201/6201. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Religious History | Course
Description: | The religious traditions of African Americans from Colonial times to the present; major religious movements, personalities, and ideas and their relationship to various aspects of American culture. | | Athena Title: | AFRCN AM REL HIST | | Prerequisite: | Junior or senior standing or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(AFAM) 4202/6202. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Southern Religious History | Course
Description: | The origins, growth, and current practices of religion in the American South. The interaction between religion and other aspects of Southern culture, such as racial and gender concerns, education, Darwinian science, temperance, and politics. | | Athena Title: | SOUTHERN REL HIST | | Prerequisite: | Junior or senior standing or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | RELI(AFAM) 4203/6203. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Bible in the Black Church | Course
Description: | Biblical interpretation in black America from 1865 to the present. | | Athena Title: | BIBLE BLACK CHURCH | | Prerequisite: | Junior or senior standing or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4250. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 15 hours credit. | | Course Title: | African American Seminar | Course
Description: | Examination of a designated topic in the field of African American Studies. The course is interdisciplinary, but may also focus on the instructor of record's primary discipline and/or area of scholarship. | | Athena Title: | African American Seminar | | Prerequisite: | AFAM 2000 | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | CMLT(AFAM)(AFST)(GEOG)(LACS) 4260/6260. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | The Black and Green Atlantic: Crosscurrents of the African and Irish Diasporas | Course
Description: | An exploration of the comparative dimensions of Black and Irish
experiences in the Atlantic world through the study of cultural
production from the United States, Africa, Britain, the
Caribbean, and Ireland. Special emphasis will be placed on the
relevance of the texts under discussion to contemporary society
around the world. | | Athena Title: | The Black and Green Atlantic | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 4370. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Seminar in Race and Ethnicity | Course
Description: | Special topics in race and ethnicity for advanced undergraduates. | | Athena Title: | SEM RACE/ETHNICITY | | Prerequisite: | SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101H or SOCI 2600 or permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4470. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Eighteenth Century Literature and the Black Atlantic | Course
Description: | An examination of eighteenth-century British literature with an emphasis on issues of slavery, race, empire, colonialism, and multiculturalism in the Atlantic world. Authors will likely include Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley Peters, Mary Prince, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, Samuel Johnson, Hannah More, and William Blake. | | Athena Title: | 18th Cent Lit Black Atlantic | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | THEA(AFAM) 4480/6480. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | History of African American Drama and Theatre | Course
Description: | The emergence of a distinct and conscious African American theatre in the United States. | | Athena Title: | Hist African Amer Dram Theater | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM(PSYC) 4500E/6500E. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Psychology of Prejudice | Course
Description: | Motivational, cognitive, social, and cultural factors that lead
to discrimination in our society and various perspectives found
in the research on discrimination. | | Athena Title: | PSYCH OF PREJUDICE | | Prerequisite: | (PSYC 1101 or SOCI 1101) and fourth-year student standing | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM(PSYC) 4500/6500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Psychology of Prejudice | Course
Description: | Motivational, cognitive, social, and cultural factors that lead to discrimination in our society and various perspectives found in the research on discrimination. | | Athena Title: | PSYCH OF PREJUDICE | | Prerequisite: | (PSYC 1101 or SOCI 1101) and senior standing | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM(SOCI) 4580. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Sociology and Health | Course
Description: | The qualitative and quantitative methods for best assessing the
functions of significant issues of performance and social
interaction within contemporary African American culture,
including, in some instances, the impact on health professions
and the theory and delivery of health services. Some topics
covered will have slightly more of a cultural implication,
replete with systematic analysis; others will take on more of a
practice in services. | | Athena Title: | Topics Afri Amer Soci and Hlth | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in SOCI 4600, AFAM 4600 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 4600. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Health Among Black Americans | Course
Description: | A within ethnoracial group approach to illuminate how social factors contribute to health among self-identified Blacks in the United States. The course will utilize theory and evidence from sociology, biodemography, epidemiology, and psychology to introduce students to health disparities research among aging Blacks in the United States. | | Athena Title: | Health Among Black Americans | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in AFAM 4580, SOCI 4580 | | Prerequisite: | SOCI 1101 or SOCI 1101E or SOCI 1101H or permission of department | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4620. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Poetry | Course
Description: | African American poetry from the colonial period to the present, including slave and folk songs of the mid-nineteenth century, the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920's, and contemporary poetry. Emphasis on such figures as Langston Hughes, Margaret Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, Kevin Young, and others. | | Athena Title: | African American Poetry | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4630. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Fiction | Course
Description: | Important African American stories and novels from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including works by such authors as Frances Harper, Jean Toomer, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, and Toni Morrison. | | Athena Title: | African American Fiction | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | COMM(AFAM) 4830/6830. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Ethnicity-Race and Close Relationships | Course
