The wide selection of required and elective courses in AAADS provides students the opportunity to shape a course of study best suited to their goals. Courses include topics from race studies, history, sociology, culture, arts, dance, literature, theater, political science, film, music, and much more.
The culture of Blacks in America viewed from a broad interdisciplinary approach, employing resources from history, literature, folklore, religion, sociology, and political science. This course is required for the major.
This course uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine salient aspects of Black women’s history, identity, and experience—including the intersections of race, gender, and class factors in both historical and contemporary settings. While the primary focus is North America, other cultural settings in the African Diaspora are also represented. Much of the first part of the course is grounded in the historical discussion of the roles and forces that helped to shape Black women as social and cultural beings. The course also examines important contemporary issues and challenges that confront Black women and their families
A481 explores contemporary racial problems in American society with regard to law and constitutional principles of basic freedoms and associated conflicts. Effects of societal norms and impact of racism.
A355 examines social, cultural, economic, and political developments as well as others activities and events that shaped evolving African termed (Afro) African Americans existences from early African Civilizations through the Atlantic Slave Trade, Colonial America, and the Civil War.
A356 examines the history of African Americans from Reconstruction to the present, with attention given to migration north, founding of the NAACP, Harlem Renaissance, postwar freedom movement to the present.
The College of Arts