Description: | Interpersonal communication and how ethnicity-race impacts our understanding of race, discrimination, and racism in close relationships. Historical, sociological, and psychological factors that affect individual relationships, including interracial relationships, homogamy, and friendships. | | Athena Title: | Ethnicity Race Close Relations | | Prerequisite: | COMM 1500 or COMM 3700 or AFAM 2000 or PSYC (AFAM) 2150 or AFAM(PSYC) 3150 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | COMM(AFAM) 4840/6840. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Ethnicity, Race, and Family Communication | Course
Description: | Perspectives on race, ethnicity, and the family. Focuses on how these three areas function as social institutions, how people are socialized to think and communicate about race and ethnicity, as well as how to engage in communication as a way to enact social change and overcome difference, particularly in families. | | Athena Title: | Ethnicity Race and Family | | Pre or Corequisite: | AFAM 2000 or PSYC(AFAM) 2150 or AFAM(PSYC) 3150 or COMM 1500 | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4850. 3-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Major Projects in African American Studies | Course
Description: | An independent directed course for advanced undergraduate students with a major interdisciplinary project that goes beyond the disciplinary boundaries of a traditional department. The student has two major projects, one each for Georgia State Leadership, through the Fanning Center, and the Washington Center's Minority Leadership Fellowship Program. | | Athena Title: | DIR MAJ PROJ AAM | | Nontraditional Format: | Besides a 20 page paper of revised excellence, a practicum for the project (two months study in The Washington Center's Minority Leader Fellowship Program, for example) will complete a very rigorous enrichment through out-of-class learning. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM(ROML) 4860/6860. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in Afro-Hispanic Identity | Course
Description: | Representations of Africa and African American culture in Hispanic Literature by writers of African descent. By covering a variety of genres, the course will provide discussion about a cultural identity that is constantly in dialogue with dominant discourses. The course will incorporate critical texts. | | Athena Title: | AFR HISPANIC IDENT | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4880. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics in African American literature such as African American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, and Black American literature and aesthetics. | | Athena Title: | Topics in African American Lit | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4880E, AFAM 4880E | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 4880E. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics in African American literature, such as African
American autobiography, Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks
and Richard Wright, and Black American literature and
aesthetics. | | Athena Title: | Topics in African American Lit | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in ENGL 4880, AFAM 4880 | | Nontraditional Format: | This course will be taught 95% or more online. | | Prerequisite: | Two 2000-level ENGL courses or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 3000-level ENGL course) or (one 2000-level ENGL course and one 2000-level CMLT course) | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4960R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 16 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research I | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research I | | Nontraditional Format: | This course belongs to a progressive research course sequence to
promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability.
This course requires the close supervision of a faculty member
as the student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4970R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research II | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research II | | Nontraditional Format: | These courses belong to a progressive research course sequence
to promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability. The
courses require the close supervision of a faculty member as the
student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4980R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Faculty-Mentored Undergraduate Research III | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data and
to present results in writing and other relevant communication
formats. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Research III | | Nontraditional Format: | These courses belong to a progressive research course sequence
to promote a student's increasing skill development and depth of
inquiry, as well as growing independent research capability. The
courses require the close supervision of a faculty member as the
student undertakes a systematic and in-depth inquiry into
unknown, fundamental, and applied problems. In some cases, the
student will work collaboratively as part of a research team.
The student will have to apply understanding of the discipline
to identify or shape research questions and apply skills and
techniques learned to the research project. Students will gather
data, synthesize relevant literature, analyze, and interpret
data. The student will present results in writing or through
participation in research-group or program meetings and meetings
with their faculty mentor. The student will receive feedback
from the faculty mentor on their research progress and written
or oral presentation of results. A minimum of 45 hours of work
per credit hour per semester is required. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 4990R. 1-6 hours. Repeatable for maximum 8 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Undergraduate Research Thesis (or Final Project) | Course
Description: | Faculty-supervised independent or collaborative inquiry into
fundamental and applied problems within a discipline that requires
students to gather, analyze, and synthesize and interpret data.
Students will write or produce a thesis or other professional
capstone product, such as a report or portfolio that describes
their systematic and in-depth inquiry. | | Athena Title: | Undergraduate Thesis | | Nontraditional Format: | This is a capstone course under the direct supervision of a
faculty member. This course may be the culmination of the 4960R-
4980R sequence. Students will write a thesis or other
professional capstone product, such as a report or portfolio,
that describes their systematic and in-depth inquiry into an
unknown, fundamental, or applied problem. The thesis or capstone
product is written in close collaboration with the faculty
member and must be approved by that faculty member and/or the
department. The student will apply understanding of the
discipline to identify or shape the research question and apply
skills and techniques learned to complete the research project.
The student will have gathered data, synthesized relevant
literature and materials, analyzed, and interpreted data. The
student will demonstrate in writing the contribution of their
work to the discovery and interpretation of knowledge
significant to their field of study. The student will have
presented results in the form of a properly formatted,
professionally rigorous thesis document or other appropriate
professional capstone product and through the formal
presentation of the thesis or product to faculty and peers
during an approved event. The student will receive feedback from
the faculty member on the overall execution of their thesis
project, the written thesis, and their presentation. | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered fall, spring and summer semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM)(LING) 6040. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Language Use in the African American Community | Course
Description: | History and structure of the speech and language styles used in the African American community; examination of linguistic and cultural issues that confront the majority of African Americans; the role of the vernacular language of African Americans in society. | | Athena Title: | AFR AM LANG USE | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 6250. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | African American Seminar | Course
Description: | Examination of a designated topic in the field of African
American Studies. The course is interdisciplinary, but may also
focus on the instructor of record's primary discipline and/or
area of scholarship. | | Athena Title: | African American Seminar | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 6770. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 6 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Topics in African American Literature | Course
Description: | Selected topics in African American literature, such as autobiography, the Harlem Renaissance, Gwendolyn Brooks and Richard Wright, Black American literature and aesthetics. | | Athena Title: | AFRICAN AM TOPICS | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every odd-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 7500. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Graduate Introduction to African American Studies | Course
Description: | History of and current discourse on African American Studies as
a discipline encompassing the study of the African diaspora in
the Americas, while examining fundamental concepts, research
methodologies, and tools of analysis that inform the field.
Course is required for the certificate in African American
Studies. | | Athena Title: | GRAD INTRO AFAM | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 7770. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Teaching Practicum in African American Studies | Course
Description: | A practicum in the teaching of African American Studies. It
blends instructional techniques particular to African American
Studies with useful general pedagogical information. | | Athena Title: | Teaching Practicum in AFAM | | Nontraditional Format: | Required for any graduate student seeking a graduate
certificate or a TA assignment in African American Studies. | | Pre or Corequisite: | AFAM 7500 | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | HIST(AFAM) 8005. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Colloquium in African American History | Course
Description: | Exploration of the rich and varied scholarship constituting the
field of African American History. Examination of both the
historical content of the assigned books and articles and the
historiography. Possible topics include the Civil Rights
Movement, United States Slavery, Black Feminism, Historical
Memory, and Black Women in Nineteenth-Century America. | | Athena Title: | COLLOQ IN AFAM HIST | | Equivalent Courses: | Not open to students with credit in HIST(AFAM) 7010 | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 8350. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Theories of Race and Ethnicity in the U.S. | Course
Description: | Analysis of classical and contemporary theories that have been developed specifically to understand race and ethnicity in the United States. | | Athena Title: | Theories of Race and Ethnicity | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM)(WMST) 8360. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Colorism and Hairism in Communities of Color | Course
Description: | We will use empirical data to analyze how inter- and intra-racial discrimination based on skin color and hairstyles are forms of discrimination apparent in virtually every social institution, such as marriage rates, media, imprisonment, holding political office, educational attainment, wages, and more. | | Athena Title: | Colorism and Hairism | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 8370. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Sociology of Race and Ethnicity | Course
Description: | The relationships of racial and ethnic groups with each other and with social institutions and processes. | | Athena Title: | Sociology Race and Ethnicity | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered every year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 8380. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Health Among Black Americans | Course
Description: | A within ethnoracial group approach to illuminate how social factors contribute to health among self-identified Blacks in the United States. The course will utilize theory and evidence from sociology, biodemography, epidemiology, and psychology to introduce students to health disparities research among aging Blacks in the United States. | | Athena Title: | Health Among Black Americans | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | ENGL(AFAM) 8720. 3 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Seminar in African American Literature | Course
Description: | A detailed examination of selected forms and ideas in the African American tradition. | | Athena Title: | AFRICAN AM SEM | | Prerequisite: | Permission of department | Semester Course
Offered: | Offered spring semester every even-numbered year. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | SOCI(AFAM) 8740. 3 hours. | | Course Title: | Race, Media, and Culture | Course
Description: | Sociological and cultural studies approaches to examine race and racism within media and culture industries. Topics include production, distribution, and consumption processes; structure of media organizations; assignment of roles and occupations; analysis of media content and stereotypes; and use of new media technologies. | | Athena Title: | Race Media and Culture | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
| | | Course ID: | AFAM 8960. 3-9 hours. Repeatable for maximum 9 hours credit. | | Course Title: | Directed Reading in African American Studies | Course
Description: | Independent directed reading course for graduate students whose programs of study require courses not available in the regular schedule. It makes the interdisciplinary study of African American culture and theory accessible to students who in traditional departments need to ground their inquiry in a broader context. | | Athena Title: | DIRECTED READING | | Nontraditional Format: | The course will usually require a 20-25 page paper of publishable quality. The reading list will be approximately eight full-length books and 6-25 journal articles and chapters. | Semester Course
Offered: | Not offered on a regular basis. | | Grading System: | A-F (Traditional) |
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